Wellbeing
Wellbeing at Whitechapel.
At Whitechapel C of E Primary School, we have a dedicated wellbeing team, who work together to support mental health and wellbeing for our school community.
Pupil Voice
Well-being afternoon Spring 1 2023 (activities included mindfullness colouring, jigsaw building, motivational quotes, rock painting, chatty doll making, yoga and feelings/colour matching):
''The activities help me to concentrate, focus and stay calm''
''It made me stop being sad and feel happy and relaxed''
''It takes my mind off things''
''It helped me to see what I am like and how kind I am''
Well-being afternoon Spring 2 2023 (activities were based around the importance of sleep):
“learned not to use electronics before bed”
“good and taught me how to relax before bed so that I can sleep better”
“meditation will help you to calm down and sleep better”
“don’t eat chocolate before bed because it has got caffeine in it so will keep you awake”
“I found the afternoon really relaxing and taught me how to help me fall asleep easier”
“cool afternoon, learned about things that might help me sleep like eating and drinking the right things and doing relaxing things before bed".
May 2023
Reception- What did you learn in our well-being afternoon? “We learned that we are all the best and they were teaching us to be resilient”.
YR1 “ helps your brain to be healthy and ready for learning”.
YR2 “Brain breaks keep you focussed, calm, relaxed and happy”.
YR3- “This afternoon we listened to music which calmed us down”.
“We did yoga and I felt like it made my bones relax”.
“Brain breaks makes you more focussed and ready for Maths and makes all your worries go out of your body”.
YR4- “Helps you to focus and keep calm in lesson”.
“Gives your brain a rest”
YR5. “Brain breaks help me to focus on the next lesson”
“My brain is ready for the next lesson”
“energised for work”
“helps you to switch to the next lesson”.
YR6- Relax and makes us happy and ready to learn.
News – what we’ve been up to:
Wellbeing afternoon - mindfulness
Wellbeing afternoon - Sleep
Wellbeing afternoon - active learning
Support in school:
Staff in school have strategies for supporting children and will take swift action of any emerging issues that may occur.
Our pastoral team works with children, families and other professionals to ensure positive and beneficial outcomes are met.
Our daily wellbeing support in school includes:
Meet and greet
Daily check in systems
Collective worship
PSHE lessons (using the Jigsaw team)
Sports leaders
Half termly, whole school well-being afternoons (differing themes)
Useful websites:
https://www.thrivingkirklees.org.uk/
https://www.youngminds.org.uk/