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Teachers, don’t miss BBC Live Romans Lesson on Monday 27 November, 11am! Grab your class and attempt to solve a mystery 2000 years in the making in this History Live Lesson for 7-11 year olds. https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/live-lessons/the-romans-history-live-lesson-monday-27-november-2023-1100/zvcy46f https://x.com/BBC_Teach/status/1719798713466667029?s=20
Primary School Teachers Are you concerned about pupil wellbeing in your school? Check out this FREE ‘how to tackle pupil anxiety’ guide, which includes expert advice and tips to improve pupil wellbeing. https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/student-anxiety-guide?utm_source=Twitter+Ad&utm_medium=2+-+PT+carousel&utm_campaign=A+Guide+to+Tackling+Student+Anxiety&utm_id=A+Guide+to+Tackling+Student+Anxiety&twclid=2-qy4awmtwha4kjiysre2xs0p4
Resources for starting Primary and Secondary School https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zssjtcw https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zqy7p9q
Anna Freud have put together some wonderful free resources: This #SelfCareSummer plan walks primary and secondary aged children through steps to help them create a simple self-care plan that works for them and to identify activities that they can use to support their mental health over the summer holidays and beyond. https://crowd.in/ALQUyv
Toolkits of resources for primary and secondary/FE settings, full of World Mental Health Day activities for whole classes, small groups or individual pupils. https://mentallyhealthyschools.org.uk/resources/world-mental-health-day-2022-toolkit/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wmhd
NB: https://uktraumacouncil.org/ https://uktraumacouncil.link/documents/ChildhoodTraumathBrainSocialWorldv1.0.pdf
Delivered by Dave Whitaker Free to attend for Derby City Schools. Thursday 30th June 2022 Pride Park Stadium Use the link to book your place; https://emotionallyhealthyschools.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/The-Kindness-Principle-Conference-For-Derby-City-Schools-1.pdf
https://www.ncb.org.uk/buildbackchildhood A really interesting read: Before the pandemic, a child’s health, wellbeing and life chances were powerfully shaped by the circumstances of their birth. The pandemic has painfully exposed these inequalities, with disadvantaged children falling even further behind their peers in education, and those who were already vulnerable being put at even greater risk.Image The […]
The Big Book of Blobs, written by Pip Wilson and Ian Long, is a useful (and highly photocopiable(!)) tool for helping Primary and Secondary school children to explore their feelings. Blob characters are depicted in many different situations which can be used as a springboard for meaningful discussion on a range of issues and topics. […]
The Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS) is a 47-item, youth self-report questionnaire with subscales including: separation anxiety disorder, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and low mood (major depressive disorder). It also yields a Total Anxiety Scale (sum of the 5 anxiety subscales) and a Total Internalizing Scale (sum […]