Paws4Minds

25/12/2025

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas..We hope you have had a lovely day 🌲🎁🎅

01/12/2025

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29/11/2025

During Friday afternoons we then travel to driffield to support students of Driffield School Driffield East Yorkshire

29/11/2025

Noodle knows where he is going and leads the way on a Friday morning.

We enjoy our time visiting Frederick Gough School, Bottersford

26/11/2025

This afternoo Noodle is going to visit Sirius West School in Hull.

I have already met staff and we discussed ideas in supporting students, staff and parents with Noodle and also workshops.

Today Noodle is going to introduce himself to the staff.

We are now supporting 3 schools in East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire.

The areas that I am passionate about supporting are mental health, wellbeing & trauma.

Noodle is so good in supporting people, helping to lower their defensive barriers and enabling them to open up

22/11/2025

It's not just children that enjoy Noodles company when he visits schools. Staff love spending time with him too.

People forget about staff in schools. Their mental health and wellbeing needs are crucial too.

Teachers, teaching assistants, clerical staff and other roles within schools are facing so many daily challenges. Often they are the ones in the front line, trying to support children's mental health & the needs.of neuro diverse minds.

Educational staff are now the stop gap between the services so many children need.

Imagine working in a classroom with 30+ children. In the past it was expected everyone should learn the same thing, at the same space in a standard environment.

Now imagine, you are in a classroom as a 13 year old. You are quiet and shy in personality. You like routine, things to be the same and happening in the same way at the same time. You struggle with noise, movement, space arrangement and your mind can't focus with distractions.

Now imagine that you struggle to sit still, you need to move, you struggle to concentrate and your mind races with ideas and you want to tell the world what you know, see and hear. You want to run about as you have a surge of energy and enjoy expressing yourself with words and enjoy making people laugh.

Then imagine feeling sad all the time. Nothing makes you happy. The lessons drag and you dread waking up, you dread walking to school, you dread sitting with other people and the worry of being asked if you are ok, how you are feeling or what you think or know.

Factor in a child who may suffer from trauma. They are in fight, flight or simply fall down and flop on the floor. The slightest thing could trigger them as their body is in a fight for survival. Outside of school they are seeing, hearing and being treated in ways no one should be treated. They are seen as naughty by the world but you have that gut feeling, there is something much more than just misbehaving.

This could be just one classroom. Then factor all the demands from the school management, parents, local authorities, governments and those services in between.
Noodle goes in, he takes people's minds away from thinking about what has happened, what is going to happen. He adapts to different children. He goes in and leads the way.

He promotes curiosity, to help lower barriers, develop bonds, promote trust & provide unconditional love

Noodle has had 14 children with a range of diverse minds, sit still, listen and ask fantastic questions & the staff were amazed & full of praise. Imagine having Noodle as a tool in your schools armoury at regular times in supporting groups or individual children

Paws4Minds Noodle: Wellbeing Support Dog

Working alongside,Noodle our therapy dog/wellbeing support dog, Paws4Minds provide Mental Health Awareness, support, coaching & education for organisations & individuals

18/11/2025

today I start a two day course today.

Already completed the one day trauma informed course.

An area I am passionate about and will be able to support so many people in the future.

13/11/2025

Today we attended a VCSE workshop hosted by The HEY Smile Foundation.

Noodle received plenty of attention & fuss & with so many positive comments about how he behaved.

The workshop was great and we discussed diversity, inclusiveness, how to improve online presence for organisations and more.

08/11/2025

Paws4Minds we Frederick Gough Secondary School in Scunthorpe.

Noodle supports children who are not in the mainstream classrooms.

This school is fantastic. The whole ethos and positivity shines through from the headteacher.

The staff in the area of the school we support are so impressed with Noodle. It was requested from day one, Noodle had free reign, he leads the sessions with children and wow what a difference.

The children I have seen manage and regulate their emotions with Noodle around. He helps them to relax, much of it is subconscious.

I've seen barriers come down which is huge as some have been let down or hurt by people who they should have been able to trust.

We have individuals, who wind each other up and have to be kept apart, actually behave calmer, civilised and friendly to each other with Noodle around.

Many adults expect this to be normal but for me to see this, was huge. It was obvious the cortisol levels were lower helping them to be at ease and relaxed.

They enjoy moving about, playing fetch with Noodle, once they have done this I notice they then sit with him, fussing him and we are able to chat about random things like football. One is a huge Scunny fan and we have some great friendly banter and insightful discussions about form, tactics of our teams as well as other teams such as England.

There is no way on this planet teenagers who don't know me, would relax and chat with me and the staff without Noodle, he provides a natural gateway and opening for the children to open up.

I really enjoy my job. Narrowing down my focus towards stress and trauma has benefited myself in our roles too.

30/10/2025

Yesterday we were supporting Waterloo Manor Hospital in Garforth, near Leeds.

It's a mental health hospital for women. These ladies are having a tough time and Noodle went there and provided lots of smiles, laughs and cuddles too.

One patient told me, Noodle had made her day, which was lovely to hear



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26/10/2025

So pleased to see our hardwork is starting to pay off.

We are working with some fantastic organisations and we making a real difference.

Often what we think is relatively insignificant to us, actually means so much and makes a huge difference to these individuals

We are supporting staff at a school in Northern Lincolnshire,providing support for children who are not in the mainstream classrooms & some are classed as at risk. These are vulnerable teenagers, many live in chaotic environments and the ones they should be able to trust cause the most risk 😟

We support children at Inspire CAMHS with monthly visits.

We are now supporting a Mental Health hospital in West Yorkshire.

We work with Hull College throughout the year attending events & exam days

We start visiting a primary school in Hull from December and a secondary school going through their processes to have us on board too.

We support a Rehab centre in Hull, helping those with addictions.

Also some local charities we visit and Noodle has made friends with their users too.

All this is down to Noodle and in time I will be adding courses, workshops both on line and in person, providing mental health awareness and wellbeing support.

Many of these will have Noodle in attendance when we are in person too