Relationships and Wellbeing Education

Intent

At our school, we believe that mental wellbeing and healthy relationships form the foundation for successful learning and happy lives. We use the myHappymind Plus programme as a key part of our Relationships and Wellbeing Education curriculum because it is rooted in positive psychology, neuroscience, and evidence-based practice. It aligns with the statutory requirements for Relationships Education while also supporting our wider aim of nurturing confident, resilient, and emotionally literate children.

Our intent is to ensure that every child develops a positive sense of self, understands how their brain works, and learns how to build strong relationships based on empathy, respect, and trust. The programme enables pupils to recognise and manage their emotions, celebrate their strengths, practise gratitude, and develop skills such as goal-setting, teamwork, and perseverance. These are essential not just for school life, but for lifelong wellbeing and success.

By embedding myHappymind Plus across all year groups, we aim to create a consistent, whole-school approach to mental health and relationships that empowers children with the knowledge, language, and strategies they need to thrive. We want every child to feel safe, valued, and prepared for the challenges of the wider world.

Implementation

The myHappymind Plus curriculum is delivered weekly in every class, from Early Years to Year 6. Lessons are taught by the class teacher using high-quality digital resources that include engaging videos, interactive activities, and discussion prompts. Each unit builds sequentially on the last, ensuring progression in children’s understanding of themselves and their relationships with others.

The programme is structured around five core modules—Meet Your Brain, Celebrate, Appreciate, Relate, and Engage. In addition, content specifically designed to meet the DfE’s Relationships Education requirements and the non-statutory PSHE objectives, is delivered through the plus modules: My Happy Body, My Happy Relationships, My Happy World, My Happy Places. Lessons explicitly teach topics such as healthy friendships and families, respecting differences, and managing conflict, as well as digital and media literacy, healthy lifestyles and economic wellbeing. Teachers reinforce the key messages through follow-up activities, visual prompts, and regular use of shared vocabulary across the school.

In addition, children use journals to reflect on their learning, practise mindfulness techniques such as ‘happy breathing’, and celebrate their own and others’ character strengths. Parents are supported through access to a dedicated app, which helps to extend the learning beyond the classroom and promote shared language and strategies at home.

Core Modules

Meet Your Brain: Understanding how your brain works and how to ensure we look after it so that we can manage our emotions and be at our best. Growth mindset is a key part of this too.

Celebrate: Understanding your unique Character Strengths and learning to celebrate them. This is a fantastic module for building self-esteem.

Appreciate: Understanding why gratitude matters and how you can develop gratitude as a habit. Gratitude is key to well-being and resilience and we're all about making it a lifelong strategy!

Relate: Understanding why positive relationships matter and how to build them. We're focussed on the building blocks of good relationships and friendships.

Engage: Understanding how to set meaningful goals that matter and how to stay resilient in times of challenge. This module is all about building self-esteem and resilience too.

Supporting Families: The MyHappyMind App

To strengthen the link between school and home, we offer all families access to the myHappymind Parent App. This free app mirrors the content children are learning in school and provides simple, practical ways for parents and carers to reinforce key wellbeing messages at home. Through short videos and activities, families can learn together about topics such as character strengths, gratitude, resilience, and managing emotions. The app helps to create a shared language around mental health and relationships, building consistency between school and home, and supporting children’s personal development in everyday life.

Parent App Video link: https://myhappymind.lpages.co/myhappymind-parent-app-introduction/

Curriculum Policies

Please find our Relationships and Wellbeing Education policy below:

• Relationships and Wellbeing Education - Currently Being Updated