SandownNurture
At Sandown School, a nurture ethos underpins our teaching and pastoral care, allowing the children to know they belong, allowing them to feel cared for and valued as individuals.
We believe that having a whole school approach to nurture helps support children to develop the emotional literacy and resilience needed to succeed in learning and building long-term relationships.
To help us with this journey, as a school, we are participating in the NurtureUK programme. The programme supports the development of understanding of Nurture throughout the whole school community.
We have lots of positive links with our local community and our community support network. Partnership with parents, carers and families allow the children to feel safe, secure and confident.
NurtureUK is a charity dedicated to promoting the importance of nurture and providing training and resources to help children and young people thrive.
Sandown has been working with NurtureUK for a year and we are aiming for the National Nurturing Schools Award within this academic year.
NurtureUK is underpinned by six nurture principles. We took these principles and developed them into child friendly language so that they could be embedded within the classroom and whole school environment.
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The classroom offers a safe base
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Our school provides a welcoming, safe environment with a belief that promotes warmth and emotional safety as well as physical safety for all. |
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Nurture is important to the development of wellbeing.
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Looking after ourselves and other people makes us feel good in mind and body. Using nurturing relationships to support the development of resilience in all of our children is important to us as a school. We foster those same strengths to build strong relationships with all our families. |
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Language is a vital means of communication.
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Language is valued as a way of putting feelings into words. At Sandown, we understand that the language we use when communicating with our children, their families and our colleagues can shape their thinking, feelings and actions. |
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Language is understood developmentally.
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As a school, we understand that we are all individuals and not everyone learns at the same rate or in the same way. We respond to our children in terms of their developmental stage with a non-judgemental and accepting attitude. |
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All behaviour is communication.
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At Sandown, we believe that all behaviours are communication. We understand that not every child has the ability to tell us how they are feeling so we aim to look beyond the behaviour and find ways to help them manage their thinking and emotions. |
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Transitions are significant in a young persons life.
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Transitions can be difficult for many people because it involves change, and sometimes even the smallest amount of change can cause anxiety. We understand how any transition is significant in a young persons’ life. We also recognise the importance of how day-to-day transitions are managed. |
Nurture (ID 1032)
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Nurture Day
Nurture Day
Pupil voice leaders worked hard to plan and implement the most amazing Nurture day. All day the pupil voice leaders led interactive activities to their house groups. Through these activities the children explored the six principles of nurture helping to embed them further into our whole school ethos.
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Captain Wonderweb and the Esteem Machine
Captain Wonderweb and the Esteem Machine
We were visited today by Captain Wonderweb and their Esteem machine.
This amazing show teaches the children the value of self esteem, resilience and believing in themselves through active participation, games and dance. We all had a great time.
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Nurture Choir
Nurture Choir
Today our nurture choir, alongside some of our brilliant Year 6 singers, had the pleasure of singing Christmas songs to the lovely residents at the Walmer Care Centre. We had the most amazing time and our lovely group of children were incredible; We are very proud of them!
Everyone loved it and even sang along to some of the songs.! Thank you guys, you were amazing!
