WELL BEING and NURTURE

Alongside what we do at school, there is a lot you can do at home to support your child's mental health and well being.

Below are some websites that you may like to use with your child to encourage mindfulness and support well being.

Children often like predictability and using a visual timetable at home to prepare them for activities is often useful. Below is a visual timetable. We use them in school by popping up the day's lessons and then removing each picture once the activity is completed. Would your child benefit from this at home too?

Sunshine Club

Sunshine Club (Nurture) is a proven effective school provision to help children further develop their personal, social, emotional and communication skills in a smaller nurturing group. Activities can include cooking, games, discussions, art work or working on their own class work.

Sunshine Club may run at different times during the school year. Teachers will work closely with parents/carers should their child be selected.

Feelings Club

'We all have the right to feel safe, all of the time'.

Feelings Club focuses on developing children's understanding of personal safety. It develops their emotional literacy skills and explores the link between their feelings and behaviour, encourages good communication and helps to identify networks of support.

We will work closely with parents/carers of children attending this club.

PSHE

Please click on link to see teaching and learning for Personal, Social, Health and Emotional education.

PSHE

Bear Zones

Zones of Regulation is an approach used to support children to further develop their social and emotional skills. Essentially, it helps pupils to better understand their feelings, as well as teaching strategies to aid them in regulating their emotions and behaviours.

Pupils are taught to associate their feelings (negative and positive) with a colour in the first instance and then use vocabulary to describe it e.g. 'I am feeling red' (for angry, mad, out of control) or 'I am feeling green' (for calm, ready to learn and happy). The children also then develop a 'toolkit' whereby they have a strategy to use for specific feelings e.g. 'I am feeling red/angry, so I will go to the calm zone and read a book'.

Every classroom is set up with a 'calming zone' where children can go to regulate their emotions and behaviours. You may want to set up a 'bear zone' at home. Below are some display resources you are welcome to use.