Student Wellbeing

We are committed at Durham Academy to making it our mission to promote resilience, positive wellbeing and mental health for all our pupils and staff. We understand wellbeing to be a state of being comfortable, healthy and happy.

We strive to create a very inclusive environment where every individual is valued for their contribution to our school community. Positive relationships we know are key to making students feel valued and happy. Again this is reflected in our core ethos and culture where we want our students to be confident, ambitious, respectful and proud individuals for their achievements and who they are as individuals. We want students to feel valued but equally to feel comfortable and able to share any of their concerns when they may need to.

We understand however that wellbeing at times can be challenging. We provide support in school through our dedicated tutors and committed pastoral team but also have an on site school councillor who regularly meets with students. Our pastoral team works with many external agencies on a day to day basis to support our students and families and get the support that you maty need. Durham County Council website sign posts other local and national support available which can be accessed here.

At Durham Academy, we promote wellbeing by:

Being a smaller than average and very inclusive school
Having a culture where praise is valued over criticism
Developing positive relationships with students where every child matters
All students belong to a Tutor groups and have a tutor who meets them daily
Having a very effective pastoral team which includes a school councillor on site, Education And Welfare Officer (EWO) and experienced safeguarding team
Delivering an effective PSCHE curriculum
Assemblies and tutor activities are designed to support student awareness wellbeing