Wellbeing
At Shenstone School, we are committed to promoting a caring and supportive environment where everyone is valued and respected.
We promote a positive ethos, based on the understanding that all staff and children need the foundations of positive mental health to be able to fulfil their potential academically, personally and socially.
In addition to promoting positive mental health and well-being, we recognise that we may need additional support to maintain or develop good mental health. By developing and implementing practical, relevant and effective mental health and well-being policies and procedures, we can promote a safe and stable environment for everyone affected both directly and indirectly by mental ill health.
We achieved the reaccreditation for Optimus wellbeing award in January 2023 where everything we do as a school to support wellbeing and mental health was celebrated. The information gathered to achieve this reaccreditation then allowed us to continue to think about further development of our wider school community Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
Family Well Being
Dawn Lyman, Shenstone Family Wellbeing Lead
Dawn helps parents and carers with signposting their children for personalised external support. She arranges various sessions/coffee mornings so parents can connect/benefit from useful topic discussions.
- Parents/Carers Health and Wellbeing workshop Time for self-care on Wednesday 16th October 2024
- SaLT ran a Signalong Parent Workshop on Friday 11th October IN PERSON or Wednesday 13th November (VIRTUAL)
- Parents/Carers Early Years Foundation Stage Learning Through Play Workshop on Wednesday 9th October 2024
- Parent Wellbeing Coffee Morning on Friday 7th June 2024
- MOVE Coffee Morning to support parents who have children with physical needs on the MOVE program on Wednesday 8th May 2024
- Internet Safety Workshop on 16th April 2024. This workshop supported parents with filtering, online content, screen time and communication
- Online Safety Parent course "Protect pupils online!" on Tuesday 11th February (VIRTUAL)
- Literacy Coffee Morning for Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) on Wednesday 26th February 2025
- Developing Reading Coffee Morning at our Crayford site on Wednesday 26th March 2025 (10.00am)
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Shenstone School also offers Parent Tours for prospective parents, if you are interested in attending, please email office@shenstone-tkat.org for more information.
If you ever have any queries or concerns, always drop Dawn an email, give the school office a call and they will ask Dawn to get in touch or call Dawn directly on 07849 648369 during school hours Monday-Thursday.
BBC Children in Need 2024
We celebrated BBC Children in Need day on 15th November 2024!
Lots of children and staff wore yellow / themed outfits and looked amazing, we had lots of fun.
https://www.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/
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Friends of Shenstone Winter Ball
The Friends of Shenstone Winter Ball took place on 19th October 2024 at Danson Boat House with a three course meal with wine, live auction and DJ. Everyone who joined looked stunning and the auction was so successful that between that and some extra donations, we raised a super sum of £5,500.
Huge thanks to the FOS volunteers for putting together such a wonderful event.
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Black History Month 2024
The pupils were immersed in a range of activities to celebrate. We had African drumming, art by black artists and musicians and much more.
As a school we embrace all cultures and celebrate our diverse community.
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Harvest Festival October 2024
Our Primary children and staff took part in class assemblies to celebrate Harvest. The children were able to join in with songs / listen to music.
We did not ask for any donations but encouraged those that wanted to do so to support their local foodbank.
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#HelloYellow / World Mental Health Day 2024
We held our Non-Uniform Day on 10th October to raise vital awareness for the charity YoungMinds. By taking part in #HelloYellow we can help to show our young people that they’re not alone with their mental health. By wearing yellow and raising awareness of the charity YoungMinds, who work to help young people to feel less alone.
It was fantastic to see so many children and staff wearing yellow.
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Jeans for Genes Day 2024
On 20th September we asked pupils and staff to wear their denim to raise awareness of the charity Jeans for Genes!
Jeans for Genes is the annual fund raising event for the genetic disorder community.
For further information please email – hello@jeansforgenes.org
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Friends of Shenstone Summer Fete 2024 'Tommy's Summer Fete' / Non Uniform Day sponsored by EweMove Bexley & Darford Boroughs
The Friends of Shenstone Summer Fete 2024 'Tommy's Summer Fete' took place on 22nd June at our Crayford site. This year's fete was held in memory of our beloved Tommy.
We held a Non-Uniform day on 24th May, asking for donations for our bottle stall, thank you to all who kindly sent in, we very much appreciate it.
Thank you to the FOS for organising and all of our helpers (staff and parents) and to all who came along. We hope you had lots of fun!
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Pride Month (June 2024)
Pupils participated in a range of activities and looked at famous figures within the LGBTQ+ community, explored different family dynamics and enjoyed rainbow art activities.
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Windrush Celebrations 2024/Secondary Carnival
All of our classes had a great time preparing for our Carnival on 25th June to celebrate Windrush.
Thank you to Secondary Parents for joining us, the students have really enjoyed making all the props for upcoming events, working hard and having lots of fun at the same time.
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2024 Shenstone Belvedere Sports Day
PM class were honoured to host the 2024 Shenstone Belvedere Sports Day on 20th June. We managed to put aside the emotional pain of knowing this was the last sports event we ever would hold at this fantastic sporting arena, and LG, DB and PM classes did battle on a range of activities.
DB class were the overall winners but all of the students did amazingly well.
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Primary Pupils Sports Day 2024
Our Sidcup Sports Day took place on 14th June and Crayford on 21st June.
It was lovely to be able have the Parents/Carers in to see their children taking part in various activities.
Thank you to all who came along.
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School Journey for year 6 pupils 2024
We had an amazing time on our Year 6 Residential School Journey at Fairplay House Outdoor Centre in Essex on 7th/8th May. The weather was glorious, the children and staff enjoyed lots of fresh air, country walks, camp fires, zip wire activities and archery as well as lots more...
Big thanks to our super year 6 pupils and fabulous staff team who supported this trip.
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World Down Syndrome Day 2024
We celebrated World Down Syndrome Day on 21st March and were proud to support this year’s message ‘End The Stereotypes’.
Believe it or not, socks get people talking! Thank you to everyone who wore mismatched socks or crazy/colourful socks.
The idea was to start a conversation, so when people asked about your socks you could tell them, “I’m wearing them to raise awareness of Down syndrome”.
And then you can tell them everything you want them to know about Down syndrome.
https://www.worlddownsyndromeday.org/
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Comic Relief Red Nose Day 2024
We supported Comic Relief Red Nose Day on 15th March 2024, the theme was 'Let’s all get Reddy and have a fun day'! Dressing up was optional. Everyone looked amazing and had a great day.
Comic Relief supports incredible projects and organisations that are making a difference for people across the UK and around the world.
https://www.comicrelief.com/rednoseday/
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World Book Day 2025
We celebrated World Book Day on 6th March, everyone looked amazing, thank you to pupils and staff for not only dressing up but also sharing your favourite books and stories with us. Crayford had lots of fun enjoying activities embracing our Shenstone Love of Reading and Sidcup collaborated with Royal Park sharing a story. Dressing up was optional, we always have lots of dressing up outfits available in school should children wish to wear them.
Secondary students explored William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and made hats/ masks, we asked them to wear uniforms as usual.
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Children's Mental Health Week 2025
Week of 3rd February – Shenstone School supported Children's Mental Health Week - "Know Yourself, Grow Yourself".
Children's Mental Health Week is a mental health awareness week that empowers, equips and gives a voice to all children and young people in the UK.
Children's Mental Health Week was launched in 2015 and each year, hundreds of schools, children, parents and carers take part. The week aimed to help children and young people develop self-awareness and resilience.
https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/
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Safer Internet Day 2025
We supported Safer Internet Day on 5th February to raise awareness of a safer and better internet for all, and especially for children and young people. Serina Lindsay, Assistant Head Teacher also delivered a virtual "Online Safety Parent course, Protect pupils online!" for Parents/Carers on 11th February.
Safer Internet Day takes place in February of each year to raise awareness of a safer and better internet for all, especially for children and young people, this year’s theme was based around ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online‘
If you would like any symbols you feel will support your child online, then please let your class teacher know and we will get some sent out to you.
For more information, please visit https://www.shenstone-tkat.org/safeguarding/online-safety
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NSPCC Number Day
We supported NSPCC Number Day on 7th February. This year's theme was 'Dress for Digits', pupils and staff could wear an item of clothing with a number on it (football shirt, cap, netball shirt or even a onesie!)...or get even more creative by dressing in a maths or numbers theme, but this was completely optional.
We had a fun day of maths activities and were delighted to be supporting the NSPCC by taking part. Number Day is a great way to make maths fun and bring about a positive, ‘can-do’ attitude towards it.
Everything the NSPCC does protects children today and prevents abuse tomorrow. The NSPCC need our support more than ever. By raising awareness, we can help to promote vital services such as Childline – the helpline that’s always there for children and young people whatever their problem or concern. On average, a child contacts Childline every 45 seconds.
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/
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Parents Open Week (Spring 2025)
Week of 10th-13th February.
Thank you for joining us during our primary sites Open Week, it was lovely to see so many of you. We hope you enjoyed your class session.
We held a Parents Evening for our secondary students on 13th February, it was fantastic to be able to share your children's progress and achievements to date.
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School Festive Productions 2024
Our Crayford Festive Productions 'The Alien's First Christmas' took place in December, as always our Superstars were superb! The children and staff put lots of time into rehearsing, huge thanks to staff and our superstars for their hard work.
We invited Sidcup Parents/Carers to join us for Class Festive Celebrations! We hope you had a lovely time.
Instead of the Secondary Carol Service we held Festive Celebrations on site on the last day of term, we all had a fabulous time.
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Shenstone School's Christmas Fair 2023 / Non Uniform Day sponsored by EweMove Bexley & Dartford Boroughs
We were overwhelmed with your generosity from our Non-Uniform Day on 10th November, we received lots of donations for the Sweet Raffle stall and items for our White Elephant stall for the Christmas Fair on 18th November, the Friends of Shenstone raised over £1600.
Thank you to all who helped out and for the great turn out on the day
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'I Am' Festival parade and Exhibition 2023
We were very excited to participate in the multicultural ‘I am’ Arts Festival in June (Sidcup's on 14th June and Crayford on 15th June). Children participated in activities linked to different countries around the world and created artwork that was displayed in an exhibition at school.
We invited Parents/Carers to come along to watch the multicultural parade that the children took part in and then look at all the lovely art work produced by the children.
We were lucky enough to have a local artist come in and produce a 3D piece with the children too!
On the day, we also invited children to dress in their cultural dress, or an outfit or costume of their choice or school uniform. The children created a flag from the country they are from/ originate from to represent.