Wellbeing at GFA

At GEMS Founders - Masdar City, we are committed to supporting the emotional health and wellbeing of our pupils and staff. We have a supportive and caring ethos and our approach is respectful and kind, where each individual and contribution is valued.

We are committed to ensuring that we nurture a positive atmosphere for the entire GFA school community. We strive to build a feeling of belonging wherein all students feel valued and supported by staff and peers. This feeling of emotional security and belongingness increases the students’ feelings of competence, engagement, and intrinsic motivation to learn, pursue their interests, and thrive.

We appreciate that ensuring the safety and the dignity of our students within the digital world is imperative for every child’s emotional well-being. Actively teaching and prompting students to recognise and manage emotions and to resolve conflicts helps us ensure students’ emotional well-being at school. With regards to students in our care, we nurture their growth into healthy adults, by ensuring that they:

• Be healthy
• Stay safe
• Enjoy and achieve
• Make a positive contribution
• Achieve economic and mental health well-being

Promoting a healthy lifestyle is integral to our curriculum, we recognise our role in ensuring students not only are physically fit and make healthy eating choices, but they also take steps that enable them to experience mental well-being as well. As a school, we know that food is fundamental to the quality of a child’s life, not just in providing essential nutrition but in communicating and sharing positive values, attitudes, and experiences with each other. And along with this, we are also cognisant of the fact that physical activity, sleep and learning to manage our time all contribute to a child’s overall mental well-being.

Consequently, GFA does its utmost to teach students the key points about living a healthy life. It is only through a whole-school approach that the key messages about physical and mental health can be achieved.   

Our counsellors are available to all students, staff and parents to help a person developing a mental health problem or cope in a crisis.

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