At Highsted, we use our Connected Curriculum to enable students to explore how to manage the demands of balancing both daily demands and needs. About 60% of school students nationally report getting very tense when they study. Just over 60% of girls and 40% of boys say they feel very anxious about doing tests at school, even when they are well prepared.

What is wellbeing?

Wellbeing is the experience of health and happiness. It includes mental and physical health, physical and emotional safety, and a feeling of belonging, sense of purpose, achievement and success.

Wellbeing is a broad concept and covers a range of psychological and physical abilities. Five major types of wellbeing are said to be:

• Emotional wellbeing – the ability to be resilient, manage one’s emotions and generate emotions that lead to good feelings
• Physical wellbeing – the ability to improve the functioning of one’s body through healthy eating and good exercise habits
• Social wellbeing – the ability to communicate, develop meaningful relationships with others and create one’s own emotional support network
• Workplace wellbeing – the ability to pursue one’s own interests, beliefs and values in order to gain meaning and happiness in life and professional enrichment
• Societal wellbeing – the ability to participate in an active community or culture.

Overall wellbeing depends on all these types of functioning to an extent.

How can we help?

All staff are responsible for the wellbeing of students attending Highsted Grammar school.  We encourage students to have ‘open’ conversations with us when they are concerned about their social emotional mental health and wellbeing.

Students may wish to share their concerns with the following adults in school:

• Form Tutor
• A Peer Mentor
• Head of Year
• Head of Key Stage
• Learning Mentor
• SEND Manager
• Subject Teachers
• The Safeguarding Team