Wellbeing

Wellbeing Statement
Intent, Implementation and Impact

"Everyone to Excel through Pride and Ambition"

Intent

At Montem Academy, we believe that staff need to be happy, have a manageable workload and the right support at all levels in order to thrive in a school.

Our intent is to implement well-considered systems and strategies to ensure that during challenging times, our staff remain healthy and resilient, with access to additional support when needed.

At Montem we make great efforts to foster a culture of happiness and wellness, and are totally committed to ensuring staff stay happy and well, as this will lead to them providing the best possible education for our pupils.

Implementation

In order to achieve our aim of reducing teacher workload and positively impacting on mental health and well-being, school leaders have worked closely with the teaching staff to identify and improve areas that they felt were onerous, time-consuming or had little impact on pupils’ outcomes. Solutions to the issues that arose, along with some additional ideas, have been implemented in an attempt to improve happiness and well-being and make the role more manageable, whilst still having the maximum impact on a pupils' learning and progress.

The following strategies have been put in place to achieve this objective:

Planning:

Additional weekly PPA time (30 mins) for planning and preparation
Support provided by SLT
No expectation of detailed lesson plans
Year and Subject leaders are given additional time to monitor and assess their area of responsibility
Teachers are permitted to have their PPA time at home once per term
Extensive resources purchased to help with the planning process (White Rose Maths, Outstanding Science, Curriculum Visions, Jigsaw, Rtime etc)

Photocopying

We have employed a repographics assistant in order to reduce workload and time spent on administrative roles.

Communication

A ‘no emails after 7pm’ rule has been imposed across the school.
Minutes from weekly YTL meetings are shared.
Shared school calendar so that the whole school has access and can plan trips etc accordingly.
School App and website updated regularly with news and events.
Good notice given with regards to any form of monitoring.
Staff must be given at least 72 hours notice of any actions that they are required to completed.

Meetings

Meetings are kept to a minimum

New Staff

Comprehensive training packages delivered to all new members staff.
New staff members provided with a ‘buddy’ to offer support as and where needed.
NQTs are well supported and provided with an extensive training package.

Social

Dress-down Friday.
Termly staff events, alternating between physical activities and social gatherings.
Improved and updated staffroom with vending machines installed.

Additional

Supportive on-site school well-being team available for staff to approach and confide in as and where required.

Impact

Through our commitment to staff wellbeing, we believe the impact will be:

Happy and content staff that enjoy working at Montem.
Engaging, lively and effective lessons.
Happy and content pupils that enjoy coming to school
Staff retention is strong, providing consistent high quality education for pupils.
Time saved and workload reduced for teachers.
Onerous tasks or tasks that produced little impact eradicated.