Wellbeing
At Royal Rise Primary School, we prioritise our pupil’s wellbeing with high importance. We understand that wellbeing is fundamental to the overall health of an individual, enabling them to successfully overcome difficulties and achieve.
Our PSHE curriculum was created on a firm basis of developing positive wellbeing within our pupils, along with the skills and attributes needed to contribute to this. Our school values: equality, respect, resilience, ambition, inquisitiveness, kindness, independence and confidence are embedded throughout our whole school curriculum and underpin key skills that children need to be well equipped with in order to develop positive wellbeing.
Literature
We include a range of literature that focuses on wellbeing, including: the Colour Monster, the Worrysaurus, ‘How to fill a bucket’ and other high quality texts into our discussion time. These texts help children to identify different feelings within themselves and how to manage them.
Self-Regulation
Children have access to a range of calm down resources in the classroom's calm corner, that allows them to take time out and manage their feelings appropriately, which is a key life skill.
Working closely with parents
We work closely with parents/carers in order to gain a clear understanding of our pupils needs and how we can provide for and support those needs in school. We also provide support for parents/carers and signpost for further support. We take pride in the strong relationships that we have with parents/carers in order to provide the highest quality support to our pupils both in school and at home.
Zones of Regulation
At the start of each day children are able to complete a Zones check-in indicating which zone they are in, staff will then support children who may not be in the Green zone ready to learn. To find out more about Zones of Regulation please click here: Zones of Regulation
Worry Monsters
Worry monsters are present in every class. This provides children the opportunity to write down their worries and place it in the worry monster. Teachers then check these daily and address the worries as a whole class. If the worry raises a safeguarding concern, then the school’s safeguarding procedure is adhered to.
Opportunities to talk
Children are given opportunities throughout the day to talk with a member of staff if needed. They also have whole class discussions regularly, where a safe and welcoming environment has been created through the use of ground rules in PSHE. This allows children to openly discuss any feelings, worries or concerns that they are experiencing.
'GLAD'
At the end of every school day, children complete the GLAD model. As a class, they discuss what they are grateful for, what they have learnt, what they achieved and what or who delighted them. This allows them to focus on the positives of their day.
