Wellbeing at CHPS
Wellbeing at Clifton Hill Primary School
The wellbeing of everyone at Clifton Hill Primary School is a collective responsibility.
We aim to create calm, positive learning environments, where students are interested and active in their learning, achieve their goals and feel successful. We aim to establish positive relationships and set clear expectations and procedures with our students. This supports students’ sense of self, and their positive relationships with their peers and trusted adults so that they feel they belong.
Supporting the wellbeing of the students in our school includes building their emotional literacy, where children know and can name the emotions they have, manage their emotions and are able to assist others to know and manage emotions. This learning occurs through the use of a range of resources, including the Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships curriculum, student’s authentic experiences and when embedding our school Values.
Ways You Can Help:
- discuss emotions with your children at home including noticing and naming them
- practice strategies for managing emotions such as: taking in a breath or pushing a breath out, having a drink of water, moving to another space to cool down, going for a walk, expending some energy, having a cuddle…
- reminding children in the morning of the expectations for learning – trying their best, showing they are ready to learn through looking at and listening to others when they are speaking, taking turns, putting up their hand if they want to speak in a group, having fun.
- chatting about our school values of kindness and empathy, inclusiveness, gratitude, thinking creatively and critically and how these also apply to our wider community/world.
You may be interested in having a look at some of these resources: