Health and Wellbeing
At Earlston Primary School we ensure that all children experience what it feels like to develop, enjoy and live a healthy lifestyle.
We provide opportunities for pupils to:
There is a programme for early, first and second level. Therefore, children will be developing their skills throughout their primary school experience. Key themes and messages are taught through class activities and school assemblies.
As well as Building Resilience, we are delivering lessons on the wellbeing indicators. A child or young person's wellbeing is influenced by everything around them and the different experiences and needs they have at different times in their lives. The wellbeing indicators highlight the key factors that influence wellbeing – safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected, responsible and included. By making the wellbeing indicators explicit for children, we are developing their understanding of wellbeing and how to live healthy and happy lives.
In addition to the above, we implement Scottish Borders Council’s planners for Sexual Health & Relationship Education and Drugs and Alcohol Misuse. These cover a range of age-appropriate topics for children and young people. Information about the themes being covered with your child(ren) will be sent out prior to the learning taking place. Parents and families of P6 and P7 children will be invited to a presentation regarding the content being covered in Sexual Health & Relationship Education and provide an opportunity for families to ask any questions or provide comments.
We have close links with our school nurse, Mary Carryer, who supports our teachers in the delivery of our Health and Wellbeing programme. As a health promoting school we work hard to ensure that the promotion of Health and Wellbeing permeates all our work.
All children participate in PE every week, whether in the form of movement, games, dance or development of skills specific to a sport. All classes have two PE sessions within the week with a PE teacher. There are various festivals and tournaments throughout the session, including hockey, athletics, rugby and netball, where the children are able to apply the skills they have learned within PE.
Each session all children in the school will benefit from the excellent Active Schools Programme and additional sporting activities provided through our local community.
Wellbeing Indicators
In order to support children’s knowledge and understanding of the wellbeing indicators and the factors that influence wellbeing, children have been involved in creating characters to represent each of the indicators (see below).
These indicators are referred to throughout the school – they are a key focus of weekly assemblies, they are used in conversations with adults and peers and they are used to celebrate achievements, through our wellbeing indicator stickers. These say ‘Ask me how I have been…’ and refer to one of the eight wellbeing indicators. This is to support discussions between family and child but also supports discussions within school as peers and adults ask the child what they have done to be like one of our indicators.
Earlston’s Wellbeing Characters:
At Earlston Primary School we ensure that all children experience what it feels like to develop, enjoy and live a healthy lifestyle.
We provide opportunities for pupils to:
- Experience positive aspects of healthy living and activities for themselves (both during and after school) ;
- Develop the knowledge and understanding, skills, abilities and attitudes necessary for their physical, emotional and social wellbeing now and in their future lives;
- Make informed decisions in order to improve their physical, emotional and social wellbeing;
- Apply their physical, emotional and social skills to pursue a healthy lifestyle.
There is a programme for early, first and second level. Therefore, children will be developing their skills throughout their primary school experience. Key themes and messages are taught through class activities and school assemblies.
As well as Building Resilience, we are delivering lessons on the wellbeing indicators. A child or young person's wellbeing is influenced by everything around them and the different experiences and needs they have at different times in their lives. The wellbeing indicators highlight the key factors that influence wellbeing – safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected, responsible and included. By making the wellbeing indicators explicit for children, we are developing their understanding of wellbeing and how to live healthy and happy lives.
In addition to the above, we implement Scottish Borders Council’s planners for Sexual Health & Relationship Education and Drugs and Alcohol Misuse. These cover a range of age-appropriate topics for children and young people. Information about the themes being covered with your child(ren) will be sent out prior to the learning taking place. Parents and families of P6 and P7 children will be invited to a presentation regarding the content being covered in Sexual Health & Relationship Education and provide an opportunity for families to ask any questions or provide comments.
We have close links with our school nurse, Mary Carryer, who supports our teachers in the delivery of our Health and Wellbeing programme. As a health promoting school we work hard to ensure that the promotion of Health and Wellbeing permeates all our work.
All children participate in PE every week, whether in the form of movement, games, dance or development of skills specific to a sport. All classes have two PE sessions within the week with a PE teacher. There are various festivals and tournaments throughout the session, including hockey, athletics, rugby and netball, where the children are able to apply the skills they have learned within PE.
Each session all children in the school will benefit from the excellent Active Schools Programme and additional sporting activities provided through our local community.
Wellbeing Indicators
In order to support children’s knowledge and understanding of the wellbeing indicators and the factors that influence wellbeing, children have been involved in creating characters to represent each of the indicators (see below).
These indicators are referred to throughout the school – they are a key focus of weekly assemblies, they are used in conversations with adults and peers and they are used to celebrate achievements, through our wellbeing indicator stickers. These say ‘Ask me how I have been…’ and refer to one of the eight wellbeing indicators. This is to support discussions between family and child but also supports discussions within school as peers and adults ask the child what they have done to be like one of our indicators.
Earlston’s Wellbeing Characters: