Wellbeing in School
Over the course of their education, children spend over 7,800 hours at school. With such a huge amount of time spent in the classroom, schools provide an ideal environment for promoting good emotional wellbeing and identifying early behaviour changes and signs of mental distress. The social and emotional skills, knowledge and behaviours that young people learn in the classroom can help them to build resilience and set the pattern for how they will manage their mental health throughout their lives. Emotional wellbeing is a clear indicator of academic achievement, success and satisfaction in later life. Evidence shows that mental health and wellbeing programmes in schools, can lead to significant improvements in children’s mental health, and social and emotional skills. Wellbeing provision in schools can also lead to reductions in classroom misbehaviour and bullying.
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Emotional Health and Mental Wellbeing Policy November 2020 | [pdf 186KB] |  |
Whole School Wellbeing - Spring Term Second Half 2021
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Whole School Wellbeing Week 1 - Spring 2 | [pdf 152KB] | |
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All About Pancake Day | [pdf 3MB] | |
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All About Lent | [pdf 4MB] | |
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Whole School Wellbeing Week 2 - Spring 2 | [pdf 164KB] | |
Whole School Wellbeing - Spring Term First Half 2021
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Whole School Wellbeing Week 1 | [pdf 138KB] | |
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Whole School Wellbeing Week 2 | [pdf 260KB] | |
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Whole School Wellbeing Week 3 | [pdf 348KB] | |
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Whole School Wellbeing Week 4 | [pdf 208KB] | |
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Whole School Wellbeing Week 5 | [pdf 239KB] | |
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Whole School Wellbeing Week 6 | [pdf 198KB] | |
Government Resources for Mental Health and Wellbeing
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Mental Health and Wellbeing
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Joe Wicks Exercise Tips
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importance of exercise | [pdf 10MB] | |
Gratitude Themes
Take a look at some of the wellbeing themes we have looked at in lockdown.
Make a Gratitude Jar
Our Wonderful World
Peace Out
Praise and Reward
Five Ways to Wellbeing at Glodwick
At Glodwick we aim to promote holistic development alongside academic achievement for all pupils; encouraging children to ‘be the best they can be’. The key to this is the emotional health and mental wellbeing of our whole school community. Our aim is for all children in school to develop the self-esteem, resilience and emotional understanding to be able to play an active part in school life, becoming successful learners and friends.
All children, staff and parents are encouraged to follow the ‘Five Ways to Wellbeing’. These are simple things we can do to help us enjoy life and be kinder to ourselves and others.
Connect
- Connect with people around you
- Spend time with your friends and family
- Make new friends
- Use different ways to communicate
Be Active
- Go for a walk or run, cycle, dance or play a game
- Walk to school instead of using the car
- Go to the park
Take Notice
- Take time to be still, reflect and become aware of your surroundings
- Notice what you are thinking and be aware of what is going on in the world around you
- Be curious
Learn
- Set yourself a goal
- Learn something new
- Try something you have always wanted to try
Give
- Do something nice for a friend
- Thank someone
- Smile and say hello
- Volunteer your time or raise money for charity
- Be a good role model
- Help your community
Five Ways to Wellbeing Video. Please click on the link below to watch the video.
What are the 5 Ways to Wellbeing.mp4 / MPEG-4 movie (oldhamlea.org.uk)
Oldham Council Support and Resources
The Oldham whole school and college approach to emotional health and mental wellbeing aims to promote social, emotional and mental wellbeing.
The framework offers practical guidance to schools and colleges to develop knowledge and skills to promote mental health and wellbeing and prevent minor problems from escalating into more serious long-term issues.
The document contains key actions that head teachers and college principles can take to embed the whole school approach to emotional health and mental wellbeing.
The actions are based on the eight principles.
These are:
- The school ethos and environment
- Curriculum, teaching and learning
- Student voice
- Staff development, health and wellbeing
- Identifying need and monitoring impact
- Working with parents / carers
- Targeted support
Please select from the documents below or click on the picture link to access Oldham Council Wellbeing page.
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Supporting Young Minds Through Tough Times | [pdf 6MB] | |
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Emotional Health and Mental Wellbeing - Emotional Health and Wellbeing Services | [pdf 1MB] | |
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Emotional Health and Mental Wellbeing - Graduated Response | [pdf 1MB] | |
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Emotional Health and Mental Wellbeing - Self Assessment Check List | [pdf 1MB] | |
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Key Partners and Quality Assurance Booklet | [pdf 1MB] | |
Well Being at Glodwick
We have developed a sensory garden in the school grounds. It includes areas for touch, smell, sight and hearing, it is a lovely inspiring place for children to learn and enjoy. Children use it for lessons and at play times. We also run an after-school gardening club.
We have applied for additional funding from National Lottery and we have already received funding from Rolls Royce to develop our scientific learning using the sensory garden.
Well Being Resources
Class Clips KS1 - Emotional wellbeing
Feeling Better explores a whole range of feelings and emotions for our young audience from the ones that make us feel good, not so good and to all the others in between!