Category: blog
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Resilience is more important than ever, so how do busy teachers help students build it?
Why teaching resilience is important and why it doesn’t need to take teachers a lot of extra time to teach. Instead, it’s about a holistic wellbeing culture at school. In a time when we’ve swapped classrooms for computers and high-fives for hand sanitiser, questions are building about the resilience of our young people. Do they…
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Why wellbeing shouldn’t be a spectator sport. Teaching wellbeing in a meaningful and playful way.
A look at why schools should take a holistic approach to wellbeing. One that also includes teachers! In recent decades, schools have become more and more focused on student wellbeing. They understand that in order to learn, students must have a strong social and emotional foundation. In fact, the link between student wellbeing and academic…
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How to carve out time for wellbeing without sacrificing anything else
Why wellbeing is so important and what resources exist to help build a wellbeing culture Student wellbeing has always been a concern for many teachers, but the events of the past two years have pushed wellbeing to the top of the priority list. Although we don’t expect to see the same level of disruptions to…
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Mental health matters: the role wellbeing plays in the classroom.
How student wellbeing affects behaviours, performance and outcomes in the classroom. Childhoods today are filled with milestones. There’s the physical ones like crawling and walking. The communication ones like talking and waving. And there’s the ones focused around big life events, like starting kindergarten and school. From the moment a new baby is born their…
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Allies of change
by Kristina Freeman December 16, 2021 Reflections of another rather interesting year We release our 2021 Impact report I am one of the co-founders, Kristina, I am the director of social enterprises and I have been asked to write a blog on reflections from this year. Full disclosure: I would rather poke my eyeball than to do…
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The key to student wellbeing is…
by Alice Peel November 23, 2020 LOVE? NO! (although we are fans of the stuff) MONEY NO! (also fans) STAFF WELLBEING? YES! You can stop reading now. Still here? Need more convincing? Here…
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Everyone has mental health. Here’s how to help students take care of it.
5 ways to encourage positive mental health habits and practices with students. It can be very difficult for young people to navigate their way through the world. They need to learn how to deal with big feelings and new emotions, all while trying to make friends, experience new learning environments and manage their self image…
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A cultural shift in how we think about mental health
by Alice Peel October 14, 2021 Let us begin by saying: BRING IT ON! BRING ON the National Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy, an initiative of the Australian Government’s National Mental Health Commission. BRING ON the fact that this is the first time a national government has developed a strategy that considers mental health and wellbeing…
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Does mental health + wellbeing education need its own swimming lane?
by Alice Peel October 1, 2021 Mental health and wellbeing tends to be tucked tidily into the PDHPE curriculum. This to date has highlighted to all that it is a requirement of Australian schools to teach mental wellbeing. However, as I sat and listened to Christine Morgan (the CEO of the National Mental Health Commission and National…
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A ticking emotional time bomb: being a school principal in 2021
by Alice Peel July 5, 2021 we meet serving the wide variety of schools that Grow Your Mind is in. Even if you are not a leader the reasons why this particular role may be stressful are glaringly obvious: Students! Parents! Staff! COVID-19! The ACU’s 2020 Principal’s Health and Wellbeing report found that our school leaders are not only overwhelmed by the…
