Well-being at LGPS

Wellbeing for All

At Lincoln Gardens Primary School, we believe that as well as supporting children to be the best they can be academically, it is even more important to support children to be the best they can be both socially and personally. There is mounting research that suggests that a person’s mental wellness has a significant impact on their ability to learn, enjoy life experiences and form positive relationships. For this reason, Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) provision is weaved throughout the school curriculum and daily experiences. We are committed to supporting the emotional health and wellbeing of our pupils and staff. We know that everyone experiences life challenges that can make us vulnerable and at times, anyone may need additional emotional support. We take the view that positive mental health is everybody’s business and that we all have a role to play.

At our school we:

  • help children to understand their emotions and feelings better.
  • help children feel comfortable sharing any concerns or worries.
  • help children socially to form and maintain relationships.
  • promote self-esteem and ensure children know that they count.
  • encourage children to be confident and ‘dare to be different’.
  • help children to develop emotional resilience and to manage setbacks.

We follow the Five Ways to Wellbeing to help us on our school journey:

Pupil Mental Health and Wellbeing Policy

Connect

Good relationships are important for your mental wellbeing. They can:

  • help you to build a sense of belonging and self-worth
  • give you an opportunity to share positive experiences
  • provide emotional support and allow you to support others

At LGPS we foster positive relationships with all members of the school community, child to child, child to adult and adult to adult.

  • Keeping in touch with others and the wider school community- Ashby Wesley, community groups. Daily meet and greets
  • Sharing their positive experiences and successes through our Achievement Tree
  • Our various leadership roles in school- Head Boy and Head Girl, sports captains, house captain, student councillors, BV ambassadors and playground buddies
  • Being a member of one of our 5 houses- Polar, Jungle, Mountain, Desert or Ocean
  • Participating in whole school assemblies
  • Working with children in different year groups e.g. reading buddies
  • Collaborating with peers during learning activities
  • Completing activities off the ‘bucket list’
  • Daily engagement with the schools ‘learning behaviours’
  • Being provided with an active voice
  • Links with the community – local food bank, church and care home
  • Openly talking to trusted adults

Be Active

Being active is not only great for your physical health and fitness. Evidence also shows it can also improve your mental wellbeing by:

  • raising your self-esteem (see more: NHS raising your self-esteem)
  • helping you to set goals or challenges and achieve them
  • causing chemical changes in your brain which can help to positively change your mood
  • Morning Move Its, PE sessions, Brain Break activities, active lessons, play, weekly mile. Participating in daily ‘Morning Move-it’
  • PE lessons
  • Swimming lessons
  • Extra-curricular clubs
  • Representing the school at sports events
  • Sports day
  • Inter-house competitions
  • Completing the daily walk to school tracker
  • Participating in various initiatives e.g. Skip for Life


Keep Learning

Research shows that learning new skills can also improve your mental wellbeing by:

  • boosting self-confidence and raising self-esteem
  • helping you to build a sense of purpose
  • helping you to connect with others
  • Even if you feel like you do not have enough time, or you may not need to learn new things, there are lots of different ways to bring learning into your life.
  • Following a broad and balanced curriculum, opportunities to try new activities in the year group bucket lists, visitors and visits to inspire us
  • being exposed to an ambitious, broad and balanced curriculum whereby new skills are introduced in each year group
  • enrichment opportunities from visitors coming into school or by going on school trips


Give

Research suggests that acts of giving and kindness can help improve your mental wellbeing by:

  • creating positive feelings and a sense of reward
  • giving you a feeling of purpose and self-worth
  • helping you connect with other people

It could be small acts of kindness towards other people, or larger ones like volunteering in your local community.

  • supporting a variety of charities with huge success, such as Jeans for Genes day, MacMillan Coffee evenings, CIN and Red Nose day etc.
  • Nominating daily behaviour for learning pupil
  • Kindness Cup in Out of this World Assembly

Giving our time to others, Jigsaw and PHSCE activities, involvement in charities and awareness days such as “Children in Need”, “Red nose Day”, “Operation Christmas Child” Macmillan Coffee Morning and many others.

Take Notice

Paying more attention to the present moment can improve your mental wellbeing. This includes your thoughts and feelings, your body and the world around you.

Some people call this awareness “mindfulness”. Mindfulness can help you enjoy life more and understand yourself better. It can positively change the way you feel about life and how you approach challenges.

Paying more attention to the present moment can improve your mental wellbeing. This includes your thoughts and feelings, your body and the world around you.

Some people call this awareness “mindfulness”. Mindfulness can help you enjoy life more and understand yourself better. It can positively change the way you feel about life and how you approach challenges.

Paying more attention to the things around us can make us feel calm and peaceful. At LGPS we use Mindfulness activities such as breathing techniques and yoga to achieve this.

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