Comely Park Primary School

Health & Wellbeing

Learning in health and wellbeing ensures that children and young people develop the knowledge and understanding, skills, capabilities and attributes which they need for mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing now and in the future.

Comely Park Primary School and ELC, working with partners, take a holistic approach to promoting health and wellbeing, one that takes account of the stage of growth, development and maturity of each individual, and the social and community context.

Our learning environment support supports our children and young people to:

develop their self-awareness, self-worth and respect for others
meet challenges, manage change and build relationships
experience personal achievement and build their resilience and confidence
understand and develop their physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing and social skills
understand how what they eat, how active they are and how decisions they make about their behaviour and relationships affect their physical and mental wellbeing
participate in a wide range of activities which promote a healthy lifestyle
understand that adults in their school community have a responsibility to look after them, listen to their concerns and involve others where necessary
learn about where to find help and resources to inform choices
assess and manage risk and understand the impact of risk-taking behaviour
reflect on their strengths and skills to help them make informed choices when planning their next steps
acknowledge diversity and understand that it is everyone’s responsibility to challenge discrimination.

Health and Wellbeing: Experiences and Outcomes (Education Scotland)

How Can I Support My Child's Learning?

Parentzone Scotland’s supporting health and well-being at home section has simple ideas to support your child in learning about health and well-being through everyday activities.

Parent Club are also here for you; offering an extensive range of tips and advice you can trust to help with the highs and lows of parenting. Browse topics covering: activities and play; behaviour; childcare; development and growing up; family, friends and relationships; feeding your baby; food and eating; health and safety; mental health and wellbeing; money and work; online behaviour and safety; pregnancy and first days; schools and edcuation; and sleep.

Free online courses for all parents, carers, grandparents and teens!

The Solihull Approach are a team within National Health Service in the UK. They work with practitioners and parents to develop new resources and training. They support emotional health and well-being in children, families and adults.

Solihull Approach offer online courses for parents, carers and teenagers in Scotland. There are courses available on several subjects. These courses can help you to understand your child’s feelings, as well as your own. Courses for parents and carers cover from pregnancy to adulthood. There are also courses for teenagers, including a course on adult relationships.

Solihull Approach courses are for everyone. They do not tell you how to parent. Instead, they offer a way to understand different aspects of parenting. They also provide the opportunity to consider how you wish to respond

To register online:

enter the access code 'TARTAN' and select continue
complete a short registration form to access the courses

Scotland Solihull Approach [pdf 694KB]

Social, Emotional and Mental Health

At Comely Park we utilise a fully integrated whole school social and emotional learning curriculum program, 'BounceBack!', promoting sustainable mental health, wellbeing and resilience for our learners.

Core values and Social Values: These units focus on developing pro-social values including values related to ethical and intercultural understanding.
People Bouncing Back: This unit focuses on developing self-management strategies for coping and bouncing back.
Courage: This unit focuses on strategies to find and act with courage in both everyday life and difficult circumstances.
Looking on the Bright Side: This unit focuses on teaching optimistic thinking, positive tracking, being appreciative and expressing gratitude.
Emotions: This unit focuses on strategies for developing & boosting positive emotions and managing negative emotions.
Relationships: This unit focuses on explicitly teaching social skills for building relationships and maintaining friendships.
Humour: This unit focuses on the use of humour as a coping skill.
Being Safe: This unit focuses on strategies and skills for creating a safe class and school environment and discouraging and managing bullying incidents.
Success: This unit focuses on skills and attitudes for identifying & applying character and ability strengths, setting goals, planning, persevering (grit & the development of a growth mindset), overcoming mistakes and obstacles and being successful in achieving personal and learning goals.

	Bounceback guide for parents	[pdf 529KB]
	growth-mindset-information-for-parents-and-careers	[pdf 4MB]
	resilience-information-for-parents-and-carers	[pdf 4MB]
	resilience-tips-for-parents-and-careers	[pdf 191KB]

Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood

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	RSHP-Parent and Carer Info	[pdf 561KB]
	RSHP-Learning-at-Home-Early-Level-information-for-parents-and-carers	[pdf 555KB]
	RSHP-Learning-at-Home-First-Level-information-for-parents-and-carers	[pdf 562KB]
	RSHP-Learning-at-Home-Second-Level-information-for-parents-and-carers	[pdf 551KB]

Food and Health

The NHS Forth Valley leaflets and link below highlight some of the resources and websites which can support nutrition, cooking activities and oral health for parents and carers.

NHS Forth Valley - Nutrition Resources for Parents and Carers

	Eatwell-Guide	[pdf 6MB]
	Eatwell-Guide-Vegetarian	[pdf 4MB]
	Eatwell-Guide-Vegan	[pdf 1MB]
	Eatwell-Plate- South Asian	[pdf 962KB]
	Fuel for Living Recipe Booklet	[pdf 607KB]
	Labelling Info Leaflet	[pdf 659KB]

Gold School Sport Award

Our vision is an active Comely Park where everyone benefits from sport. In a Sport School we will all find ways to be physically active every day. More of us will take part in sport because we see it being relevant to our lives. Being involved in ways that suit us. Meeting fewer barriers. Feeling more included. We will all experience more of the benefits of sport. For some of us, by taking part at school and for others, by also taking part through clubs and our communities.

The sportscotland School Sport Award is a national, Lottery funded initiative designed to encourage schools to continuously improve physical education (PE) and school sport opportunities offered within each School.

Comely Park holds a Gold School Sport Award from Sport Scotland.