Social & Emotional Wellbeing
- To help build self-understanding, confidence and self-sufficiency through exploration of individual interests.
- To create a high-challenge/low-stress learning environment through the teacher’s understanding of each student’s ability.
- To promote positive interactions and empathetic social skills through group working and weekly outward bound team-building activities.
- To have a focus on Self-Understanding, Social Interaction and Relationship with the Environment.
After many years of education a child should have completed a process of self-questioning and self-understanding leading to self-sufficiency. They should also have acquired an awareness of their personal strengths along with a commitment to cultivate their passions, which will provide direction for their life after school.
The pupils will be encouraged to talk about any feelings of frustration, this practice will foster observation and reflection of how they have handled situations and how they have interacted with others.
Our approach to discipline will be to focus rigorously on the causes of behavioural problems rather than endlessly having to deal with the effects. Helping the children to see that they are responsible for their own personal choices will bring awareness, self-understanding and will encourages the pupils towards self-disciplined choices.
The wellbeing of pupils largely depends on the quality of the environment. If they feel safe, under the supervision of caring and nurturing adults, they will feel secure and accepted. Ensuring this happens is the first responsibility any school should strive to meet – it will be taken very seriously at TAGS.
The community will value respect and communication and will allow time for frustrations to be aired, for hurt feelings to be acknowledged and for a solution to be sought.
If conflict arises the children will be encouraged to discuss the issue, either privately or during the daily meetings to ensure the school rules are being adhered to.
Relationship to the Environment
A child’s wellbeing also hinges on the connection they have with their surrounding physical environment. Whilst that means a comfortable learning environment with places for play, places for quiet reading and spaces to discuss and socialise – it also means a connection to the outside world, in nature and in what we are doing to preserve and sustain a healthy planet. This will be expressed in our Environmental Stewardship Program.