What do we do to Promote Positive Mental Health and Wellbeing?

  • We are a nurturing, calm and purposeful environment where children can be themselves. Wellbeing displays and areas are within every classroom. These areas include regular mindfulness activities, stories and opportunities to reflect.
  • We have different outdoor spaces we can use. Outdoor learning and exercise is a high priority as many links have been made between outdoor learning and positive mental health.
  • Through our curriculum, workshops and a qualified life coach we teach children about who they are and who they want to be.
  • We celebrate and raise awareness for Mental Health through charities.
  • The school has a Well-Being Coffee morning for our community.
  • Our children are aware that they can talk to any teachers if they have any worries or concerns.
  • Our school also has Well Being Champions who are there to offer support and guidance for our children. Every Wednesday the children take their well-being bags to offer support to any child.
  • We have raised money and provided ‘Buddy Benches’ to tackle loneliness and to look out for each other.
  • We have a therapy dog coming into school each week to see the children.
  • Staff are aware that we have a life coach and they are able to speak to her if needed. Staff have also been made aware through emails about counsellors they can speak too.
  • We have achieved the Well Being Award that recognises all that we do as a school for our community.

What is the Well-Being Award?

Well–Being is defined as “the state of being comfortable, happy or healthy”. Well-being is so much more than this definition, it is inevitably a person’s sense of self on how they feel about their own life, personal development and their purpose.

Principles Behind the Award

There are four key principles driving the ideas and recommendations behind the award:

  1. Emotional wellbeing and mental health are a continuum. Related issues can range from positive attitudes and behaviour, through to experiences of emotional distress and mental disorder.
  2. Schools already experience and manage emotional issues on a daily basis; the objective is to minimise the impact of such issues and maximise the effectiveness of any responses.
  3. Emotional wellbeing covers a range of dimensions, such as resilience, character building, relationships and self-esteem, etc. Understanding both developmental and mental health awareness is critical.
  4. Creating a positive school culture requires a whole-school approach that is led from the top while involving all in the school community.

Well-Being Champions

Our Well-Being Champions have played a vital part in the Well-Being Award for Schools. They work hard to develop pupils’ confidence, resilience and knowledge so that they can keep themselves mentally and physically healthy. Their role is primarily at lunchtimes where they are available as ‘buddies’ for their peers.

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