Health and Wellbeing | Carnegie Primary School, Dunfermline

Carnegie’s Health and Wellbeing curriculum consists of:

Physical Wellbeing which explores the knowledge, skills and attitudes that are needed to understand physical factors in relation to our physical health and wellbeing.
Food and Health explores what our bodies need to stay healthy and investigates the nutrients required to sustain a healthy lifestyle.
Substance Misuse investigates the effects substances have on the body.
Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood allows children to explore positive relationships, their changing bodies, the diversity of sexuality and how life is created.
Planning for Choice and Changes provides the opportunity to think for themselves and develop confidence to make positive life decisions for the future.
Social Wellbeing explores the interaction of the individual, the community and the environment in relation to health and safety.
Mental and Emotional Wellbeing provides opportunities for children, staff and the wider community to build awareness of emotional and mental wellbeing.

Carnegie’s aims, which are the wellbeing indicators, offer a strong rationale to support this.

Look out for ‘My Wellbeing booklet’ coming home regularly in school bags. These booklets provide opportunities to talk and share at home and promote discussion in relation to Emotion Works, 5 Ways to Wellbeing and the Wellbeing Indicators – Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible and Included

Emotion Works

At Carnegie we use Emotion Works to provide staff, children and our families with a shared language to support emotional wellbeing and emotional literacy, relating to self-regulation.

Click the links and resources below to find out more about what Emotion Works is and how you can use Emotion Works at home.

5 Cogs booklet with visuals to support each cog – 5 cog booklet

Have a look through the information sway used above in the Loom video, at your leisure – https://sway.office.com/LGGaO3FTbPZVGToc?ref=Link

5 Ways to Wellbeing

In Carnegie Primary we are promoting the ‘Five Ways to Wellbeing’ to support children, staff and the wider community with knowledge and understanding of emotional and mental wellbeing. Research shows there are five simple things you can do as part of your daily life – at school and at home – to build resilience, boost your wellbeing and lower your risk of developing mental health problems. These simple actions are known as the Five Ways to Wellbeing.

The Five Ways to Wellbeing are – Connect, Be Active, Keep Learning, Give, and Take Notice.

They help people recognise and take care of their mental health and wellbeing. Regularly practising the Five Ways is beneficial for everybody in Carnegie. We believe these self-care skills will help support our learners wellbeing now and in the future.

Connect: Strengthening relationships with others and feeling close to and valued by others, including at work, is critical to boosting wellbeing.

Keep Learning: Being curious and seeking out new experiences at work and in life more generally positively stimulates the brain.

Be Active: Being physically active, including at work, improves physical health and can improve mood and wellbeing and decrease stress, depression and anxiety.

Give: Carrying out acts of kindness, whether small or large, can increase happiness, life satisfaction and general sense of wellbeing.

Take Notice: Paying more attention to the present moment, to thoughts and feelings and to the world around, boosts our wellbeing.

Click on the PowerPoint and video link to hear our Health and Wellbeing Committee talk through the 5 Ways to Wellbeing – https://youtu.be/vUnQ8lfDoKE

The 5 Ways to Wellbeing Introduction parents