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Catastrophe*

Reading Time: 3 minutes *Probably not an actual catastrophe Shout out to all the overthinkers, ruminators and catastrophisers. A certain amount of forward planning is useful, and comforting. It makes me feel like I’m equipped for whatever might happen. Problem is, quite often I’m not, because events have a funny way of not playing out as I expect. Take […]

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The Wellbeing Curriculum with Andrew Cowley

Reading Time: 6 minutes I am joined today by Andrew Cowley. I last spoke to Andrew two years ago when The Wellbeing Toolkit was published and I am delighted to see a follow up in the form of The Wellbeing Curriculum. So Andrew, I asked you two years ago if writing had changed your life. Has it changed now? […]

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Senior Mental Health Lead Training from the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools

Reading Time: 3 minutes The idea of a Senior Mental Health Lead for schools was first mooted in a 2017 green paper. The stated aspiration was for every school and college to have a Designated Mental Health Lead by 2025.  That was before the pandemic, which has only intensified the need for a lead in schools with strategic oversight […]

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Book Review: The Designated Mental Health Lead Planner

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Designated Mental Health Lead Planner by Clare Erasmus published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. The Designated Mental Health Lead  (DMHL) is a fairly new role in the educational landscape. It began life in a government green paper in 2017, with a bold declaration of intent: every school and college to have a Designated Mental Health […]

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Mental Health Lead Training Providers List

Reading Time: 2 minutes   Interested in accessing funding for Senior Mental Health Lead training? Not sure where you can get training? Here’s an alphabetical list of acredited training providers. Use these tools from the Carnegie Centre of Excellence from Mental Health in Schools  to assess your learning level and find a course. The full list of accredited providers […]

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A Review of: Core Teacher Skills – Emotional Resilience How to Manage Workload and Wellbeing

Reading Time: 2 minutes Encouraging, Inspiring and Motivational As a teacher, our well-being and emotional resilience often take a pounding so to speak, we often lose track, and sight of the best ways to look after ourselves to be the best practitioners we can be. Within this training we are encouraged to stop, focus and realign our thinking on […]

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Lockdown loneliness

Reading Time: 4 minutes A guest post by Rachel Ball.  I’m writing this during a half term break which I have struggled with to be honest. Whilst grateful for the break from remote learning and home-school, it’s been hard to relax. There’s the constant speculation in the press about when and how we will return to school, the challenge […]