St Francis’ College, Hertfordshire discuss the benefits of sending your child to an all-through school
The need to belong is fundamental to humans. When joining an all-through school like St Francis’ College, you automatically belong to a community for fifteen years (and beyond!). You become one of the family, and the sense of people knowing you and you knowing them is comforting.
R.B. King (2015) concludes that a sense of “relatedness” improves academic outcomes and, more importantly, well-being. Relatedness is the feeling that we are special and important within our social circle, and our school emanates this family feel ? in fact, it?s exactly what our visitors say about us!
Find out more about St Francis’ College, Hertfordshire on our Schools Directory Being part of a school community from Kindergarten to Sixth Form also increases this feeling of relatedness. “Children with secure attachments to their caregivers exhibit better overall functioning,” say Bergin & Bergin (2009).
Above, St Francis’ College in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire
In an all-through school like ours, there is time to develop these care-giver bonds, and parents, staff and children work together to create a triangle of powerful care-giving. It is an exceptionally strong triad for supporting wellbeing, and after all, happy children are successful children.
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