With the return of examinations in Summer 2022, this blog series hears a range of expert voices who share their insight and advice covering wellbeing approaches for students and teachers in an often uncertain post-pandemic world. Read our series ‘Looking after students and staff wellbeing during exam season’ Part One: Thomas Michael, a Safeguarding and […]
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Our school is strongly focused on well-being for both pupils and staff, and understands that if staff well-being or morale is low then this can impact teaching and learning. Since returning to school and staff have found pupils increasingly aware of their own well-being, too. PSHE lessons often discuss well-being and promote and encourage strategies […]
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Boost wellbeing in the first weeks of term with our list of art and craft themed creative reading recommendations for Reception to Year 6.
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Sarah Eggleton has been an English teacher for 12 years. She currently works at a Secondary School in inner city Manchester where she is Head of English and Assistant Headteacher; with responsibility for marking and feedback, metacognition, literacy, parent engagement and staff development. Although Covid-19 has created many, many challenges, one of the positives to […]
Read more Mike Armiger works within many areas but particularly; young people affected by trauma and emotional distress, care experienced children, suicide prevention and sport. Mike is a former Head of Educational Provisions specifically for young people affected by trauma, care-experienced children and children with SEND and mental health needs. He also works with universities on models […]
Read more Richard Daniel Curtis is an internationally renowned social and emotional skills expert and mentor passionate about helping millions understand developmental psychology and mental health. It often feels like the responsibility for student wellbeing falls to schools. However, wellbeing is global and we all have a part to play in that. Wellbeing doesn’t stop at the […]
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Andrew Cowley is an experienced primary school teacher and leader and the author of The Wellbeing Toolkit (May 2019) and The Wellbeing Curriculum (October 2021) both published by Bloomsbury Education. Education has seen many strategies come and go in the past fifty years or so, relating to how children learn to read, how they should […]
Read more Sarah Eggleton has been an English teacher for 12 years. She currently works at a Secondary School in inner city Manchester where she is Head of English and Assistant Headteacher; with responsibility for marking and feedback, metacognition, literacy, parent engagement and staff development. There’s a wonderful saying doing the rounds on my social media at […]
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Without a doubt, recent events have propelled student wellbeing into the spotlight. I’ve seen with my own eyes how even a ‘happy go lucky and adaptable’ five-year-old can struggle after months locked away from her newly found school friends with just her middle-aged parents to interact and play with! (I won’t even mention the effect […]
Read moreIt is almost impossible to read about the pandemic in the UK news without coming across some reference to concern regarding pupils’ mental health as a result of lockdown. Whether or not you believe the accuracy of the scale of the reported issue there is no doubt that, as with adults, young people have found […]
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