The Neyland Way
Our school has clear values and expectations. We encourage a positive, calm and welcoming environment where each child is valued and encouraged to develop their own personal skills and achieve their full potential.
As a school we listen to our pupils and respect their views and opinions. We have four active pupil voice groups. Including Rights, Respecting Ambassadors, School Parliament, Eco Warriors and Criw Cymraeg. In these groups our children contribute their valuable ideas to support the school.
JIGSAW
We follow a PSHE scheme called JIGSAW. This programme has a strong emphasis on emotional literacy, building resilience and nurturing mental and physical health. Jigsaw lessons also include mindfulness allowing children to advance their emotional awareness, concentration and focus. Each year group takes part in a lesson of JIGSAW every week and weekly assemblies celebrate children's achievements when working on our school values.
We are proud to be a Jigsaw Flagship School where we share our good practice with others.
Do Be-Mindful
We have introduced a new mindfulness programme Do-bemindful. The aim of this is to develop awareness, self-regulation and resilience and encourage a calm, kind and compassionate culture in our school.
PausePoints
Yoga has been shown to improve health, wellbeing and educational attainment. PausePoints is a programme with specially tailored yoga exercises that children follow on-screen in class. At Neyland Community School we feel this is vital to supporting children's wellbeing and give them a moment throughout the day to reconnect.
RRSA
We are really excited at Neyland to be starting our journey with the RRSA. We have introduced the whole school community to the idea of working on the RRSA. We are working with staff, governors and the wider community.
We have voted in two Rights Respecting Ambassadors from each class to form a pupil voice group.
Empathy Lab
Definition of empathy - the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Empathy is made up of three main elements:
- emotional/affective empathy where we literally resonate with someone else's feelings;
- cognitive empathy or perspective taking where we apply reason to working out how someone else feels;
- empathic concern which is a powerful motivator for helping others, a force for social justice.
Our young people are growing up in a society with a major empathy deficit. At Neyland Community School we believe that empathy is a beacon of hope in a divided world.
Through Empathy Lab we aim to build children's empathy, literacy and social activism through a systematic use of high quality literature. The strategy builds on new scientific evidence showing that an immersion in quality literature is an effective way to build our empathetic understanding of others.
The Four Purposes of the Curriculum will be delivered by developing young people's empathy skills and a life-long love of reading. Our children will go on to become empathetic members of our community, Wales and the wider world.
"In reading, you get to feel things, visit places and worlds you would never otherwise know. You learn that everyone else out there is a me, as well".