Health and Wellbeing
Learning in health and wellbeing ensures that children and young people develop the knowledge, understanding and skills which they need now and in the future to help them with their physical, emotional and social wellbeing. Within a Curriculum for Excellence there is a greater emphasis placed on health and wellbeing, recognising the need for children to develop positive, informed attitudes to taking care of themselves. It includes children being active, eating healthily, emotionally resilient and able to make informed choices. As part of this we don’t allow children to bring fizzy drinks into school and encourage pupils to bring healthy snacks into school. We encourage our pupils to be as active as possible at play-time. We take part in The Daily Mile. Each class also has a minimum of two hours of P.E. per week.
PATHS
We have embedded our Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) journey throughout the whole school . PATHS is helping our pupils develop their emotional literacy. We regularly share our emotions using our Emotional Check-Ins throughout the school day and celebrate individuals by giving them compliments with our Pupil of the Day.
Our P6 Pupils have applied, interviewed and been successful to become our PATHS Playground Pals. They will be spending time supporting our Support For Learning Worker’s during playtime and lunchtime to teach all our pupils new games and ways to support each other in a kind and caring way.
RSHP
In line with the Scottish Government and all other Scottish schools we will be using the RSHP resources to support pupils. These health and wellbeing lessons enable us to ensure we continue to embed children’s rights as is enshrined in Scottish Law. these lessons are an important part of their age/stage-appropriate learning in the same way Literacy and Numeracy is expected. Information about this is given to parents/carers at P1 Induction Days in May. The materials utilised are available for parents/carers to view freely online in the link below. Any parent/carer who wishes to discuss this programme should contact our Senior Leadership team.
Please click on the link below for more information.
