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Starting the Year Already Depleted: Why September INSET Should Build Staff Capacity, Not Just Deliver Information
An INSET day built around policy updates and information delivery might tick a compliance box, but it does very little for a staffroom that is already running on reserves before the pupils have even arrived. If your September INSET day is currently built around information, it may be worth asking what it would look like built around capacity instead.
Coping With Exam Results: What Comes After Any Big Outcome
A result is a single number, produced by one performance, on one day, after months or years of preparation that number alone can never fully capture.
Our latest blog piece looks at what genuinely helps in the weeks after results day, whatever the outcome, and draws on academic research showing that one-off, high-pressure exams have real limitations as a measure of ability, and can suit some learners considerably better than others.
Results Day, Whatever the Exam: Supporting Your Child on GCSE Results Day and Beyond
Somewhere this morning, a phone is buzzing on a bedside table before anyone's dressed. Somewhere else, a family is deciding, without quite discussing it, who opens the laptop and who leaves the room.
GCSE results day is one morning, but it never really belongs to one story. Some houses are celebrating. Some are quietly heartbroken. Some are just confused about how to feel. All on the same day, for the same exam.
I've written this week's piece on what actually helps across al
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Mindfulness for Arthritis: Cultivating Inner Peace in Your Professional Life
In the intricate tapestry of our professional lives, managing the challenges of arthritis can feel like a delicate balancing act. Amidst...
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3 Proactive Strategies for Stress Management and Resilience Building to Improve Your Wellbeing
How we handle pressure & stress is down to our resilience. Here are three proactive things you can start today that increase resilience.
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Preventing Burnout; How Organisations Can Help Employees
Introduction The workplace can be tough. Between work-life balance, long hours, and demanding managers, it's no wonder why employees...
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Feeling Annoyed? Here Are 4 Simple Ways To Let It Go
AKA How to practice the art of 'Not Holding On To Something That Is Annoying You' Be honest, you are currently humming along to Frozen's...
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6 Practical Ways To Reduce Stress In The Moment
When it comes to reducing stress, there's loads of advice out there. From improving your sleep quality, doing yoga, practising meditation...
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Resilient Mindset: Stop Negative Self-talk To Reduce Stress
Is Positive Self-talk The Key To Stress Management? When it comes to stress, one of the biggest contributors is the internal conversation...
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6 Self-care Tips For People With Stressful Jobs
Work-related stress, depression or anxiety is defined as a harmful reaction people have to undue pressures and demands placed on them at...
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How Reconnecting With Nature Improves Wellbeing And Brings Perspective
I have written recently about seven amazing benefits (including improved wellbeing and productivity) of adding green plants to your...
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7 Benefits of Having Real Plants in Your Office Workspace or Classroom
One thing that is often overlooked by organisations looking to improve employee wellbeing, drive productivity or increase engagement is...
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Parenting in a Pandemic: The Impact on Parents’ Mental Wellbeing (Part 2)
This post forms part two of the article discussing how parents' mental health has been impacted by the pandemic. If you haven't read part...
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10 Wellbeing Products To Help You Unwind And Find Inner Peace
Wellbeing is...well, it's complicated. In scientific terms, it can be defined as 'the combination of feeling good and functioning well;...
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5 Tips To Stop Feeling Stuck And Find Your Purpose In Life
Contents 0 - How Satisfied Are You At Work? 1 - Identify Your Personal Core Values (And Live By Them!) 2 - Explore Your Character...
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Thank God It's Monday!
A Strategy To Improve Wellbeing At Work Work forms a significant part of most peoples lives. In fact, between Monday and Friday, we spend...
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HOW TO SET AND MAINTAIN BOUNDARIES
One issue that comes up time after time with clients is how to set and maintain personal boundaries. Quite often it comes up when clients...
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The Science of Happiness: Why We Should Put More Effort Into Our Relationships
If there's one thing that's been under strain since the start of the pandemic, it's our relationships. Spending hours together in a...
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Decluttering Your Mind, Body & Spirit
Transform Your Mind, Transform Your Life! You know that pile of clothes hanging on the treadmill you don't use? And the pile of papers...
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Is Work Life Balance Achievable?
Work-life balance. A phrase we hear all too often, and in my opinion it sends completely the wrong message. It implies that some kind of...
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Feeling Sad or Feeling Seasonal Affective Disorder?
With everything that’s going on in the world, you might find yourself feeling a bit low at the moment. This is completely understandable,...
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21 Best Books on Positivity for 2021
On a cold, wintry day, what’s better than curling up under a blanket with a good book? In my mind it’s what the word hygge was created...
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5 Ways You Can Improve Your Wellbeing At Work
In an ideal world, wellbeing at work would start with the employer. Why should employers care about wellbeing? Well, research tells us...
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