At Welbeck, we want every pupil to become active global citizens, with a developed sense of pride and responsibility for their community and the wider world. As the grow, our pupils become responsible, confident and respectful young adults, actively promoting social justice and helping others.

UNICEF Rights Respecting
Rights Respecting develops pupils’ health and well-being. It is interwoven into our curriculum, developing a community where global children’s rights are learned, taught, practised, respected and promoted, with inclusion at its heart. Click here for more information.

Contemporary issues
At Welbeck, we develop pupils’ awareness and understanding of local and global issues that affect them through a wide variety of learning opportunities and media forms. Pupils discuss and reflect on issues, enabling them to develop their empathy and tolerance, and decide how best they want to present this – for example through stop motion videos and creative arts week galleries (click here).

Global awareness
Welbeck provides rich opportunities to celebrate many international days that happen across the world. World Earth Day, World Kindness Day and International Refugee Week are just a few of the celebrations our pupils engage in, developing empathy and tolerance for people and countries of different cultures and beliefs.

Community and Sustainability
Alongside developing pupil awareness of global diversity, we develop a deep appreciation and pride for our local community here in the Meadows. We work closely with local and voluntary groups such as Green Meadows and local business partners to support the delivery of our curriculum. Our pupils are active in the community, supporting and leading on local environment matters through our eco-clubs, litter picking and community projects.

Topics
Pupils receive quality first teaching on becoming global citizens and the importance of democracy through topics such as Democracy (UPKS2), School Council elections, writing to their local MPs and our Children’s University Programme (click here).

Global Citizens

How we do this: PSHE lessons, assemblies, 50 Things, Topic lessons, School Council

At Welbeck we support our pupils in their journey to being healthy, happy and safe young people by teaching the importance of physical and mental health. This involves teaching a wide variety of factors from food choices, physical activity and balanced lifestyles, to drugs and alcohol education, first aid, sleep and dental health.

PE Specialist provision

At Welbeck, we have a specialist PE lead who works across the whole school, leading on PE lessons, lunchtime and after school extra curricular clubs and providing targeted support to pupils as well as high quality CPD for staff. Termly assemblies are held to celebrate pupil successes and progress in participation.

Forest School, Allotments and our gardener

At Welbeck, we take pride in growing fresh vegetables and fruit. Pupils are taught from Nursery and Reception age how to sow and harvest crops from our allotments and planters by our gardener and teachers, as well as how to name and recognize each plants. Through DT lessons and clubs, pupils are taught how to cook and enjoy eating this fresh produce (click here).

Parental workshops

Parental workshops are run to support parents in how they care for their children’s health. Workshops on eye care, oral care and sleep build on what children have been taught by external providers such as Specsavers.

Drugs and Alcohol

Age appropriate and bespoke workshops are delivered by teachers on the impacts of vaping drugs and alcohol (UPKS2) and the effects that everyday substances (caffeine, energy drinks) have on developing bodies.

Clubs for Healthy attitudes

At Welbeck, every pupil participates in an extra-curricular club either during or after the school day. Pupils have the opportunity to participate in ‘Kilometre Club’ before the school day starts, ensuring a healthy start to their day. Staff sit with pupils daily during lunchtimes, encouraging them to eat healthy, balanced meals and develop positive habits.

Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds

How we do this: PSHE lessons, assemblies, PE and Topic lessons, School Council

At Welbeck, we promote our pupils to be kind, tolerant and empathetic. The foundation of this is the strength of the relationships staff build with pupils and the sense of belonging we give every pupil, where similarities and differences of people of different ethnic, cultural and faith backgrounds are celebrated and cherished.

School Values

Our character curriculum and school values underpin everything we want to see realized in each pupil as they grow– confidence, resilience, respect, enjoyment, independence, responsibility and excellence. Staff members explain, demonstrate and model the highest expectations of these values through role-play opportunities, PSHE lessons and assemblies.

Relationships

Our pupils learn how to identify the characteristics of healthy relationships, the qualities of good friendships and the skills needed to make friendships work. This understanding and skills are developed using structured PSHE lessons, assemblies and a wide variety of strategies such as circle-time, role-play and reflection. Every year we celebrate Anti-bullying week across our whole school (click here).

Sex and Relationships Education

Information of our Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) can be found here.

Being safe

To succeed in life and fulfil their potential, pupils must feel safe. We develop their understanding of everyday safety through water safety assemblies, road safety workshops and topic and PSHE lessons. This is complemented with visits to fire stations, police stations and the Bikeability programme in UPKS2.

Online safety

In an ever-changing online world, we teach our pupils how to be safe online, through e-Safety assemblies and workshops lead by our specialist IT lead. Our pupils are aware of modern online risks, learning skills in how to identify truthful content and safely navigate online platforms. Parental workshops are run to support parents with online safety outside of school.

Tolerance and Respect

How we do this: PSHE lessons, assemblies, Topic lessons, School Council

Our school motto is ‘Never settle for less than your best’. At Welbeck, we strive to ensure every pupil develops the characteristics and values that will help them to fully realise their potential throughout their life. This is done by developing close relationships with every pupil, knowing their interests and supporting them through a highly enriched curriculum.

Gifted and Talented

Every single pupil at Welbeck is on our Gifted and Talented register. Pupil talents range from academic to sports to hobbies. Staff develop these talents through in-school and after-school extra-curricular provision, and pupils representing our school in their given talent. Our annual Talent Show is a highlight of the year.

Celebrating Achievement

Feeling a sense of achievement and receiving recognition for hard work and perseverance are key to developing a pupil’s confidence, resilience and a life-long love of learning. Our pupils’ achievements are recognised through our weekly achievement assemblies and parent invited ‘End of Term’ awards.

Role Models

At Welbeck, our pupils are surrounded by positive female and male role models from their own lives, community and wider world. Every assembly begins with a discussion on a chosen role model, and themes in Rights Respecting, Black history Month, and International Women’s week to name just a few, showcase positive role models. Year 6 pupils take on playground roles and responsibilities for younger pupils, and they enjoy visits from past pupils who speak about secondary school.

Children’s University

Outside partnerships place a key role in our outstanding provision at Welbeck. Our pupils enjoy consistent high-quality experiences of working with outside partners in the delivery of extra-curricular, enrichment opportunities which develop their understanding of careers and goals., as well as being aspirational role models to them (Click here).

50 things at Welbeck

Our 50 Things offer is our commitment to ensuring all children experience a range of enrichment opportunities through our Character Curriculum, developing their resilience, empathy, respect and tolerance. Click here.

Fulfilling our potential

How we do this: PSHE lessons, assemblies, Enriched curriculum, SMSC