Our Vision/Policy

The national criteria states:

“A healthy school works hard to ensure children experience happiness and when pupils are unhappy, anxious, disturbed or depressed there are open channels for them to seek or be offered support, without stigma and with appropriate confidentiality. A healthy school actively seeks to promote emotional health and well-being and helps pupils to understand their feelings”.

At Great Binfields we work towards positive emotional health and well-being in the whole of our school community for adults as well as our children.

Context and Rationale

Emotional health and well-being promotes school success and improvement by:

• helping pupils and staff feel happier, more confident and more motivated
• contributing positively to priorities such as enhancing teaching and learning, raising standards, promoting social inclusion and improving behaviour and attendance
• involving pupils more fully in the operation of the school
• helping to meet legal, ethical and curricular obligations

Aims

General

• Happier and more motivated pupils and staff who get more out of life

Teaching and Learning

• Pupils who are more engaged in the learning process
• Pupils have an awareness of fixed and growth mindsets and use strategies taught to develop themselves as growth mindset learners
• Pupils who can concentrate and learn better
• Improved standards in all subjects, not just literacy and numeracy
• Improved attainment- children striving to meet age related expectations
• More effective teaching
• Parents and carers more involved in school life and learning

Behaviour and Attendance

• Pupils with high self-esteem and confidence
• Pupils who are aware of and practice self-compassion strategies
• Pupils who have a say in what happens at school
• Fewer disaffected pupils, disengaged from learning
• Improved behaviour and attendance
• Less friendship issues and bullying

Staff Confidence and Development

• Improved morale
• Low absenteeism
• Better recruitment levels
• Positive and effective relationships with pupils and other staff

RSE consultation

The Department for Education introduced compulsory relationship education for primary children from September 2020. It also became compulsory for all schools to teach health education. The purpose of these subjects is to support all young people to be happy, healthy and safe – to equip them for adult life and to help support children to make a positive contribution to society.

As part of this, all schools are required to consult with parents when developing and reviewing their policies for relationships education, which will inform decisions on when and how certain content is covered.

Effective engagement gives the space and time for parents to input, ask questions, share concerns and for the school to decide the way forward. Schools will listen to parents’ views, and then make a reasonable decision as to how they wish to proceed. When and how content is taught is ultimately a decision for the school and consultation does not provide a parental veto on curriculum content.

You can find further details about the introduction of compulsory relationship education, as well as answers to many other frequently asked questions, on the government website.

Our current policy

You can view our current policy below.

Parent consultation survey

Access the parent consultation survey for relationships, sex and health education policy. Please note the survey is available to complete at any point, with no end date – responses will be reviewed periodically, and taken into account when the policy is reviewed each year.