Links with the Ofsted Inspection Framework
Adopting strategies and practices that seek to improve pupil health and wellbeing offers important benefits for whole-school effectiveness as well as for pupils.
The table below summarises how pupil health & wellbeing links with the key judgement areas of the Ofsted inspection framework.
Achievement of pupils
- An 11% boost in results in standardised achievement tests has been linked to school programmes that directly improve students’ social and emotional learning
- Higher attaining schools have greater levels of participation in physical activity and sports programmes than lower performing schools
Quality of teaching
- Systematic structured teaching of social and emotional life-skills and values throughout school life has the potential to in-crease emotional wellbeing and academic achievement
Quality of leadership in, and management of, the school
- Ofsted reported a close correlation between the grade that schools “were awarded for overall effectiveness in their last section 5 inspection and their grade for PSHE education”
- The quality and nature of relationships – spanning pupil-to-pupil and pupil-to teacher relationships are key to engendering a sense of belonging and pupils liking school, which influences student wellbeing and readiness to learn
Behaviour and safety of pupils at the school
- Pupils’ sense of belonging to school is a key determinant of their wellbeing and is higher in schools where children feel safe and have lower levels of bullying. These are also more likely to be high achieving schools
Source: Public Health England Bulletin November 2014 – The link between pupil health and wellbeing and attainment.
