How schools are using innovative ways to support student wellbeing
How schools are using innovative ways to support student wellbeing
School staff share their approaches to student wellbeing
Building confidence through dance: the Teacher Effect
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Lizzie Bulley, Posted on:
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Inspiring teachers, Primary schools, Teacher Effect
Teachers can make a real difference to pupils lives, inspiring beyond the classroom. Lizzie’s faith in one of her pupil’s ability to dance gave him a new-found confidence in his life at school and home. See how Lizzie's Teacher Effect story unfolds.
Discovering poetry through nature: the Teacher Effect
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Riley Stemp, Posted on:
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Inspiring teachers, Primary schools, Teacher Effect
Riley, moved by the work of poet Robert Macfarlane, took her Y6 writing class outside to create poems about nature. The children created such beautiful poems, they touched the heart of the very poet who inspired them. See Riley's story unfold.
Two heads are better than one
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Alison Fitch and Rebecca Stacey, Posted on:
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Flexible working, School leadership, Teacher wellbeing
Alison Fitch and Rebecca Stacey are co-headteachers at Boxgrove Primary School in Surrey. Following the launch of the DfE’s teacher recruitment and retention strategy, which outlined steps to promote flexible working in schools, Alison and Rebbeca explain how they make job-sharing work for them.
Taking on a new challenge - making the move from PE to maths
Teacher subject specialism training (TSST) is a free programme, available to non-specialist teachers interested in expanding their knowledge and skillset to teach maths, physics or modern foreign languages. It can help increase confidence, subject knowledge and pedagogy. Tom Collishaw, a …
Girls in Physics – nurturing STEM ambitions for girls through female role models
Emma Russo shares how to boost girls' confidence and provide reassurance so that they can pursue their ambitions through the Girls in Physics programme.
Establishing an education that goes beyond the classroom
As part of our enrichment series which looks at the work happening in schools to support the development of a child’s character and resilience, Libby Nicholas, CEO of Astrea Academy Trust, shares their approach and why she believes education that goes beyond the classroom helps every pupil to fly.
Improving Pupil Premium attainment means following the evidence and focusing on classroom teaching
Daniel Jones, Assistant Head teacher at Springfield Junior School, Ipswich, explains why their Pupil Premium approach focuses on classroom teaching Springfield Junior School is part of the Research School network. A third of our pupils at Springfield attract pupil premium. …
Anti-bullying: the cornerstone of our school - Part 3
Discover how St Mary and St Thomas' CE Primary School has used the Anti-Bullying Alliance All Together programme to not just refresh their current practice but also engage with parents; educating them in identifying the signs of bullying and helping to prevent bullying behaviours at home as well.
Anti-bullying: the cornerstone of our school - Part 2
Learn how the All Together programme has helped St Mary and St Thomas' CE Primary School to share resources across the school alliance, supporting each other whilst monitoring progress to ensure they continually move forward with stamping out bullying.
Anti-bullying: the cornerstone of our school - Part 1
St Mary and St Thomas’ CE Primary School has just received Gold status for the Anti-Bullying Alliance All Together programme. Here Linda Smith, Director of Wellbeing, shares tips on tackling bullying and how she’s been able to put pupil wellbeing at the heart of the school ethos.