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.

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.

A guide to help Autistic colleagues feel supported and understood in schools. Inside there are practical and meaningful suggestions to help reduce anxiety within the workplace.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

When we take steps to meaningfully
engage children and young people in the work we do each day, we are able to adapt our practice, curriculums, approaches and settings to best meet their needs. Whilst children can’t give us all of the answers, taking time to really tune into their voices lets us hear from the expert in our students: the students themselves.