View: Playback’s Portfolio of HWB Resources for Primary School

View: This is Me! Wellbeing (GIRFEC) Presentation

The Knowing Me, Knowing You resource is a progressive Health and Wellbeing Curricular Programme for Nursery and Primary Schools – pupils aged 3 – 12 years providing a comprehensive and engaging resource that has been written in collaboration with a range of early years and primary professionals. It provides a building block approach to children’s social and emotional learning.  We all recognise that healthy, social and emotional development advances children’s success in school and life.

This resource also supports pupils to recognise the skills they need for learning, life and work and supports them in being engaged life-long learners who are self-aware, caring and connected to others supporting the delivery of Developing Scotland Young Workforce Agenda. The reource ogffers a rights basd appraich delivering the core principles of Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC, Scotland).

View: GIRFEC Indicators, United Nations and the 4 Capacities Chart

Knowing Me, Knowing You supports schools in building inclusiveness, health and wellbeing, active participation, citizenship and community. Within the field of social and emotional learning there is a growing recognition that healthy, social and emotional development advances children’s success in school and life. Social and emotional learning helps children academically and supports them in being engaged, life-long learners who are self-aware, caring and connected to others.

Knowing Me, Knowing You is a personal and social development programme that focuses on the mental health and wellbeing of children aged 3 – 12 years. The programme offers a whole school approach to developing the emotional and social wellbeing of children. The lessons are underpinned by social and emotional learning through six key themes and will support teachers in monitoring progression, personal learning planning and encourage pupils to set their own development needs.

Because of the nature of development and learning in health and wellbeing, many of the experiences and outcomes are designed to span two or more levels. These should be revisited through a wide range of relevant and realistic learning experiences to ensure that every child and young person is progressing in his or her development and learning.

Curriculum for Excellence Experiences and Outcomes Health and Wellbeing Knowing Me, Knowing You supports the 4 capacities of learning from Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) Scotland:

• successful learners – supporting children in understanding what they are learning, how they are learning, and what
• responsible citizens – supporting children to adopt inclusive principles in their work and in their play, and in valuing and working towards achieving inclusion and equity in their local and global communities
• effective contributors – supporting children in offering and justifying their opinions
• confident individuals – supporting children to develop a realistic, positive self-concept and to acknowledge their strengths and development needs

Education Scotland promotes cooperative and collaborative learning environments where learners have opportunities to be interactive in thinking, talking, questioning, analysing and problem solving together.

Playback supports this philosophy and Knowing Me, Knowing You provides classroom practitioners with suggested lesson content and approaches in which every effort has been made to encourage cooperative and collaborative approaches. Lesson suggestions are not intended to be prescriptive. Individual professionals will interpret, adapt and impart the suggested lessons, using their autonomy and knowledge of young people in their charge to incorporate personalisation and choice hence maximising learning opportunities for their own pupils to learn with and from each other, and indeed, often lead the learning in unforeseen directions.

Skills Development
Through Curriculum for Excellence, Scottish Education has responded to global change by developing a system to prepare young learners with the skills for life in the 21st century by providing wide ranging, relevant progressive experiences which allow them to interact with the environment, their communities and modern technology.

The Knowing Me, Knowing You programme provides practitioners with guidance on content and delivery of opportunities for active learning which build on prior learning and involve young people in their learning in a stimulating and challenging way. The programme is rooted in personal wellbeing and development which, as agreed by educationalists the world over, is fundamental to successful acquisition and progression of skills for learning, life and work whether generic or specific.

Transferrable skills e.g. communication, planning, team work, thinking skills, handling information, informed decision making, goal setting, reflecting and evaluating both self and experiences, are used routinely in this programme. Revisiting these skills within a programme of work results in consolidation at each level. Progression within these skills, as distinct from progression from one to another in a hierarchical way, can be recognised and recorded by professionals as young learners’ progress.

Pupils will have opportunities to improve their:

• literacy skills through recording written evidence of development and progression, action plans and creative writing
• numeracy skills and problem solving through money management, planning and travelling
• emotional intelligence through self-awareness of their own feelings and those of others, increased knowledge of their health and wellbeing, discussing their emotions and understanding behaviours and will be more able to empathise and show care
• personal skills and qualities through personal reflection, motivation, goal setting and planning
• reflect and review skills by evaluation of their own and others’ work and achievements
• communication skills, by expressing themselves, recognising how they interact with others, listening and decision making
• coping skills by improved management of personal relationships/friendships
• self-confidence and esteem through increased social interaction and awareness of their role in society and citizenship.