s m i l e A SMILE worth sharing?

Wellbeing is afocus formany schools, forpupils and staff. Following an inquiry-based partnership study into the SMILE approach to supporting wellbeing, Issy Jerrard, Amanda Mordey,Barry Carpenter and Jo Egerton summarise the outcomes of its implementation.

‘SMILE’ is awhole-school ethos andcommunity-based approach to wellbeing, introduced in 2019. It stands for Socialise, Move,Interest,Learnand Engage and encompasses arange of resources andideas to support schools to develop these areas with afocusonwellbeing

To empowerschool communitiesto become architects of their own emotionalhealth andwellbeing.’

emotional healthand wellbeing (EHWB) forall –children, staffand the whole school community attainment –good EHWBleads to goodlife outcomes listening to each other care, concern andrespect for all kindnessand gratitude

Duringthe firstphase roll-out in classrooms,(JanuarytoJuly2019), SMILE partner schools sharedinterventions and the best hoped forlearningoutcomes (BHFOs)wereselectedaccording to needs. In addition,the Assess-Plan-DoReview approach was usedwithin twoor more classes to trial focused interventions.

The secondphase was theAcrossSchool Roll-Outofemotional health and wellbeing interventions(September 2019 to March 2020). During this phase, schools identified at leasttwo interventions to implement widely and monitored the outcomes of each one. Everyparticipating school was encouraged to collect evidence of efficacy from twosources for each; onequalitative/perceptual and onequantitative.