Promoting positive emotional health and wellbeing:

The culture at Catchgate School promotes children’s’ positive emotional health and wellbeing and avoids stigma by:

• Having a whole-school approach to promoting positive emotional health and wellbeing within an ethos of high expectations and constant support.
• Having a committed staff community that sets a whole school culture of positive emotional health and wellbeing, support and value.
• Having a robust regime of continuing professional development (CPD) for staff.
• Having a change party involving children, staff, governors and parents.
• Working closely with children, staff, parents and carers.

• Whole school promotion of building individual resilience and tenacity through the use of learner levels in all areas of the curriculum.
• Zippy and Apple’s Friends and SEAL completed on a weekly basis teaching skills to develop wellbeing and resilience.