PWA-Durham Cathedral Schools Foundation-DH1 4SZ-27/Feb/2026

Areas for further development

The SIA lead is now aware of all the requirements of the award process and know how to demonstrate impact in order to achieve the award next time. The school reports that they have the data available to show impact, so they now need to analyse that data to demonstrate impact.

Award term ref

Pupil Wellbeing Award

Confirm the recommendation

0

Overall comments

The school is clearly providing some excellent opportunities for pupils to develop and promote their wellbeing (their intent and implementation were very clear), but the award process has not been followed sufficiently for the benchmarks to show measurable impact. The validation meeting time was used to talk the SIA lead through what needs to be done to achieve the award, and she is now clear about what impact evidence to show; the school hopes to submit again in the future with the impact data to demonstrate the work they have done. Useful articles from the SIA website were shared to guide the school with measuring and evidencing impact.

School ref

Durham Cathedral Schools Foundation-DH1 4SZ

Validator benchmark comments

Benchmarks ref

PWA - Benchmark 1 - Promote positive attitudes to physical and mental health and wellbeing across the school

Comments on impact identified during validation

Evidence was insufficient to show impact for this benchmark.

Benchmarks ref

PWA - Benchmark 3 - Promote emotional health and wellbeing across the curriculum

Comments on impact identified during validation

Evidence was insufficient to show impact for this benchmark.

Benchmarks ref