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Nurture & Mental Health-Rainbow Room

Our Rainbow room is a beautiful Nurture Room which allows all children a safe space to discuss feelings, friendships and families. All children across the school access the GLL statutory 'Pink Curriculum' within this room, in small groups. We follow all of the GHLL resources including the Pink Curriculum, RSE curriculum and Primary Mental Health.

If you have any questions, or would like to see any of the resources we will be using with children, please see Mrs Rollins or Miss Nessling.

Rainbow Room Annual Coverage

Pink Curriculum

PINK (People In The Know) is a new, statutory curriculum around PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education) and Safeguarding, set up by Gloucestershire County Council. GHLL aim to ensure better protection for children and a smoother transition from primary to secondary and further education by ensuring all children are following a comprehensive PSHE curriculum throughout their primary years. Across the year, all children will cover topics including: Health and Well-being; Relationships and Living in the Wider World.

Mental Health

Mental Health is fast becoming one of the largest issues facing our society in the modern world. Huge numbers of children, teenagers and adults are suffering from stress-related illnesses as well as a wide range of new mental disorders we are just discovering. This is at the top of the agenda for teachers as children and teenagers are put under ever-increasing levels of stress from an exam and results based culture.

Following the results of the Gloucestershire Pupil Survey, at Bledington Primary, we are using our Nurture Room and Primary Mental Health to help encourage positive attitudes towards mental health. We aim to help children calm their minds, focus on the present and stop intrusive thoughts including angry feelings which may sabotage their learning.

For those parents who have children who find it hard to sleep:

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SLEEP REGRESSION 

https://www.moshikids.com/sleep-regression/

E-Bug

E-Bug is a new scheme designed by Primary Care Unit, Public Health England and Kingfisher Treasure Seekers to improve children's knowledge of behaviours concerning health, hygiene and self-care. Children will cover topics including: micro-organisms, hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene, food hygiene, oral hygiene and antibiotics. We are now an approved E-Bug educational school.

Facts4Life

Facts4Life is a new scheme designed in association with Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group, GHLL and the PINK curriculum and aims to 'open up health education'. Our entire staff have been trained by their team and we have introduced their approach into our entire teaching style. Facts4Life is a new approach to health education with aims to link health and illness with a positive message that illness, both physical and mental, can be managed and should be expected across our lives. Our children should gain a much greater understanding of life expectations, responsibility and self-care.

RHE (Relationships and Health Education)

This subject is a statutory part of the National Curriculum and promotes forming strong, positive, safe and healthy relationships. It promotes pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development to prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of life. Our RHE curriculum is supported by GHLL (Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning), Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children's Board (GSCB) and forms part of the PINK (People in the Know) curriculum.

We aim to give our young people the tools they require to recognise what is healthy, understand what they can do about things that might not be healthy or which worry them and who to talk to about this.

Our RHE lessons will be covered in single year group sessions; 1 lessons per week, building on their knowledge each year. All content and questions will be addressed at an age-appropriate manner as stated within our school RHE policy and within the RHE curriculum, which we refer to in our school as our Rainbow curriculum. For more information, please check our Solid Ground Rules which are included in our RHE School Policy.

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