Health & Wellbeing
Health and Wellbeing
Emotional Resilience
Emotional resilience is the ability to manage feelings and cope with day-to-day stresses as well as major life events. Deanery recognises that children will experience a range of feelings, both positive and negative, such as excitement, anticipation, frustration and disappointment. Our aim is to equip children with the necessary tools to deal with different experiences as they grow and develop and to prepare children to help them to feel good and function well. All staff are seeking to build upon pupil’s emotional resilience by providing opportunities in everyday learning to explore problem-solving activities, develop relationships with peers and take risks.
The well-rounded child: Here are some of our recent experiences.
- Staff have recently taken part in school INSET ‘Mental Health Awareness’ training.
- The ‘well-rounded child’ is a key focus for Deanery and our aim is to provide pupils with opportunities to develop the ‘whole child’. The introduction of ‘Enrichment afternoons’ has been highly successful with positive feedback from pupils, parents and staff.
- Pupil leadership has also given pupils a sense of ownership and motivation to shape how the school is run. Children have completed a children’s SEF with ideas to shape their learning.
- All children are taking part in the ‘Only One You’ project, which provides powerful messages to promote self-esteem and celebration of life. Pupils have painted a stone and used positive affirmations to decorate their stones. They will create points of interest along our new path, which has also been built to encourage children to be active, and increase children’s health and wellbeing.
- The ‘Resilience Team’ are made up of class representatives from Year 2 – Year 6 and they are currently working on creating self-soothing boxes for their own classes and developing the benefits of ‘Golden Time’.
- Year 4 have taken part in a half-termly programme of Yoga during the Spring Term. Pupils gave positive feedback that can be accessed on the school blog.
- Key Stage 2 are currently taking part in 2-hour ‘Health and wellbeing’ workshops, which address various aspects of keeping our bodies and our minds healthy.
