Wellbeing
At Sutton Valence Primary School, we are committed to supporting the emotional health and wellbeing of pupils and staff. We believe that as well as supporting children to be the best they can be academically, it is even more important to support children to be the best they can be both socially and personally. We consider wellbeing to be central to positive learning outcomes and a healthy and happy school experience. Therefore, we embed emotional and behavioural wellbeing and positive relationships throughout school life. This is achieved through various experiences and opportunities such as PSHE, assemblies, circle time, worry boxes and our hugely successful wellbeing weeks.
Through this page you will find examples and information about wellbeing in Sutton Valence Primary School as well as some websites and documents you may find useful.
This term the children have focused on 'Give'and 'Connect'. Through our PSHE lessons, circle times and Anti-Bullying week the children have learnt about friendships, respect and being kind. As part of Anti-bullying week the children have explored 'One Kind Word'. We discussed the effect words can have and how one kind word can go a long way. Each class have made a 'One Kind Word' display to show what kind things we can say.
What Went Well Displays
At the end of each week to promote Wellbeing every class explores “What went well”. There is good research behind it as a valid way to improve wellbeing, to make you feel better about yourself and the world. It’s a form of positive thinking. It is a very specific exercise to recognize and acknowledge three things that went well this week – even if some other things went badly. As part of this we explore what character strengths were involved in these good things such as, curiosity, appreciation, creativity, humour or kindness.
A random act of kindness is a non-premeditated, inconsistent action designed to offer kindness towards the outside world. Please use the blog below to record any acts of kindness that either you have done or you have seen being done. Below are some ideas to get you going.
Random Acts of Kindness
Acts 0f Kindness
Rebecca Parsons (rparsons) on: Random Acts of Kindness
Please write up any random acts of kindness you do yourself or see others doing. Lets make someone's day and spread a smile.
Below are some pictures of the Kindness displays being created around school to promote and encourage children to complete random acts of kindness to each other. Please click on the images to enlarge them.
Lockdown Rainbows
After being back at school following lockdown, we completed a whole school art project reflecting on our lockdown experiences. We looked back at our time at home and what it made us feel like.
We have focused on 6 different emotions (based on the Inside Out characters) and have made a collage of each rainbow colour to represent an emotion that we felt over lockdown:
Red- Anger
Orange- Excitement
Yellow- Joy/happiness
Green- disgust
Blue- Sadness
Purple- Fear
The children in each class have drawn pictures and written words to express these emotions. This has been a good outlet for them to talk about their experiences.
Useful Websites
Go noodle - YouTube
Hundreds of brainercise, dancing, strength & mindfulness videos- just for fun
Teachappy- YouTube
Mindfulness exercises and challenges
Edinburgh Zoo-live feeding
Click on the link to see animals being fed live
Children’s Newsround
keeps children up to date with the world around them, creating opportunities to talk about the news
Cosmic Yoga- YouTube
Yoga Videos for children aged 3+
Useful Links
| Name | |
|---|---|
| 5 Ways to wellbeing at home.pdf | Download |
| Adult Wellbeing Ideas.pdf | Download |
| Back-to-school-March-update.pdf | Download |
| mindfulness-calendar-daily-5-minute-activities (1).pdf | Download |
| The 30-Day Positivity Challenge (A4).pdf | Download |
| [573559]Primary_Wellbeing_Parent_Toolkit.pdf | Download |
