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Wellbeing at Elrick Primary School

Update for our school community: 16th February 2023

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Aims of this workshop:

- familiarise you with the Wellbeing improvement journey at Elrick

- opportunities to talk to children and staff about daily experiences and learning in health and wellbeing

- give you a chance to look at resources and experience health and wellbeing approaches

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Life and Ethos of the School

“The wellbeing of our school community is of utmost importance and at the forefront of all we do. We actively encourage children to talk about their social and emotional wellbeing and learning, as well as supporting staff members’ wellbeing. We have been recognised for this focus with a Wellbeing Award for Schools.”

Elrick Staff Handbook 2023

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Noticing more social and emotional support required for children and families

Work on our VVA – kind, respectful, safe

Resilience and Growth Mindset = key themes

School improvement plans

Government agenda

Media awareness

The Elrick Journey

September 2021

We started working towards the Wellbeing Award for Schools

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Overall next steps:

  • Action final stakeholder evaluations - “you said, we did”

  • Health Heroes Pupil/Staff Group continues fortnightly

  • Consult on Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Strategy/Policy Draft

  • Run the Wellbeing Profile in term 4 and compare results

  • Wellbeing Parent Focus Group – 3 x yearly; Wellbeing Workshop for Parents this session

  • Website Wellbeing Tab development

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The Glasgow Motivation and Wellbeing Profile

Rated 1-10, where 1 is “not at all true”

and 10 is “really true”

Fine Motor Skills

Support for Learning Teacher

Dyslexia Toolkit

Pupil Support Worker

Occupational Therapy

School Nurse

Health Visitor

EAL Teacher

IPT

SLT Support

Educational Psychologist

Speech and Language Therapist

Emotional Literacy Support

Social Skills Input

Other

Getting

It

Right

For

Every

Child

Elrick GIRFEC referral process

Wellbeing Indicators and

Wellbeing Web

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Wellbeing Profile

Analysis of Responses

  • Overall School Trends

  • P1-3 trends

  • P4-7 trends

  • Individual results

Newsletter

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Curriculum for Excellence Organisers for the experiences and outcomes

Elrick School bundled experiences and outcomes

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Workshop Opportunities:

Health Heroes – Wellbeing Wednesday

Digital Leaders – online wellbeing

Play pedagogy – Mr McKenzie

Steph from Scottish Grocers’ Federation – Healthy Living Programme

Co-operative Learning – Mrs McLelland

Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood Resource – Miss Anderson

Zones of Regulation and Emotion Coaching – Mrs Skene and Miss Ingram

School website and links – Mrs Thomson

Explore the curricular Health and Wellbeing experiences and outcomes

Kooth online resource for P6 and P7 pupils

Neurodiversity and nurture resources – Mrs Stockdale