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35 free resources
Guide
Raising Staff Morale: A Practical Guide for Schools
This guide provides actionable strategies to help foster a positive and supportive environment where staff feel valued, energised, and empowered. When staff…
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Creating a Neurodiversity Charter Resource
In response to popular demand, we have created this guide to assist schools in developing their own Neurodiversity Charter, a document that…
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Supporting Your Own Mental Health
As someone that works with children and young people, you give all of yourself every day to them. But you matter too.…
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Hearing Their Voices
When we take steps to meaningfully engage children and young people in the work we do each day, we are able to…
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Reasonable Adjustments for Mental Health in the Workplace
A guide to help make reasonable adjustments at work to help colleagues feel supported in schools. Inside there are practical and meaningful…
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Supporting Autistic Staff in School
A guide to help Autistic colleagues feel supported and understood in schools. Inside there are practical and meaningful suggestions to help reduce…
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How to Maximise the Impact of Your Next INSET Day
This guide, written by Pooky Knightsmith, explores simple steps we can take to maximise the impact of INSET training days and sessions.
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Staff Wellbeing: 4 Ideas for Leaders Who Care
This guide, written by Pooky Knightsmith, shares 4 simple suggestions to help you to help your team members at a time when…
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8 Ideas to Enable Staff to Flourish at Work
When we look after our staff, everybody wins. Happy staff tend to be healthier, more productive and more innovative. In this resource…
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Growing Through Grief – Activities and Ideas
Growing Through Grief – Activities and Ideas When someone significant in a child’s life dies, we find ourselves wanting to help but…
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Effective CPD on a Shoestring
Learning doesn’t cease when we stop attending school or college and start working in one, it should be a life long endeavour.…
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Looking After Your Own Wellbeing When Delivering Safeguarding Training
This guide, written by Pooky Knightsmith, explores simple steps we can take to safeguard our own wellbeing when we take on the…
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How Mentally Healthy is Your School? – A Simple Audit
This tool is designed to give you a brief snapshot of how mentally healthy your school is and to help you prioritise…
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How to Become a Trauma Informed School
Becoming a trauma informed school is vital because we now recognise that one in three diagnosed mental health problems in adulthood are…
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How to Succeed in Your First Head of Department Role
This guide aims to support you as you establish yourself in the role of head of department and perhaps a new school…
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8 Ideas to Get Boys Reading
Whether you’re looking to boost boys’ reading for pleasure or your aims are more closely aligned with raising attainment, this resource provides…
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Slides
An introduction to data protection (UK GDPR) for school staff: slides
A 15-slide presentation with full speaker notes. It covers what counts as personal data, the seven principles, special category data, the lawful…
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Art techniques for learners with PMLD and sensory needs: webinar notes
Notes from Sonya Mould's webinar on making art accessible to learners with profound and multiple learning disabilities. It links artists to class…
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Creative mindful activities for learners with PMLD: webinar notes
Notes from Sonya Mould's webinar for our February 2023 deep dive conference. It gives ten calm, sensory activities, including messy play, sensory…
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Securing your first senior leadership role: resource packs
Three packs from our course for aspiring senior leaders. Pack 1 covers the move from management to leadership, keeping a professional distance…
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Implementing positive behaviour management in the classroom: workbook
A 38-page course workbook in five sections: communication, baselines (including rewards and sanctions), breadth and diversity in lessons, creating a positive classroom,…
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20 ways to promote a healthy eating culture in school
Twenty short, practical ideas for staff and pupils, from modelling healthy lunches and a school garden to recipe swaps, water stations and…
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A practical guide to embedding school values
A three-page table of strategies for making school values part of daily life. Each strategy comes with a practical application and an…
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Student transition passport, Year 6 to 7
A printable passport for pupils to fill in before they start secondary school. It asks about their strengths, what helps them learn,…
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