The Darwin Mindfulness Hub is our exclusive space for Darwin pupils. Led by trained teachers, the Hub offers mindfulness classes throughout the academic year. Pupils are invited to take part in our 8-week mindfulness courses, offered twice a year in September and January, alongside weekly mindfulness sessions during term time.
Emotional maturity and focused attention are among the most valuable life skills in the 21st century. By cultivating mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and self-mastery from a young age, we prepare our pupils with the life skills, confidence, and inner strength to flourish in school, relationships, and the wider world.
Mindfulness is the practice of directing our attention to the present moment: our breathing, our body sensations, thoughts, emotions, or even everyday activities like walking and eating. Being able to step back from the busy-ness of habitual activity and the relentless chatter of the mind, offers us space and clarity to make better choices and to respond more skilfully to whatever the present-moment throws at us.
At Darwin School, we believe education should nourish every part of who our children are— their mind, their heart, and their inner world.
At Darwin School, our mindfulness teachers are trained by the Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP), one of the leading providers of mindfulness training for schools in the United Kingdom.
With over a decade of experience, MiSP has helped more than 1.1 million children and young people learn mindfulness skills. It is widely recognised for its high-quality mindfulness programmes, which are grounded in research from clinical psychology, education, and neuroscience, and written by teachers, for teachers. This ensures that mindfulness is taught in a way that is age-appropriate, practical, engaging, and meaningful for all pupils.
MiSP’s acclaimed curricula include Paws b for primary school pupils and .b for secondary school students. Through MiSP training, our teachers are equipped to deliver mindfulness lessons for our pupils, using the same trusted curricula that are widely taught in schools across the UK.