This week, Jenny and Roxy discuss how effective wellbeing in schools can help to create happy teachers. We discuss some good and some not so good experiences we have had with wellbeing in schools. We conclude that at the heart of successful wellbeing lies planning and consideration. Wellbeing, if it is a one-off event to celebrate a particular challenge, such as an inspection, needs to be unique, not just something we could replicate ourselves with a few friends. But well being shouldn’t just be limited to one-offs; staff well-being should be built into every decision leaders make. Reducing ‘pinch points’ in the year, for example, goes a long way to helping teachers’ wellbeing.
In this week’s Break-time Banter, we hear a hilarious story from Roxy about a slap of a seal’s bottom intruding onto her lesson (yes, you read that right!) whilst this week’s Get In The Bin comes from Jenny who takes a swipe at well-being that happens before 8.30am!
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Links from the show: Education Support: the only UK charity focused on the mental health and well-being of education staff. www.educationsupport.org.uk Particularly worth viewing are the ‘Staff Wellbeing Audit Tool’ and ‘Developing a technology strategy to support staff wellbeing’, both under ‘Resources for organisations’.
Anna Freud, Mentally Healthy Schools. http://mentallyhealthyschools.org.uk Particularly worth viewing are ‘the 5 Steps framework - supporting staff’ and ‘10 steps towards staff wellbeing’, a handbook on measuring, monitoring and improving staff wellbeing.
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