Lane End Primary School

At Lane End Primary School, we place an importance on well-being and believe we have an essential role to play in supporting children to make healthy lifestyle choices and understand the effects of their choices on their health and well-being.

The social and emotional skills, knowledge and behaviours that children learn in the classroom help them build resilience and set the pattern for how they will manage their physical and mental health throughout their lives.

We provide children with reliable information and deepen their understanding of the choices they face by weaving the knowledge and understanding they require through our curriculum. We also provide children with the intellectual skills required to reflect critically on these choices and on the influences that society brings to bear on them, including through peer pressure, advertising, social media and family and cultural values.

Through clear behaviour and anti-bullying policies we set expectations for children to be able to learn and play in a safe environment. Our work on e-safety runs through not only our computing and PSHE curriculum but also through our anti-bullying weeks, themed assemblies such as 'Speak Out, Stay Safe' from the NSPCC and our e-safety days.

There is a direct link between well-being and academic achievement and vice versa, i.e. well-being is a crucial prerequisite for achievement and achievement is essential for well-being. Physical activity is associated with improved learning and the ability to concentrate.

We are able to offer a number of sports activities outside of the weekly PE lessons to promote active and healthy lifestyles. Our work with Sports 4 Kids and Wycombe Wanderers ensures children have structured physical activities to take part in at playtimes as well as after school.

Strong, supportive relationships provide children with the emotional resources to step out of their intellectual ‘comfort zone’ and explore new ideas and ways of thinking, which is fundamental to educational achievement.

At Lane End Primary School, we pride ourselves in knowing each and every child. Children are supported to develop social and emotional skills through our PSHE curriculum, whole school and class assemblies and our behaviour curriculum, learning about each of our values - not just what they are but what they need to do and say in order to reflect them on a daily basis.

We teach children about the Zones of Regulation through our Behaviour Curriculum – exploring how their actions and words impact on those around them and also through our Gemstones provision which supports children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs.

Positive emotions are associated with the development of flexibility and adaptability, openness to other cultures and beliefs, self-efficacy and tolerance of ambiguity all of which are at the heart of our school values and British Values that run through our curriculum.