Personal Development

We are proud to welcome every child and family to our brilliant school.

We aim to help students grow in confidence and resilience here and now, drawing on experiences and lessons from then, to prepare them for the opportunities and challenges next, enabling them to thrive both personally and within their wider communities there. Through self-awareness and reflection, we aim to foster individuals who are ready to adapt, lead, and contribute positively to society.

At Halwin, we believe in developing the whole child and as such we place high importance on fostering pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

Supporting children’s emotional health and wellbeing is one of the most important aspects of our role.  We have a member of staff who is trained in ‘emotional first aid’, and DSL & DDSL who work with individuals and groups of children to support their emotional wellbeing, helping children to build confidence and resilience.

Throughout their years of learning, children learn about social justice and the power of positive contribution. This is achieved through ensuring both are carefully woven throughout our curriculum.

We have adopted ‘rules for life’ to build a strong culture. These help children to learn to follow the British Values, thus preparing them to be successful in modern British society.

Through assemblies, Lyfta time, educational visits, discussions, and literature, children have the opportunity to learn more about the world/country/county/town in which they live, and the people that make up our community. Through our PSHE curriculum, children learn about healthy relationships and the diversity of relationships; this learning is carefully sequenced and planned to ensure it is not only progressive but also age appropriate.

We also teach PSHE and SRE across all year groups; these areas of learning are both sequential and progressive. The school uses the Kapow Personal, Social, Health Education Scheme for the curriculum learning and further work around online safety is covered in the Digital Learning Cornwall Computing Scheme. Children learn about people of different faiths and cultures, along with how to keep themselves safe from harm, including keeping safe online.  Throughout their learning children are encouraged to share their views, listen carefully to others and respect and understand that others’ views may differ from their own, along with developing a thirst and fascination about their community and the world around them.

Children are keen to take on roles of responsibility. These roles are progressive and start with playing an active role in their class as monitors and develop to taking a wider active role across the school as Play Leaders, Eco Warriors and School Councillors. Children learn to become active citizens and contribute positively to Halwin and the wider community.

The school offers a selection of extra curriculum activity clubs which are very popular with the children.  Every child who wants one, is offered a club. The take up of PP children and those with SEND is at least as good as others. We also offer residential visits in Year 5 and 6 which enables the children to experience life beyond Helston and Cornwall, widening their own life experience and opening their eyes to greater cultural diversity.  These experiences have been carefully woven into our curriculum offer and include a plethora of educational visits/trips to excite, engage and generate awe and wonder.

At Halwin School, we know our children and our families well. This helps us to support them in times of difficulty from within school or signpost or refer them on to additional external support. All staff provide pastoral support for the children in their classes. The staff are vigilant in identifying those in need and the school proactive in supporting them and their families. We have a weekly visit from the Primary Mental Health Support Worker to whom we refer those children in need of focussed work.