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How schools are using innovative ways to support student wellbeing

Posted by: Gill Bell and Nichola Potts, Posted on: 16 May 2025 - Categories: Pupil wellbeing and behaviour, School attendance
Christ the King RC Primary School

School staff share their approaches to student wellbeing

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Keeping pupils active to support their wellbeing

Posted by: Andrew Aalders-Dunthorne, Posted on: 10 May 2024 - Categories: Curriculum best practice, PE and Sport Premium, Primary schools, Pupil wellbeing and behaviour, Secondary schools

CEO of The Consortium Trust, Andrew Aalders-Dunthorne shares insight about the Trust’s active and outdoor based curriculum.

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Inspiring and enabling pupil and learner voice

Posted by: Sue Matthews, Lynn Whitehead-Lewis and Emma Scelsi, Posted on: 5 February 2024 - Categories: Pupil wellbeing and behaviour

This week is Children’s Mental Health Week and the theme this year is ‘My Voice Matters’. Three mental health leads share how their schools are enabling pupil voice within their wider whole school and college approach to mental health and wellbeing.

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Supporting mental health and wellbeing at our school

Posted by: Emma Scelsi, Posted on: 10 October 2023 - Categories: Pupil wellbeing and behaviour, Teacher mental health, Teacher wellbeing

As the senior mental health lead at St Vincent’s Primary School in London, Emma Scelsi tells us about her schools’ approach to supporting pupils with their mental health and wellbeing.

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Empowering primary school children to take a proactive approach to wellbeing

Posted by: Claire Lee, Posted on: 9 February 2023 - Categories: Pupil wellbeing and behaviour, Teacher wellbeing
Burley Oaks

Claire Lee, head teacher at Burley Oaks Primary School in West Yorkshire shares how her school is supporting pupil wellbeing at an earlier age to help them as they grow up.

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