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 […]
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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 moreBy Jennifer Chang Wathall Have you ever been in the situation where your students come to class a little too energetic to be able to focus on the task at hand? Or when your students arrive from a break or lunch and they are just not ready for the learning space? Perhaps your students, based […]
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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Many of the students in my examination classes are struggling to engage in online learning and need ways to boost their motivation. They are unsure of the merit of spending time learning new content and practicing examination questions, as they feel that their grades will be generated from data that has already been collected. It […]
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A game of snakes and ladders – that is how my 9-year-old son describes lockdown. This piqued my interest, and I was drawn away from my online virtual marking and gazed at him across the kitchen table to ask him to explain his metaphor. Zac is in Year 5 in an expanding multiphase academy, where […]
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Award-winning author and wellbeing curriculum author, Adrian Bethune, outlines how your school can measure wellbeing in 10 simple steps.
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Wellbeing experts outline some practical ways for teachers to learn new skills and strategies to improve their resilience and adaption during challenging times.
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Louise Aukland examines the current evidence surrounding wellbeing in young children and offers advice to help teachers embed wellbeing support into their lessons.
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5 top tips to encourage mindfulness in young children, to better support their mental health
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