Cambridge Primary Wellbeing is a holistic programme that encourages learners to reflect on and understand themselves, foster positive relationships with others and empowers them to be safe and active participants in an ever changing world.
Primary learners are in a period of development where they are learning new things, exploring the world around them, and developing important social and emotional skills. When learners have a positive sense of wellbeing, they are more likely to feel confident, motivated and engaged in their learning.
What will students learn?
In Cambridge Primary Wellbeing, learners:
- develop their understanding of factors that contribute to their emotional and physical wellbeing
- practise a wide range of strategies for managing their emotional and physical wellbeing
- explore a wide range of interpersonal relationships, including friendships, family, the importance of community and social responsibility
- demonstrate positive expressive and receptive communication skills when interacting with others
- are empowered to manage their own safety and respond to change in a wide range of situations
- explore how they can contribute to the wellbeing of others.
How is the programme taught?
The programme is designed to be flexible to suit your context. You can:
- teach the learning objectives as a standalone subject
- integrate the learning objectives into the teaching and learning of the rest of your curriculum
- do both.
Each learning objective can be taught independently of the others. However, Cambridge Primary Wellbeing has been designed as a holistic programme where learning objectives from across the curriculum can be taught together to provide a richer teaching and learning experience. We know that intervention for specific wellbeing needs should be timely for learners in order to have the greatest impact. Therefore, our schemes of work also provide examples of spontaneous teachable moments in addition to the more structured suggested teaching ideas.
How is Cambridge Primary Wellbeing assessed?
There are no Cambridge Primary Progression Tests or Cambridge Primary Checkpoint Tests for this subject.
In keeping with the principles of this curriculum, we encourage learner self-assessment as much as possible. This develops learners’ self-awareness, and empowers them to help themselves improve and progress. Teachers can also give learners formative feedback on the skills they want learners to develop. This can be through discussion, observation and lesson outputs where teachers discuss with learners ‘what went well’ and how they can improve further.
The Cambridge Wellbeing Check
The Cambridge Wellbeing Check is a teacher assessment of students’ feelings. It helps you to:
- Assess students’ day-to-day wellbeing
- Monitor the times when they might be feeling low, stressed, pressured by exams, or coping with change
- Teach, explore and evaluate your students’ wellbeing
- Improve your teaching with actionable reports
- Help students feel good and do better.
Learn more
Support to help you deliver the course
Visit our Cambridge Primary support site to download a wide range of resources to help you plan and deliver the course:
- Curriculum Framework
- Progression grid
- Online training
- Schemes of work
- Teacher Guide
- Digital Teacher’s Resources
Online introductory training is available to support teachers delivering these subjects. You can book a place now using our events and training calendar.
We also work with a range of third party publishers to produce high-quality endorsed resources to support this framework.