#559 “SWERL” Supporting Wellbeing, Emotional Resilience and Learning – Gusford Primary School

How can we empower staff to enable trusting relationships to form with pupils & each other? How can we increase adults confidence and self-worth and create a whole school approach to promoting positive mental health for all? 

How can we empower pupils to build trusting relationships with staff & each other, increase children’s self-esteem and confidence and create a whole school approach to promoting positive mental health for all? 

• Pupil well-being survey. 
• Emotional insecurity. 
• Environmental / social factors. 
• Difficulties sleeping and controlling negative emotions.

• SAF’s Team (Student & Family Support). 
• Pupil and Staff Well-Being Ambassadors. 
• Senior Mental Health Leads. 
• 1:1 Staff Well-Being meetings. 
• Staffroom conversations.

• ALT Staff & Pupil Surveys (Quantitative) 
• Gusford in-house Staff Survey (Qualitative & Quantitative) 
• Pupil Voice (Qualitative) 
• 1:1 Staff Well-Being sessions (Qualitative) 
• Staffroom Conversation (Qualitative) 
• Staff sickness / staff retention data for 2017/18 (Quantitative) 

Domains 5 & 1: Building Relationships/Supported & Informed Staff: Activities and Interactions 

• Pets as Therapy Dog.
• External Counsellor/Coach. 
• Pupil counsellor (external).
• Mental Health Leads offer 1:1 Staff Well-being sessions and Pupil-Wellbeing Ambassador meetings. 
• One Page Profiles.

Domain 3: Enabling Environments:

Action Plan:

• Furnish and equip Rainbow Room. 
• Furnish and equip Merlin Room.
• Clear and equip space outside.
• Investment to improve outside play areas for children. 

Learning hypothesis (examples): 

• Children’s voices to be heard.
• Staff and pupil feelings and emotions will be supported. 
• Safe spaces to air thoughts.
• Staff will feel they are treated fairly and equally. 
• Strengths, abilities and career paths will be recognised and developed. 
• Creation of a cohesive, collaborative culture. 

• Regular Pupil Well-Being Ambassador meeting. 
• Repeat of ALT Staff & Pupil surveys.
• Condensed Gusford in-house survey to be repeated – sample test. 
• Measure impact of interventions on staff retention date/sickness absence. 
• Exit interviews for staff. 
• Parent survey to assess impact of interventions. 
• Retrospective scaling questions for staff and children relating to staff/children wellbeing. 
• Staff/parents to qualitatively evaluate impact on children. 
• Compilation of case studies.