Pupil Wellbeing

At Jeavons Wood Primary School we are committed to providing an inclusive, happy, stimulating and challenging environment where everyone’s potential is valued, enabling them to become confident members of the wider community with respect for themselves and others. 

Our key aims in supporting each child’s wellbeing, are to help support each child to:-

• Recognise their own strengths and difficulties.
• Develop self-esteem and self-confidence.
• Work and play co-operatively.
• Compete fairly, win and lose with grace and dignity and respect all others.
• Recover from setbacks and persist in the face of difficulties.
• Make and sustain friendships.
• Recognise and stand up for their own rights and the rights of others.
• Be able to solve problems alone and with the help of others.
• Manage feelings such as frustration, anger and anxiety.
• Understand and value the differences between people.

We believe that by nurturing each child’s well-being, children will become effective and successful learners.

The Rainbow Flag Award

At Jeavons Wood, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive environment for all pupils. We are currently working towards gaining the Rainbow Flag Award, which is a quality assurance programme awarded to schools that demonstrate they are an LGBTQ+ inclusive school. We have so far earned our Student Voice, Supportive Parents and Governors, Skilled Teacher and Pastoral Support badges and in the new year we hope to achieve our final two badges, awarding us the Rainbow Flag. Through assemblies, the curriculum, school wide projects and our team of Diversity Ambassadors, Jeavons Wood are committed to ensuring we are taking a positive approach to LGBTQ+ inclusion. 

Medicines in School

The Medication in School Policy is available to download from this page.

We are a nut-free school. Please do not send children to school with packed lunches or snacks that contain nuts in any form.

Social & Emotional Support

At Jeavons Wood our children are valued as individuals. We strive to support  the general wellbeing of the children by helping them to become emotionally and mentally resilient. We understand the importance of children's wellbeing and good mental health and the impact this can have on the ability to learn. 

Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) is one of the four Broad Areas of Special Needs and we have provision in place to meet the needs of children with difficulties in this area.  For example, interventions such as SEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning), There's a Volcano in My Tummy and Lego Therapy.

Mrs Lisa Hubbard is our Inclusion and Family Worker; she often provides emotional support for the children (regardless of if they have a special need or not).  She has excellent links with outside agencies who can support children and their families.

Nurture Group Intervention

Our Nurture Group Intervention provides additional support for children with barriers to learning, where we aim to provide:

• a safe and predictable, structured environment
• a differentiated curriculum, with roots in the Foundation Stage curriculum, that has an emphasis on the development of social and emotional skills
• activities and teaching that will enable the children to be successful back in their classroom
• adults as positive role models for social communication and interaction

The Nurture Group Intervention currently takes place three afternoons a week and can cater for 4-8 children. The Inclusion team work closely with the teachers to decide which children need to go in the Nurture Group; we assess the children before they go into the group and then review their progress once a term.

The Nurture Group Intervention Policy and further information on the principles of this intervention are available to download from this page.

Growing Together