No rescuing
Do not do for someone, that they can do for themselves. This is a life, teaching, leading, parental sentiment or wisdom that I have long held important. It sits along side the notion of “no rescuing.” This is the focus …
mental health
The complexities of mental health and wellbeing (for schools and colleges)
This week’s professional learning focused on the importance of a pupils mental health and wellbeing and how these two components influence a pupil’s cognitive development and learning, their physical and social health and their mental wellbeing journey through to adulthood. …
Staff Wellbeing Webinar – INSET Day
INSET today concluded with a recorded Wellbeing Webinar to be watched “in your choice of venue,” from Rhiannon Phillips-Bianco, (Year 6 Class Teacher and Wellbeing and Positive Education Leader – Rome International School, Globeducate). Teacher Wellbeing Index 2020, 74% of …
Children’s Mental Health Week
The shoes that lay outside St George’s Hall Liverpool represent the 226 children who lost their lives to suicide in 2017. It is a shocking and tragic visual representation to mark the start of Children’s Mental Health Week (4-10 Feb). …
Mental health: ‘One student told me we’d kept him alive’
The past two-three month has been potted with former staff and students getting in touch. Any leader / teacher will tell you, these updates, however they arrive, are often very special, heart-warming and affirming. This update was all of that …