It’s tough for a busy teacher to juggle their work/life balance and manage to keep up their fitness levels! There’s not enough hours in day. Read More
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Top 10 Tips For Mental Health
Tips for mental health boil down to a few simple things – although achieving them all when real life gets in the way is often not so simple! Read More
Spotlight on: Adrian Bethune
Adrian advocates that there is nothing more important than your emotional wellbeing. Read More
School Staff Mental Health: 5 Ways To Reach Out
Mental health in education is high on every teachers agenda but actually actioning positive steps towards supporting our own mental health, often takes a backseat. Read More
The Issues Facing Post-Pandemic Early Years Pupils (Via TT)
There has been recognition across the world that pupils have had their wellbeing significantly impacted as a result of the pandemic. Children in Read More
The Life After Teaching Chronicles Episode 2: Chris Walsh (Tutor Right)
Here is the 2nd installment where I speak to Chris Walsh from http://www.tutorright.co.uk/ about how he left education world in order to start a tutoring business which has now expanded exponentially! Read More
Let’s Stop Calling it Teacher ‘Burnout’ (via Nexus)
I am all for self-care but so many of us don’t have the capacity for this luxury. What if we used the word ‘exploitation’ in place of burnout? What if we changed the narrative? Read More
Adult Screen Time; A Different Perspective
There is so much bad press surrounding adult screen time and how it encourages you tune out of the world around you, meaning you are less present in your life. I am a firm believer in everything in moderation and although I don’t look at my phone at the table or while I’m talking to someone, sometimes, I do just enjoy mindlessly scrolling though feeds and posts. It was a guilty pleasure of mine, until I chose to forget the ‘guilt’ element. Read More
Teacher workload; are you a self-fulfilling prophecy?
We as educationalists are also our own worst enemies in expecting to live up to our own self-fulfilling prophecies, which we have imposed on ourselves by simply aspiring to be great teachers. Many are finding that they cannot keep up with the high output that both they themselves and the profession has expected of them. Read More
SENCOs: Raising The Profile of These Unsung Heros
This post goes out to all those SENCOs who work tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure that children on the SEND register have everything they need to access their education. I see you. Read More