Wellbeing

A Northampton Principal has invested in mental health training for over 40 teaching staff in an attempt to build an ‘army of fully trained coaches’ to support the entire school community.  Since joining The Duston School as Principal in 2017, Sam Strickland has placed a huge emphasis on mental health …

Christian charity, acet UK, has been awarded £120,000 over the next 3 years by Benefact Trust to develop a new ‘Esteem’ project for primary school children – helping them build healthy self-esteem and increase their knowledge and confidence so they can understand their own worth, build positive friendships and know how …

New figures published today reveal that while young people’s wellbeing has deteriorated alarmingly since the pandemic, it has unexpectedly improved significantly for thousands of students with special needs. A study of almost 11,000 students in 52 mainstream state secondary schools across the UK has found that despite the pandemic adversely …

NHS Grampian’s Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Team is one of four across Scotland currently trialing the success of computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) programmes for the parents, teachers and carers of anxious children and young people, as well as for young people themselves. If successful, the availability …

Military children’s charity Little Troopers, has uploaded a new free primary school workshop to its website so that schools can deliver the session to their service children at any time. Part of the Little Troopers at School programme, the two-hour wellbeing and mindfulness workshop is presented by well-known TV broadcasters …

The Premier League is celebrating five years of its schools’ programme, Premier League Primary Stars. Launched in 2017 and available to every primary school in England and Wales, Premier League Primary Stars uses the appeal of the Premier League and professional football clubs to support pupils in the classroom, the …

Following a successful pilot phase that began in Autumn 2021, the National Theatre’s Speak Up programme will expand to work with nearly 140,000 young people in 55 secondary schools nationwide across the next three years. Speak Up is the NT’s new national programme which sees young people, who have been …

Military children’s charity Little Troopers is inviting primary schools and their service children to sign-up to a free virtual wellbeing and mindfulness workshop on 7th July. Part of the Little Troopers at School programme, the two-hour workshop will use games, scenarios, drawing and other fun activities to bring military children …

Head of Inclusion College Marie Greenhalgh (pictured left) is calling for Senior Mental Health Leads (SMHL) in Hampshire schools and colleges to join a local regional network. Marie, who has worked at Inclusion Hampshire for 13 years, is hoping to engage with other teachers and education professionals who have completed …

On Wednesday 25 May at 4pm, the online workshop – The Education Evolution will be available for free to teachers and educators across the country aimed at equipping them with coaching strategies to create long lasting change in students and within the schools they work in. Led by Sam Moinet …