Well-Being and Pastoral Care
Please find below information on our Pastoral Care at Old Sarum Primary. To find out more information on our Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy, please click the following link.
Old Sarum Primary Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy
Useful Links
Pastoral care is a big part of the provision that we provide here at old Sarum primary school, we ensure that the Physical, Mental and emotional wellbeing of all the pupils are cared for. We aim to ensure that every pupil has access to support from the pastoral team and strive to build support that is effective so that our pupils have the best chances at success.
If needed we provide children with safe spaces, self-regulation zones and we use worry jars where the children are encouraged to share a worry, which is then followed up by the pastoral team or Class teacher.
We want every child to have safe secure relationships within the school which allow them to share and experience feelings in a space where they are acknowledged and supported.
This allows children to build resilience and their own ability to self-regulate.
We do this by
- Pastoral check in’s
- Bespoke 1 to 1 support
- Hamish and Milo
- Forest school
- Sensory breaks
- Drop in’s
Hamish and Milo are a resource that we use here at old Sarum Primary school. It provides us with a range of social emotional and mental health intervention programmes and training. Which our Pastoral team will deliver once recommended by their teachers or the SLT team. This ensures that we all work closely to deliver impactful sessions which support the children to gain the most from their school day and supports their overall skills that they can use in the future. Please see the link bellow for more details on Hamish and Milo.
Happy Minds
Old Sarum Primary School is committed to prioritising and supporting the positive mental health and wellbeing of our pupils, our staff and our families.
My Happy Mind is a programme that is grounded in neuroscience and scientific research. It is a programme designed to support the development of good mental health habits, resilience and self-esteem. It has been commissioned by the NHS and we have been able to access it through the NHS and Portsmouth City Council.
We are passionate about delivering a curriculum which empowers children to identify and use what the have learnt in myHappymind sessions to identify and regulate their feelings.
All of our pupils, from Reception to Year Six, participate in a weekly myHappymind session. This is usually delivered at the start of the school week so that the thinking and strategies can be implemented by children across the school week.
There are 5 modules which will take place through the year, these are detailed below
For more information on the School Programme
