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Four ways to create calmer classrooms

How can we create calmer classrooms in the midst of a mental health crisis? Headteacher Rachel Jones discusses her school's approaches to improving pupil wellbeing
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Like many other schools across the UK, it is worrying to see the increase in mental health issues in children and young people post-pandemic and the challenges our pupils are facing.

Early intervention is critical, and after figures showing hundreds of thousands of children sitting on mental health waiting lists – waiting an average of 187 days for mental health support – I wanted to look at how we could help in our school.

Post-pandemic, we noticed that there were some increased challenges with home-to-school transition that had an impact on the start of the school day and often delayed the start of teaching.

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