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Health and Wellbeing

The health and wellbeing of both pupils and staff is crucial to a successful and healthy school. We offer a range of best practice articles and case studies focusing on supporting staff wellbeing and morale as well as pupils' mental health, wellbeing and happiness.

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Coronavirus: Mental health support on offer for teachers

A number of resources have been published to help safeguard the wellbeing and mental health of school staff who are on the front line of the coronavirus response.

Wellbeing Award for Schools

Schools are taking the initiative in nurturing wellbeing and supporting better mental health via the Wellbeing Award for Schools. Philippa Stobbs explains

Professionals needed for attachment research

A team of researchers at UCL and the University of York and are conducting a survey of current practice in the UK for 0 to 13-year-old children with or at risk of attachment problems.

Resources encourage pupils to explore issues of online identity

How young people manage their identity online is to be the focus for the next Safer Internet Day, with organisers offering a range of new resources for schools.

Therapeutic teaching: A calm start to the year...

It can be easy to forget that some of the pupils in your classroom may not have had good summer holidays. Shahana Knight offers some advice

Anti-Bullying Week 2019: Change Starts With Us...

We have collective responsibility to reduce bullying and this year’s Anti-Bullying Week is encouraging us all to take this responsibility seriously. Olivia Foster explains more about what is planned

Bike to School Week

Schools across the UK are being asked to take part in the 2019 Bike to School Week from September 23 to 27.

Family alcohol misuse

A learning programme to support children who are affected by parental alcohol misuse has been launched by The Children’s Society.

Kids Walk with Shaun the Sheep!

Road safety charity Brake is teaming up with Shaun the Sheep for its Kids Walk event on Wednesday, June 26.

Teaching mental health

As SATs approach, how can we teach children about their mental health and handling any pressure that they may be feeling? Continuing her therapeutic schools series, Shahana Knight discusses ways to incorporate teaching about mental health and wellbeing into the school week

Transition support for pupils and families

The Starting Secondary School campaign has been launched offering support to parents, teachers and students to help make the primary to secondary school transition as smooth as possible.

Therapeutic schools: Some quick wellbeing ideas

Continuing her series on creating therapeutic school environments, Shahana Knight offers three ideas for encouraging wellbeing skills and healthy mindsets

Mentally Healthy Schools website offers support for schools

?Mentally Healthy Schools is a website that brings together information, advice and resources to help primary schools understand and promote children’s mental health and wellbeing.

Healthy: Inside and Out

A range of resources has been made available to help schools mark Children’s Mental Health Week, which takes place from February 4 to 10, 2019.

Tackling cyber-bullying

Understanding the nature of cyber-bullying and what can be done to support pupils is a vital part of safeguarding practice. Drawing on her research, Dr Lucy Betts has published resources to support schools

Child safety: Clever Never Goes

The ‘stranger danger’ message is outdated and unhelpful. A new Lottery-funded initiative – Clever Never Goes – is offering schools a more intelligent approach to personal safety for pupils. Emma Lee-Potter reports

Mental health support

Resources have been released to support teachers and school staff when it comes to issues of pupil mental health and wellbeing.

Bullying: We have a choice...

How can we use discussions about respectful disagreement to help stop bullying? Ahead of Anti-Bullying Week, Martha Evans considers how schools can support children to ‘Choose Respect’

#HandsUp4HealthyMinds

To mark World Mental Health Day, Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England is launching a new set of free resources, designed to support young people aged 8 to 24.

Creating a therapeutic school: Classroom environments

In a new regular series for Headteacher Update, expert Shahana Knight will advise schools on supporting the emotional and mental health of children and staff, offering easy-to-implement and cost-effective activities. Here she focuses on the classroom environment and a useful whole-school idea

Resources to support PSHE and relationships education

From the Sex Education Forum to the PSHE Association and the NSPCC, there are a range of quality resources out there for low or no cost to help schools deliver effective PSHE and relationships education.?

RSE: Getting parents on board

Statutory relationships education is approaching and schools will want to have their parents’ support for the new-look curriculum. Lucy Emmerson advises

Air pollution

More than four in 10 children living in urban areas (43 per cent) are concerned about the levels of air pollution near their school, a survey has shown.

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