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Inclusion is vital to student wellbeing, but more can be done to support diverse students and families
Australia’s federal Student Wellbeing Framework, meant to underpin educators’ work across the country, is designed to support understandings of the strong associations between students’ sense of safety, wellbeing and learning. “Inclusion”…
Workplace Wellbeing = Corporate Social Responsibility
People may think that workplace wellbeing only concerns and benefits the people in an organisation. When staff are well and healthy at work, they are happy at work. There is…
What’s behind the rise in school absence rates?
Phil Revels blames a school system that induces anxiety, another reader says schools practise coercive control and Dr Ian Cunningham advocates self-managed learning While there are a number of reasons why school attendance…
Berkshire school boys shave heads to support friend with cancer
Thirteen school boys have had their heads shaved in solidarity with a friend who has bone cancer. Nine-year-old Harry from Reading, Berkshire, was diagnosed in July and faces 18 rounds…
How can parents and children battle back-to-school anxiety?
With schools opening their doors again on Monday, both parents and their children could be experiencing a mixture of emotions, including anxiety. Usually during the summer holidays, bedtime routines go…
Jamie Oliver calls for free school meals as poll shows Labour and Tory voters want them
Jamie Oliver has demanded free school meals are given to more children as research shows the majority of both Labour and Tory voters back this. The celebrity chef, who has long campaigned…
Private school students in England twice as likely to earn top A-level grades as state pupils
This year’s results show attainment gap is widening, despite Tory pledges to close it Pupils in private schools are more than twice as likely to achieve A or A* grades…
Help, my child doesn’t want to go back to school
Start by reinstating their usual sleep schedule and get everything ready to go the night before the big day, advises Lynn Enright Schools don’t reopen for a couple of weeks…
The Power of a Pause
Busy busy busy – we’re all so busy. Rushing, trying to keep up, at work, at home, in our social lives. Modern life is so complex and demanding. You’ve got…
As kids head back to school drivers urged to be more careful, especially in school zones
Students of Fort Worth ISD and Dallas ISD head back to school Monday, and that means a lot more cars will be on the road during rush hour. To help…
