At Langney Primary Academy, we understand the importance of ensuring our whole-school community lead healthy and happy lifestyles. We are dedicated to the mental, physical and emotional health and well-being of our children, families and staff and we know that children can only achieve their best when they are feeling their best, inside and out.

We actively promote physical and emotional health and equip our pupils with the understanding and skills they need to make informed decisions about their health, both now and in the future. As such, our pupils are eager enthusiasts for healthy living and well-being.

By championing healthy eating, healthy lifestyles and emotional and mental health and

well-being, we want to continue to raise standards and improve levels of pupil

achievement.

To support our aims, we have achieved the Well-being Award for

Schools (WAS), helping us to continue to improve and develop the standards and

practises that ensure we are a healthy community.

THRIVE
We are a Thrive Ambassador School and have several qualified Thrive Practitioners. The Thrive Approach draws on insights from the fields of neuroscience, attachment theory and child development to provide a powerful way of working with children and young people that supports optimal social and emotional development. Thrive equips adults to work in a targeted way with children and young people who may need support to re-engage with life and learning.

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WHO IS INVOLVED WITH THRIVE AT LANGNEY PRIMARY?
Mrs T Compton - Licensed Thrive practitioner and Family Thrive
Miss M Pollard - Licensed Thrive practitioner
Mrs L Rodemark - Licensed Thrive practitioner
Mrs W Thompson - Licensed Thrive practitioner
Mrs N Pickford - Licensed Early Years Thrive Practitioner

ACTIVE BODIES

Physical, Mental, Social and Emotional Health are intrinsically linked. At Langney Primary Academy, we give every opportunity for children and adults to be active and lead healthy lifestyles.

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• All Year 1- Year 6 pupils have 1 x 60 min Physical Education games (invasion and net/wall games, athletics, orienteering problem solving) lesson a week and 1 x 45 mins Physical Education movement lesson a week (Health Related Fitness, or supporting activities e.g. yoga, dance, gymnastics.)

• We offer a wide variety of physical extra-curricular activities over the course of the academic year (many are seasonal) including boys and girls football, athletics, yoga, hockey, karate, fencing and tag rugby to name a few.

• Every class in years 3-6 have a weekly swimming lesson for at least a term, with extra lessons provided for those that are not yet able to swim 25m unaided during year 6.

• Our school dinners are provided by an external catering company, Pabulum, who "Recognise the crucial role they play in shaping young people’s development with healthy school meals and nutritionally balanced dishes that bring fresh, locally sourced ingredients to the table".

• We offer opportunities for children to try a new fruit or vegetable that they may not have tasted before, in "Try it Tuesday."

• Our fantastic wrap-around care consists of Breakfast Club, Sunrise Club, Twilights Club and Sunsets Club that all offer healthy snacks for our children.

• We run numerous whole-school activities each year that encourage taking part in a physical activity whilst having tons of fun! We often raise money during these events too, such as Race For Life, the Reindeer Run, Rowathon, Mini Marathon and Bike to School Days.

HEALTHY MINDS

Here at Langney Primary Academy, we fully appreciate our Motto of ‘Active Body, Healthy Mind’ and vice versa. We endeavour to take care of our whole health - emotionally, mentally, socially and physically.  Here are a few ways that we take care of our minds and emotional well being in our school:

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• Every Monday, the Head of School leads an assembly with a focus on our motto and our school values. Past assemblies have included a focus on how to recognise our feelings, who we can talk to if we need help, appreciation for all we have and looking at the world with our glass half full.

• We offer bespoke counselling services and work with the Mental Health Support Teams from the University of Brighton.

• We are proud to be a ‘THRIVE Approach’ school, with all staff undertaking regular THRIVE training and numerous THRIVE practitioners supporting children. Most recently, we also deliver "Family THRIVE," working alongside selected parents/carers.

• Our PSHE curriculum has been specifically chosen to support children’s social, emotional and mental health, to ensure it helps our learners become caring, supportive and well-equipped members of society.

• "Wellbeing Warriors" are our pupil leaders in every class to support their peers. All Wellbeing Warriors have attended bespoke training in supporting Mental Health in others and modelling effective self care. There are age appropriate Wellbeing areas in every classroom.

• Yoga and mindfulness sessions happen throughout the school for children where breathing and relaxation is a focus.

• Our "Change Team" leads on important Health & Wellbeing initiatives and updates, decisions and plans in relation to the school community’s health and well-being. Our Change Team consists of a variety of adults, parents/carers and pupils from the school who have a great passion for ensuring the health and well-being of our whole school community is taken care of, and that information is readily available to all who require and would like it.