Charlotte Verity Professional Learning (School Based)

Staff and student mental health and wellbeing has been a goal in the strategic plan for my current school (Beckenham).  I lead the Wellbeing Team again in 2017, and loved scaffolding our student wellbeing leaders.  My goal was to liaise with school leaders, and then lead a team (staff and students) to develop & promote the MH curriculum, at Beckenham, to help meet the increasingly diverse needs of students  (Strategic Plan 2017).  Over 2017, our Wellbeing team meet during lunchtimes and after school. Here are just some of our achievements:  outcomes included:  * Beckenham mental health & wellbeing overview revisited, developed and shared with staff. This is a living document we can add to in future.  * Daily wellbeing notices for all students, using values-linked youtube clips, or student created role plays and movies * Input from staff and community sort and a whole school Wellbeing definition was created   (based on...

Our Assistant Principal, Michelle Maule, came and ran Circle Time with us today.  We are using Circle Time throughout the school this year, to help our students learn about and reflect on our School Kete Values:  We Care  -  We  Love Learning - We Get There Together -  We Make a Difference Michelle bought a sign with Circle Time protocols, and went through these with children: We then had a circle time discussion, sharing differences about ourselves with the whole group. Children also turned and talked with a buddy, sharing their favourite flavour of ice cream and identifying if this was differerent from their partner's preferred flavour. After Michelle left, we used the Circle Time model and protocols, and shared our highlight from the day. I noticed that more children had something to share (i.e. less 'passed') on the second circle time session.  My next steps: * Utilise  the Circle Time model weekly so children are used to th...