Health and Wellbeing

At Neyland Community School we are passionate at developing the Health and Wellbeing Area of Learning and Experience which is part of the Curriculum for Wales.  The main components of this area are physical health and development, mental health and emotional and social wellbeing.  Whilst recognising that good health and wellbeing are a very important contribution to successful learning.

The JIGSAW scheme is fully embedded across all progression steps, covers all of these statements and is a mindful approach to PSHE which includes emotional literacy, social skills and spiritual development.  With a strong emphasis on emotional literacy, building resilience and nurturing mental and physical health. JIGSAW enables us at Neyland Community School to deliver engaging and relevant PSHE lessons.  It also includes mindfulness allowing children to concentrate and focus.

Jigsaw is also aligned to the RSE (Relationships and Sexuality Education Code) and this is used, across the school, to ensure we have a whole-school teaching and learning programme that includes all of the statutory RSE outcomes.

Please click on this link to see the mapping document to show how RSE is delivered through our Jigsaw programme.

All children at Neyland Community School have a PE lesson timetabled per week with their class teacher and a session with a PE specialist in Parkour. As of January 2022, we use the REAL PE scheme  which provides age-appropriate activities and ensures skills progression right across the school through Progression Steps 1, 2 and 3.

Throughout the year, we aim to offer a range of sporting experiences. Years 3-6 take part in cluster and Urdd competitions in Rugby, cross-country, cricket, Netball and Football, for both boys and girls. Additionally, we take years 2-6 to swimming lessons which rotate on a half term basis. The 'Chance to Shine' organisation provides a few weeks of specialist delivered cricket sessions to PS3 in the Spring Term. We also work closely with Sports Pembrokeshire who provide opportunities for inclusive sports and dance.

Here at Neyland, once our pupils have achieved a 25m swimming badge, they are no longer required to attend the swimming weekly lessons in their half term. This allows them to spend more time in class learning, and opportunities to apply their swimming skills in other ways. We work with Wild Swim Wales, Paddle West and Outer Reef to give our competent swimmers more experiences in outdoor swimming environments, giving them the real life skills and confidence to enjoy the beautiful seas, rivers and beaches that Pembrokeshire has to offer.