We infect them with our passion – and our stress
Dr Emma Kell, head of department in a north London school, and author of How to Survive in Teaching: Without imploding, exploding or walking away, offers some tips for teachers in the classroom.
Tag Archives: Mental Health
Getting to grips with unwellness
Georgia Holleran suggests establishing the full costs of ‘unwellness’ among staff, and ways of countering the stressors.
Safer Internet Day: teaching digital empathy
The UK Safer Internet Centre hopes to provide opportunities to empower children and young people to use technology responsibly, respectfully and critically.
Active form time offers healthy variety
Jane Clarke, Head of PE, Comberton Village College, shows how students and staff throughout the school are benefiting from a weekly activity programme.
Overcoming stress at work: an eight-point plan
Carole Spiers suggests approaches to counter stress at work for teachers.
How do we improve children’s mental health and wellbeing? Get them active!
Looking towards World Mental Health day on Tuesday 10 October, Chris Wright, Head of Wellbeing, Youth Sport Trust, shows the links between physical activity and exam success.
Hello September: here we go again…
Psychologist Dr Lindsay Joyce suggests evidence-based strategies to build wellbeing recovery into your school day; helping to boost your happiness and create a more effective learning environment for students at the start of the academic year and beyond.
After the promise of summer: how to avoid feeling let down
Psychologist Dr Lindsay Joyce suggests an approach to overcome the stressors that do harm, even if they feel good
How can the school system better protect young people’s mental health?
Second in a series of three articles presenting highlights from discussions and debates hosted by SSAT relating to educational reform and policy-making.
The crucial need for a whole-school approach to mental health
Most current school initiatives are deficient, on two levels
