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Well Being

The document discusses the importance of health and wellbeing in schools. It defines health and wellbeing as encompassing both physical and mental health. Schools play an important role in promoting students' health and wellbeing as it is linked to academic performance. The curriculum framework addresses students' mental, emotional, social, and physical wellbeing through topics like relationships, substance abuse, and physical activity. At Fox Covert school, health and wellbeing is promoted through a whole-school approach including lessons, activities, and the Jigsaw program which teaches self-awareness and regulation.

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Well Being

The document discusses the importance of health and wellbeing in schools. It defines health and wellbeing as encompassing both physical and mental health. Schools play an important role in promoting students' health and wellbeing as it is linked to academic performance. The curriculum framework addresses students' mental, emotional, social, and physical wellbeing through topics like relationships, substance abuse, and physical activity. At Fox Covert school, health and wellbeing is promoted through a whole-school approach including lessons, activities, and the Jigsaw program which teaches self-awareness and regulation.

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Health and Wellbeing

Health and Wellbeing

 How important is Health and Wellbeing within the curriculum?


 How is it taught in schools?
 What does this involve?
What do we mean by Health and Wellbeing?

 Health and wellbeing includes both physical and mental


health.
 Physical health - sleep, diet (nutrition) and exercise
 Mental Health - the way we think or feel about ourselves
and what is going on around us, and how we cope with the
stresses of life – affects our sense of wellbeing as well as
our physical health
How important is it within our curriculum?

The link between health and


wellbeing and positive academic
performance is well researched.
 Healthy students are more alert, engaged and better able to
concentrate and learn.
 Physical activity is associated with improved learning, concentration,
better mood and behaviour as well as healthy weight.
 An estimated 1 in every 10 children suffer from a diagnosable mental
health problem and that 75% of mental health problems in adults have
roots in childhood.
 An increasing number of children in our schools have anxiety,
depression and phobias, and a
scary number of children now self-harm. Worse still, these disorders
now manifest at earlier ages than ever before.
 Good mental and physical health is vital for learning and living a
fulfilling life!
Nature or Nurture?
 The "nature vs nurture" debate. Is a child’s fate in terms
of their learning, intelligence and physical and mental
health already predetermined before they are even born?
 A child’s environment and genetic makeup are
intertwined. There is a continuous and complex interaction
between the two.
 Studies have shown, along with intelligence, our conscious
thinking and the way we deal with a situation can, over
time, result in our brain re-wiring itself so that we change
the way we react subconsciously in the first place. This
means our resilience (amongst many other things) is not
fixed. We can build the ability to be resilient through our
own positive thinking.
So who can help to build resilience
and positive thinking?
Whose responsibility is it to ensure
a child’s physical and mental
health needs are met?
Parents/Carers?
Or
Schools/Teachers?
BOTH!
Like nature vs nurture both are intertwined. What
you do at home AND what we do at school will
shape how they face life now and in the future.
What does the Curriculum say?

 Curriculum for Excellence has an important


role to play in promoting the health and
wellbeing of children and young people and
of all of those in the educational
communities to which they belong.
What are the main purposes of learning in
health and wellbeing?
 Learning in health and wellbeing ensures that children and young people
develop the knowledge and understanding, skills, capabilities and attributes
which they need for mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing now
and in the future.
Childhood and adolescence are critical periods for developing attitudes, skills
and knowledge for living a healthy life.
Schools inform choices and deepen understanding of what constitutes good
healthy choices.
Schools present learning opportunities that build upon family/cultural
experiences and allow for critical analysis of the media, advertising and peer
conformity.
Schools have a responsibility to teach, model, build behaviour practices and
implement curriculum requirements that support a learning environment
where the connection of learning about health and wellbeing is supported by
a whole school approach.
How is the Health and Wellbeing framework
structured?

 The statements of experiences and outcomes are then


structured into the following organisers:
1.  Mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing
2.  Planning for choices and changes
3.  Physical education, physical activity and sport
4.  Food and health
5.  Substance misuse
6.  Relationships, sexual health and parenthood.
Health and Wellbeing at Fox Covert

 At Fox Covert we have a whole school ethos and approach


to Health and Wellbeing. Our aim is to provide a safe and
supportive environment, building skills and resilience, and
a strong sense of contentedness to school.
 Listening to the voice of the child and fostering healthy
relationships with peers, teachers and school staff are
essential to children’s positive experience of school and
their cognitive and emotional development.
The diagram below illustrates this shared
vision and common goal.
How do we implement this?
 Whole School assemblies with a regular Health and Wellbeing focus
 Health Focus weeks
 Physical Activities – Gym, Daily mile, Outdoor Learning
 Staff training
 Outside agencies – Taster sessions: Rugby, Bikeability, Golf
 Individual Teachers – Creating a positive learning environment
within their own classrooms focusing on wellbeing, resilience,
personal responsibility, growth mind-sets, kindness, mindfulness
and gratitude.
 Focus Health and wellbeing Lessons
 Jigsaw Health and Wellbeing
The Jigsaw Approach
 The Jigsaw approach has mindfulness underpinning it. The aim is to teach
children information and skills to empower themselves how to learn and
improve their life-chances later. It teaches them to observe their own
thoughts and feelings, regulate them and make conscious decisions about
their learning, behaviour and lives.
 The Six Puzzles – (Whole school working on the same puzzle at the same
time)
 Being Me in My World
 Celebrating Difference
 Dreams and Goals
 Healthy Me
 Relationships
 Changing Me
Conclusion-

 Healthand Wellbeing is an essential part of the


curriculum and schools play a vital role in the
promotion of positive mental and physical
health in children.
 Goodmental health in childhood provides a
foundation for positive mental health and
wellbeing, now and into the future. 

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