How to Maximise the Impact of Your Next INSET Day
This guide, written by Pooky Knightsmith, explores simple steps we can take to maximise the impact of INSET training days and sessions.
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How to Succeed in Your First Head of Department Role
This guide aims to support you as you establish yourself in the role of head of department and perhaps a new school or college too. We focus in on the parts of the role that might be new to you as you step up into a position of leading as well as teaching.
Effective CPD on a Shoestring
Learning doesn’t cease when we stop attending school or college and start working in one, it should be a life long endeavour. Download our free pack on ‘Effective CPD on a Shoestring’ aiming to help you rethink and restrategize your CPD.
8 Ideas to Enable Staff to Flourish at Work
When we look after our staff, everybody wins. Happy staff tend to be healthier, more productive and more innovative. In this resource we’ve shared eight ideas that you can use as a springboard for thinking about how to enable your staff to flourish. Some ideas will be easier to implement than others, but each has the potential to have an impact.
Pick two or three of these ideas that resonate with you to try and lean into them for the next few weeks. Some ideas are quick wins and you might see an impact right away, other ideas might be slower burners – don’t lose faith too soon.
Staff Wellbeing: 4 Ideas for Leaders Who Care
This guide, written by Pooky Knightsmith, shares 4 simple suggestions to help you to help your team members at a time when there is high risk of physical and emotional burnout.
Growing Through Grief – Activities and Ideas
When someone significant in a child’s life dies, we find ourselves wanting to help but often don’t know how. The activities I’ve created here are to help you bridge that gap and help you to help a child. This guide has been kindly sponsored by SAPHNA, the school and public health nurses association. You can learn more about SAPHNA’s work and become a member at https://saphna.co
How to Become a Trauma Informed School
Becoming a trauma informed school is vital because we now recognise that one in three diagnosed mental health problems in adulthood are known to directly relate to childhood traumatic experiences. In this guide, expert Betsy deThierry provides practical steps for schools and colleges who wish to take a trauma informed approach.
Reasonable Adjustments for Mental Health in the Workplace
A guide to help make reasonable adjustments at work to help colleagues feel supported in schools. Inside there are practical and meaningful suggestions to help reduce anxiety within the workplace.
Raising Staff Morale: A Practical Guide for Schools
This guide provides actionable strategies to help foster a positive and supportive environment where staff feel valued, energised, and empowered. When staff feel well-supported, they are more engaged, motivated, and able to provide the best outcomes for students.
Looking After Your Own Wellbeing When Delivering Safeguarding Training
This guide, written by Pooky Knightsmith, explores simple steps we can take to safeguard our own wellbeing when we take on the responsibility of delivering safeguarding training to others.
Supporting Your Own Mental Health
As someone that works with children and young people, you give all of yourself every day to them. But you matter too.
Within this short guide, we have taken some of the best bits from our staff wellbeing courses to support you.
How Mentally Healthy is Your School? – A Simple Audit
This tool is designed to give you a brief snapshot of how mentally healthy your school is and to help you prioritise areas for development. This audit tool and the ideas in this guide are taken from ‘The Mentally Health Schools Workbook’ which was written by Dr Pooky Knightsmith, one of Creative Education’s directors.
We hope you find the ideas here helpful and we wish you the best of luck with your journey towards becoming a more mentally healthy school.