Healthy wellbeing is formative wellbeing: What does success look like?
I am often asked to support schools with their school plans or to evaluate projects or initiatives that they are running. One of the first places we start is asking “What are you are trying to achieve with this plan or this project? What does success look like?” When it comes to reading and numeracy, this […]
Screen time, emotions and readiness to learn – a message for parents & carers
This week’s blog is for your parents, carers, and broader community. It will come as no surprise that the evidence suggests that excessive screen time has a negative impact on emotions and readiness to learn. Therefore, it is a good idea to reduce excessive screen time. How much screen time is excessive? A good place […]
Hitting the target but missing the point – measuring wellbeing in schools
Measuring wellbeing is tricky. As with anything we want to measure the first thing we need to be clear on is what do we mean when we say ‘wellbeing’. The World Health Organisation defines wellbeing as “a positive state experienced by individuals and societies. Similar to health, it is a resource for daily life and […]
7 tips for successful whole school wellbeing programs
Choose the response that best describes your whole school wellbeing program/s: If you answered “A” or “E”, this blog is not for you. If you answered anything else, read on for a summary of the things that are working in schools with successful wellbeing programs. While every school is different, we also have a lot […]
Happiness doesn’t have a postcode: What can teacher awareness do?
Most of us are familiar with the postcode lottery. This is the idea that depending on what postcode you are born into dictates the opportunities you have. This is more than an idea, there are plenty of statistics that support it: cue the graph of affluent schools with above average academic performance vs schools in […]