Miller Primary School

essential skills for life.

Health & Wellbeing:

Miller Primary School is a Health Promoting School and we encourage all our children to lead a healthy lifestyle. We provide a  range of different Specialist Groups within the school which helps give children leadership opportunities at a school wide level. Our Health Promotion group is very active and they often have different initiatives which help keep health promotion at the forefront in Miller Primary. We offer a health week for all our children and we also offer a wide range of different after school sporting activities for the children free of charge. We won the Lord Provost’s Sports Personality of the Year Award in 2015/16 for our achievements in developing sports within the school.

Our Health and Wellbeing curriculum includes the following areas:

• Mental, Emotional, Social and Physical Health: The curriculum we offer our children includes building their resilience skills as well as developing emotional intelligence through Circle Time and feelings charts. We explore the area of bullying and developing friendships during class time, at assemblies and also at break times. We develop children’s self-esteem by focusing on their own uniqueness and their talents and skills. We use the nurturing principals to ensure that all children learn to develop as themselves in a safe, secure environment.
• Planning for Choices and Change: Our focus in this part of the curriculum is developing children’s skills for learning, life and work to help them achieve a positive destination when they leave school. We explore themes such as making an informed decision, peer pressure and the influence of the media on choices. Looking at job roles and giving children aspirations for their future is also a focus in our Health and Wellbeing Curriculum.
• Food and Health: Children explore where food comes from, how to prepare food safely as well as learning about healthy eating. We help our children develop the knowledge, skills and understanding to adopt a healthy lifestyle. We look at the nutritional value on labels and the influence of packing and the media on our food choices.
• Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport: As a school we value the importance of developing an active lifestyle in all our children and we strive to offer a wide range of different experiences in different sports for our children to participate in. We work with different partner agencies to help us offer children sporting opportunities which could offer them clubs within the community.

   

  Children receive 2 hours quality PE every week in school as part of our curriculum and we promote fair play at all times. We are actively involved in different competitions and we promote children developing a positive attitude to winning or losing. Children in P7 are offered swimming to develop their confidence in the water.

•  Substance Misuse: Our curriculum for Health and Wellbeing incorporates learning about the effects of drugs, alcohol and tobacco on the body to give our children the knowledge and understanding about the harm these can do to them. We promote leading a healthy lifestyle and explore risk taking behaviours and the importance of making an informed choice.
• Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood: In Miller Primary we use the resource Sexual Health and Relationship Education which has been approved by the Council to deliver a structured programme from Primary 1 to 7 which includes themes such as friendships, our bodies, puberty, etc. We offer an annual opportunity for parents to come to an information session about the resource.