City of Edinburgh’s Health and Wellbeing programme ‘Building Resilience’ aims to take children on a personal journey to look at what influences their mental health and emotional wellbeing.

Depute Headteacher, Carolyn Anstruther, led an extremely well received Emotional and Mental Health Curriculum Evening for parents on Thursday 14th May 2015.

Ms Anstruther has been helping P4B to learn all about the brain, its functions and how it affects learning. Tuesday has been ‘Brain Day’ in 4B! Find out more on the P4 Class Page.   Ms Anstruther has been teaching the children some methods to help them remember things better. At the end of every … Continue reading Growth Mindset

Emotions Talk had been used in P5 for several years by Support for Learning Specialist Ms Rhona Kennedy very successfully so Depute Headteacher Ms Carolyn Anstruher arranged a CPD session for all staff earlier in 2016 and it has now been adopted throughout the school.

Support for Learning Specialist Ms Paula Gilhooly leads our Nurture Group with Pupil Support Assistant Mrs Helen Anderson.

Support for Learning Specialist Ms Rhona Kennedy leads our Seasons for Growth programme which aims to build the resilience of children who are dealing with significant loss or change.