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Wellbeing
Supporting our wellbeing this term.
Looking after the wellbeing of our community has always been at the heart of Upton. This term, as we have faced such an unprecedented time of change and uncertainty, UptonHouse@Home has offered active ways for our children and families to support their emotional health via our weekly wellbeing lessons. From Transition to Form 6 the children have enjoyed practising how to pause and focus on building positive connections with themselves.
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Engaging in different creative activities, the children have developed self-awareness skills, explored different emotions, thinking of strategies that help self-regulate and enable them to make positive choices to boost resilience. In building a child’s understanding of themselves it helps them to connect so they can support their learning and growth, laying strong foundations for the future.
It has been a joy to see how the children have engaged with the activities each week, building their own emotional toolkit to take forward and use across any challenge ahead. In addition to our wellbeing lessons, our Thursday wellbeing assemblies have given the children the chance to learn a new breathing or mindful exercise. Practicing how to pause and focus on our breathing can bring a sense of physical calm to our body that allows our mind to settle. You will find some of these exercises, along with other useful resources, within our extended ‘Family Support and Wellbeing’ pages on the school website. Regular resources and information are posted via our Twitter account. Two specially recorded parent presentations were delivered via Teams at the start of term and as part of Mental Health Awareness week in May, addressing key issues for parents to support their family’s wellbeing at this time.
Wellbeing is an active process of awareness, reflection, curiosity, testing and patience: learning to tune into our unique inner voice to listen and to use our superpowers. Learn how to use them to help ourselves, each other and the world around us. We are never too young to start!
