HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Learning in health and wellbeing ensures that children and young people develop the knowledge and understanding, skills, capabilities and attributes which they need for mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing now and in the future. Learning through health and wellbeing enables children and young people to: 

From Curriculum for Excellence: Health and Wellbeing Principles and Practice https://education.gov.scot/Documents/health-and-wellbeing-pp.pdf 

At Redwell Primary, health and wellbeing is an important part of our curriculum. This has only become more important as our children have navigated the changes caused by COVID. Children’s learning in health and wellbeing includes developing mental and emotional literacy, developing and managing relationships, internet safety, anti-bullying, healthy eating and nutrition, hygiene and safety. Recently our work on health and wellbeing has included learning about bonfire night safety, a whole school wellbeing day structured around the SHANARRI indicators and anti-bullying week activities. 

Through health and wellbeing education, children have a range of experiences through which they will: 

• Develop their self-awareness, self-worth and respect for others 

• Learn to meet challenges, manage change and build relationships 

• Experience personal achievement and build resilience and confidence 

• Understand and develop physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing and social skills 

• Acknowledge diversity and understand that it’s everyone’s responsibility to challenge discrimination 

• Participate in a wide range of activities which promote a healthy lifestyle 

From Curriculum for Excellence: Health and Wellbeing Experiences and Outcomes 

https://education.gov.scot/Documents/health-and-wellbeing-eo.pdf 

An important part of our work on health and wellbeing is physical education. At Redwell we benefit from two specialist PE teachers. Each class has two 45 minute and one 30 minute PE lesson each week. As part of PE, our classes enjoy many different activities such as basketball, football, hockey and gymnastics. We also have the advantage of lots of outdoor space which means children participate in a range of outdoor activities such as orienteering and cross country running. 

We follow the Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood programme. This is a national resource which follows Curriculum for Excellence guidance and is structured for Early, First and Second level. The programme covers a range of topics including families and friendships, looking after living things, our bodies, relationships, hygiene and being safe. You can find more information about RSHP here: https://rshp.scot/