Personal, Social & Health Education
My Happy Mind
Mitchell Brook is proud to be part of the myHappyMind family! myHappyMind is a whole school programme grounded in Science that is dedicated to building positive mental wellbeing. myHappyMind helps children understand how their brains work and creates a culture that helps to build children’s resilience, confidence, and self-esteem. myHappyMind also teaches the children how to self-regulate and manage their emotions in stressful times, allowing them to be their every best self.
Over the course of the academic year, every child will study the following modules:
Meet your brain
Understanding how your brain works and how to ensure we look after it so that we can manage our emotions and be at our best. Growth mindset is a key part of this too.
C
elebrate
Understanding your unique Character Strengths and learning to celebrate them. This is a fantastic module for building self-esteem.
Appreciate
Understanding why gratitude matters and how you can develop gratitude as a habit. Gratitude is key to well-being and resilience and we're all about making it a lifelong strategy!
Visits
Throughout the school year, we are fortunate to have various visitors to help bring our PD curriculum to life, including visits from:
- The Police
- The Fire Service
- A dental health advisor
- Road safety experts
- The Wizard Theatre
Anti- Bullying
Mitchell Brook Primary School promotes an environment free from threat, harassment and any type of bullying behaviour.
Our aims include:
- Ensuring all members of the school community has an understanding of what constitutes bullying.
- Creating an atmosphere and environment where children, parents and staff feel able to tell the school about bullying if it arises and are confident it will be taken seriously and dealt with.
- To put in place clear procedures for dealing with incidents of bullying.
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Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)
RSE teaching at Mitchell Brook teaches children to develop values, attitudes, personal and social skills, and increase their knowledge and understanding to make informed decisions and choices when they are adults. Each year group will be taught appropriate to their age and developmental stage.
Why do we teach Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)?
There are four main aims of teaching RSE:
- To empower children to be safe and safeguarded.
- To enable children to understand and respect their bodies
- To help children develop positive and healthy relationships appropriate to their age and development
- To support children to have positive self-esteem and body image
Mitchell Brook chooses to teach Sex Education and Section 405 of the Education Act 1996 provides the right of parental withdrawal from the RSE provided at school except for those parts included in the National Curriculum.The Science curriculum in all maintained schools also includes content on human development, including reproduction, which there is no right to withdraw from. RSE lesson plans can be viewed below.