Health & Wellbeing
Health and wellbeing is central to our ethos here at Kellands and our Health and Wellbeing curriculum teaches your child about: mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing, planning for choices and changes, physical education, activity and sport, food and health, substance misuse and relationships and sexual health and relationships. The purpose of health and wellbeing is to help every child and young person to feel cared for and valued as an individual. Learning about health and wellbeing will help them cope with uncertainties in life, have confidence to try new and different things and make the most of opportunities that come along.
Wellbeing brains
At Kellands, we are in the process of developing our very own bespoke Whole-school approach to delivering Health and Wellbeing based on our School Values and the Wellbeing Indicators. We call it, Wellbeing Brains. Below is the yearly overview of the themes and topics that are explored through our class lessons and often at assemblies too.
ZONES OF REGULATION
At Kellands, we dedicate the first term of each year to Mental and Emotional Wellbeing and deliver an adapted version of the Zones of Regulation throughout the whole school as part of our Health and Wellbeing provision. You can watch our Parent Presentation about the Zones below.
The Zones of Regulation is a framework and curriculum that teaches learners to build awareness of their feelings and utilise a variety of tools and strategies for regulation, prosocial skills, self-care, and overall wellness.
We want children at Kellands to grow into successful teenagers then adults. Teaching the children at a young age about managing their feelings will support them in later life so that they don’t turn to negative coping strategies which affect their mental and physical wellbeing.
If you would like to hear more about the Zones of Regulation then please watch the presentation above and/or read the information document.
The Zones of Regulation at Kellands.pdf
RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUAL HEALTH AND PARENTHOOD
As part of our 'Wellbeing Brains' Programme of Learning, we use a national resource - http://rshp.scot/ - developed by a partnership of local authorities and health boards, with advice from Education Scotland and the Scottish Government.
The Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood (RSHP) resource was developed as a result of identified need for RSHP education to be fully modernised, a recommendation of the Scottish Parliament’s Education and Skills Committee in their report ‘Let’s Talk about Personal and Social Education’. We have adapted the RSHP resource inline with our 'Wellbeing Brains' to ensure quality, relevance, and consistency and to reflect our inclusive school culture where we value and respect the human rights of everyone.
At Kellands, we are proud to deliver RSHP education that helps protect children and young people from harm, that is age and stage appropriate, and that supports our young people in understanding that friendships and personal relationships should be healthy, happy and safe. In delivering RSHP education parents/carers will be given advance knowledge of topics and lessons.
Physical EDUCATION (PE)
At Kellands, our PE curriculum is progressive and coherent across each stage in learning. A progression that encompasses multiple sports to allow ample opportunity for learners to develop a range of physical and mental skills.
Through Physical Education we promote skills such as communication, respect and tolerance, strategic thinking and problem-solving to enable our physical wellbeing to tie in with our wider health and wellbeing curriculum. You can view our PE progression below:
Kellands PE Progression.pdf
We are fortunate that P.E at Kellands is enhanced through partnerships with organisations such as Active Schools, AFCCT, Sustrans and IYSF to allow our pupils to experience specialised coaching.
We actively celebrate and promote world events in the sporting calendar including the Paralympics and Women in Sport Week to raise awareness and add relevance to learning. Although these events are dwarfed by the spectacle of Kellands’ Health Week each June, and our tri-weekly whole school assembly workouts in Terms one and four!
aberdeen fc community trust
As part of our Health and Wellbeing provision, Kellands work with the Aberdeen FC Community Trust who deliver two programmes of learning; 'Mindset' aimed at Primary 6 and Primary 7, and 'Playground Better Play' aimed at Primary 4 and Primary 5. To find out more about our partnership with AFCCT please watch the video.
Food and Nutrition
At Kellands, we are currently developing our 'Healthy' strand of our 'Wellbeing Brains' programme of learning. In this aspect of the curriculum we teach the children about developing healthy choices in regards to food, nutritional needs, and safe and hygienic practices.
In particular, the food and health experiences we aim to provide are designed to equip our children with the skills, knowledge and understanding they need to make balanced food and drink choices aligned to current dietary advice. Beyond the lessons in our 'Wellbeing Brains' programme of learning, we embed experiences of food and promote good hygiene practices throughout contexts of learning, examples of which can be seen below.
Primary 1 making champ (mix of potato and spring onion) for St Patricks Day, we chopped up our spring onions carefully. We made our mash potato and added the spring onion. We mixed it all together and tasted it!
Primary 2 explored instructional writing in order to make the best Kellands pancakes ever, for Pancake Day! The children focused on good hygiene and handwashing whilst making their scrumptious treats. The recipes are proudly displayed in the 'house corner' of their learning area. As for the pancakes, well, they now proudly reside in our bellies!
In Primary 3, the children have been exploring the importance of fruit and vegetables in their daily diet and they enjoyed making fruit kebabs . The children discussed the different colours of the fruit and vegetables and are developing an understanding that eating lots of different colours is good for us – that the different vitamins in them help our bodies in different ways and that they all help us go to the toilet (fibre in fruit and veg). They understand that eating at least five portions of vegetables and fruit a day helps to maintain health.
Primary 4 engaged in learning focused on how foods containing high levels of refined sugar can contribute to the formation of plaque and tooth decay. They explored how teeth brushing can counteract this process and discussed how these foods and snacks are ok in moderation and as part of a balanced diet. This conducted an experiment using yeast and sugar to help create a visual representation of how sugar reacts with the bacteria in our mouths to create plaque.
In Primary 7, we were learning about rationing during a WW2 context for learning. As part of it, we used popular recipes that were used during this time. The children prepared, cooked and tasted the different foods. They had to consider good hygiene and safety when using the different utensils and hobs. The children learnt many skills including how to cut, peel and cook a variety of foods and they loved tasting it at the end!
