My Rights to Wellbeing is a universal programme, to support the knowledge and understanding of children’s rights. The programme aims to encourage children to develop their emotional language and promotes an understanding of themselves and their social relationships, both within their families and their wider communities.
For more information please see My Rights to Wellbeing.
Whenever a tragedy occurs, children, like many people, may be confused or frightened. Most likely they will look to adults for information and guidance on how to react. School staff can help children cope first and foremost by establishing a sense of safety and security.
Advice within this Guidance aims to support staff and to give them the confidence to appropriately respond to children and young people at this time.
Online meetings are now a part of everyday life in our new ways of working. However, one of the challenges of online meetings is how to engage with young people in a meaningful way when we are unable to meet them in person. A creative response to this challenge has been the use of ‘virtual rooms’. If you want to know more about setting up your own room, follow this link.
Exercise lifts our mood and helps us to think clearly. This is one of the messages highlighted in What the Brain Needs to Learn and Develop. This PowerPoint contains information for parents and carers about supporting children’s learning.
As part of the strategic plan for transforming and improving educational experiences and outcomes for children and young people in Highland, priority sessions of core training have been delivered this session for all staff on authority in-service days. The aim is to use these days as a starting point for wider discussion and development at a school level, with specialist services available to support the further implementation and embedding of skills as appropriate.
There are three training topics and all the materials needed related to the training are available on the following pages.
Promoting Positive Relationships
Highland Council Psychological Service 