Wellbeing at Christ Church School
Sports, arts, celebrating diversity and pastoral care and wellbeing are really important to us at Christ Church and our vision is for every child and every adult in our school to experience life in all its fullness now and in the future.
We are proud of our continued commitment to children and adults' wellbeing through initiatives such as 'Wake and Shake' and building resilience during our 'try something new' weeks.
We have held whole school 'Happiness projects' in 2016, 2018, 2021, 2023 and 2025 explicitly teaching about wellbeing and empowering children and adults to understand how they can support their own mental health.
Click here to find out more about our latest Happiness Project.
We have a continued focus on Staff wellbeing as we believe this is key to being a successful and happy school.
We have worked hard to involve parents providing a number of workshops (Click here to see information from parent workshops)
Each year we have three PSHE weeks where we interlink some of the curriculum objectives to wellbeing. Please see our events pages for more information about PSHE weeks.
We have an active Wellbeing Champions team made up of children from across the school who organise whole school projects related to wellbeing.
Happiness Project
The aim of our Happiness Project is to develop and embed understanding of ways to keep ourselves and others happy.
Each week we had assemblies, work in all classes, workshops, visitors and parent and staff workshops to teach children about positive mental health.
The ten themes were: Setting goals, Giving, Friends and Family, Try Something New, Emotions, Health Body, Simplicity, Celebrating Differences, Resilience and Belonging.
Click here to see our evaluation report from our latest Happiness Project.
Continued focus on wellbeing
We continue to develop and promote wellbeing and positive mental health for children and staff. For example, we give children the opportunity to volunteer in a local centre for older people and we have set up a staff group who plan a termly staff wellbeing week.
I think it's given him more skills, deeply connected him to the school and genuinely helped him to be happy. (Parent)
The main thing is that my child now knows that being happy can be within her own control. (Parent)