Oakthorpe Primary School in Leicestershire has had a keen focus on improving children’s wellbeing and resilience for the last six years. This started in response to the needs of children and the community to develop a language for learning and to enhance learning opportunities. The school is situated in the old coalfields of the Midlands and was then inspected by OFSTED as Satisfactory. It was identified that children’s aspirations needed to be raised. Recently, through partnership with Worth-it and the setting up of the new Oval Learning Multi Academy Trust (MAT), we have begun to unpick how the work we have embedded in our everyday practice impacts upon the cognitive processes of learning. The school was aware of the lack of evidence in how to foster positive attitudes in children, so being a regional winner of the 2015 DfE Character Awards gave us the opportunity to further explore what it meant to develop children’s wellbeing. Since this work, there has been a greater emphasi
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