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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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.
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.
Creating a Neurodiversity Charter Resource
In response to popular demand, we have created this guide to assist schools in developing their own Neurodiversity Charter, a document that signifies their commitment to celebrating and supporting all forms of neurodivergence. This guide includes a downloadable template and suggestions for implementation.
Anxiety & School Return – 10 Ideas
As we prepare for the return to school, there are many anxieties from students, staff and families about what happens next and how we can enable our whole school communities to thrive. I’ve shared ten ideas here to help you on your way. I hope these ideas are helpful. Thank you for all you are doing.
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.
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.
8 Ideas to Get Boys Reading
Whether you’re looking to boost boys’ reading for pleasure or your aims are more closely aligned with raising attainment, this resource provides you with a range of ideas to encourage boys to engage with reading more readily and more sustainably.
Promoting Pupil Wellbeing when School is Online
This guide, written by Pooky Knightsmith, explores simple steps we can take to promote pupil wellbeing when learning is happening remotely.
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.
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
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.