Health & Wellbeing

We take the wellbeing of our pupils very seriously at King’s College and celebrate a strong awareness of healthy eating across the school. Additional exercise is encouraged outside of PE and we run an annual Health & Wellbeing Week to promote a healthy lifestyle within our immediate community and beyond.

Lunch and snack boxes are often screened, while Kids Kanteen provide both healthy hot and cold meals on-site. Our School Nurse gives talks to the children about hygiene and how to take good care of themselves, and we enjoy visits from dentists and doctors throughout the year. We offer two co-curricular activities specifically related to mindfulness, including Philosophy of Art, and our wonderful library offers the perfect space for reflective thinking, while young bookworms and happy sketchers often occupy the building’s many nooks and crannies.

Linked to the school’s Safeguarding policy, a positive behaviour ethos and excellent pastoral care, evidence points to how this awareness of maintaining a healthy lifestyle fosters a positive and happy learning environment. This page is designed to provide you with ideas and inspiration. You will find links to educational and fun websites that our staff use specifically with children in mind; there are links to local businesses in Doha who have supported us, as well as top tips for healthy lunchboxes designed by our very own Friends of King’s College Doha.

Advice for screen time management, anti-bullying, the school’s PSHE programme and remembering how to look after our environment are also included.

We trust that you will continue to support us in providing the best possible care for your children by standing by our healthy lifestyle initiative and taking time to explore this page and the many links it provides, for example:

Top Tips for Feeling Good

• Talk to someone
• Do something you enjoy
• Find ways to chill out and relax
• How to keep your cool
• Celebrate the good things in life
• Celebrate you
• Using a little help from my friends
• Remember to say ‘Thank you’

Helpful links to improve your and your children’s health and wellbeing

Healthy Food Ideas:
A Parents’ Guide to Healthy Lunchboxes

Healthy Recipes

Kings College Healthy Eating Chart

Health Week Booklet

PBS Kids
Super Kids Nutrition

Wake ‘n’ Shake ideas:
Lazytown
Fit Factor

Music to dance to:
Youtube Playlist

Yoga & Stretching:
Cosmic Kids Yoga
Frozen Yoga

Bullying:
Anti-Bullying

PSHE:
Jigsaw

Other school policies relevant to health & wellbeing:
Safeguarding at King’s College Doha

E-Safety at King’s College Doha