Well Schools Library

Series 1

• Holy Family Catholic Primary School in Surrey - LISTEN
• John Spence Community High School in North Shields - LISTEN
• Well Schools Live Discussion - LISTEN
• Kings Leadership Academy Hawthornes in Liverpool - LISTEN
• Oasis Academy Blakenhale Infants and Junior School in Birmingham - LISTEN
• The Bourne Academy in Bournemouth - LISTEN
• Theale Green School in Berkshire - LISTEN

Series 2

• Rebecca Leek, South Essex Alliance Multi-Academy Trust - LISTEN
• Jeremy Hannay, Three Bridges Primary School in West London - LISTEN
• Farhan Adam, Crown Hills Community College in Leicester - LISTEN
• Jaime Thurston, 52 Lives Charity - LISTEN
• Live Panel Discussion - LISTEN

Series 3

• Ben Levinson, Kensington Primary School in East London - LISTEN
• Warren King - LISTEN
• Rachael Mackenzie - LISTEN
• Build Belonging to Teach Happy - LISTEN
• The Power of Active Learning - LISTEN
• Happiest School in the UK - LISTEN
• Out for Summer! - LISTEN

Series 4

• Bite Back 2030 - LISTEN
• Sleep is a Super Power - LISTEN
• Loving Classrooms - LISTEN
• Half-Term Report - LISTEN
• Building belonging in alternative provision - LISTEN
• Imagination is a Super Power - LISTEN
• Well Schools Review '22 - LISTEN

Series 5

• Building Happiness Factories - LISTEN
• Schools Built on Love - LISTEN
• Ben Levinson, Kensington Primary School in East London - LISTEN
• Making a Well Academy Trust - LISTEN
• Building Skills for the Future - LISTEN
• Power of movement and nature - LISTEN
• Rachael Mackenzie - LISTEN
• Building Belonging at Manchester Communication Academy - LISTEN
• Power of Inclusive Movement - LISTEN
• Build Belonging to Teach Happy - LISTEN
• School Sport Report 2023 - LISTEN

• ADHD and learning challenges – how can we help children and young people not getting their medication (Special Needs Jungle) - VIEW
• Children’s Sleep eBook (The Sleep Charity) - VIEW
• Engaging parents critical to closing the learning gap (From the Sidelines) - VIEW
• Ethical Leadership Framework (ASCL) - VIEW
• How to open school facilities for community use (Sport England) - VIEW
• Improving friendships (Children's Society) - VIEW
• LGBTQ+ inclusion (Stonewall) - VIEW
• Learning Outside the Classroom (LOTC) - VIEW
• Mental health support for schools and teachers (Young Minds) - VIEW
• New Physical Literacy Consensus Statement for UK (Sport England) - VIEW
• SSAT Children’s Charter (SSAT) - VIEW
• School Food Plan (School Food Plan) - VIEW

• Sleep and Learning (Sleep Foundation) - VIEW
• Sleep Improvement Toolkit (The Sleep Charity) - VIEW
• Staff Mental Health Support (Anna Freud) - VIEW
• Staff Wellbeing Charter (Gov.UK) - VIEW
• Substance misuse and addiction in vulnerable children (Rehab Recovery) - VIEW
• Supporting positive action for individual wellbeing (Education Support) - VIEW
• Teacher Hub (Teachers Hub) - VIEW
• The School Food toolkit (Chefs in Schools) - VIEW
• Wellbeing Governors (NGA) - VIEW
• Wellbeing for Educators (Bupa Foundation) - VIEW
• Whole School Approach to Mental Health (Gov.UK) - VIEW
• Young Minds Wellbeing Advent Calendars (Young Minds) - VIEW
• Youth Social Action (Careers and Enterprise) - VIEW

Blogs

• Building staying positive in learners (Skills Builder) - VIEW
• Children and young people’s subjective wellbeing: how to measure it more consistently (What Works Wellbeing) - VIEW
• How do essential skills shape young people’s life outcomes? (Schools Week) - VIEW
• Is it possible to embed wellbeing in schools? (What Works Wellbeing) - VIEW
• Prioritising your wellbeing – what it means and why we could all be doing it (Teach Happy) - VIEW
• Social fitness is the biggest predictor of a happy life. Here’s how to improve yours (Science Focus) - VIEW
• Stop Hovering and Let Kids Play (The Growth Equation) - VIEW
• Stop smartphones stealing kids’ childhoods (The Times) - VIEW
• The Screen Time Diet: helping children find digital balance (My Tutor) - VIEW
• Using wellbeing programmes to boost engagement in PE (Future Action) - VIEW
• Well Schools - What is the Place of Wellbeing in Education? (Confederation of School Trusts) - VIEW
• Wellbeing in education and the art of making happy pupils (Herald Scotland) - VIEW

Reports

• Adolescent Mental Health and Educational Outcomes in Early Adulthood (What Works Wellbeing) - VIEW
• Do school trips provide educational benefit? (My College) - VIEW
• Educational outcomes of young people referred to social care in England (Action for Children) - VIEW
• Improving staff wellbeing in schools and colleges (What Works Wellbeing) - VIEW

• Loneliness and wellbeing in young people (What Works Wellbeing) - VIEW
• NHS report on mental health (NHS) - VIEW
• No music, no ball games, no fun: society is wiping out play (Independent) - VIEW
• Pupil attendance in a post-covid world (Guardian) - VIEW
• Revenge of the nerds is a fantasy, it’s the jocks who have more successful careers (Guardian) - VIEW
• Sport, dance and young people (What Works Wellbeing) - VIEW
• Sport, dance and young people's wellbeing: what works? - (What Works Wellbeing) - VIEW
• State of Child Poverty Report (Buttle UK) - VIEW
• Study: children’s inactivity remains an issue in wake of pandemic (University of Bristol) - VIEW
• Supporting student mental health and wellbeing (What Works Wellbeing) - VIEW
• Teacher wellbeing index (Education Support) - VIEW
• The Good Childhood Report 2022 (Children's Society) - VIEW
• The Next Generation: Lost Potential at Age 16 (Sutton Trust) - VIEW
• The Pearson School Report 2023 (Pearson) - VIEW
• The biggest issue affecting children in Wales: tackling child poverty (Senedd Research) - VIEW
• The expanding responsibilities of teachers in modern education (Education Support) - VIEW
• The truth about teens, social media and the mental health crisis (NPR) - VIEW
• Three Exercises That May Help Kids Perform Better In School (Yahoo) - VIEW
• What’s behind PE’s remarkable rise in Scotland? (Tes) - VIEW

• Creativity in education - Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity.
• Fight or Flight – Understanding childhood trauma - This video by Braive explains how fight or flight responses work, what it does to our body and mind, and how to deal with it.
• Free the kids - Persil UK's video looks inside the minds of prison inmates to find out exactly how much their outdoor time means to them, as part of their ‘Free the Kids’ campaign, an initiative to get kids spending more time outside.
• How every human can thrive by five - Molly Wright (aged 7) highlights the benefits of play on lifelong learning, behaviour and well-being, sharing effective strategies to help all kids thrive by the age of five.
• Ken Robinson, A future for us all - A new animation, based on what proved to be Sir Ken Robinson's last public talk, ‘My Thoughts for The Call to Unite’.
• Movement is Life - Are your pupils physical and emotionally healthy? Does this have an impact on their attainment and achievement? To find solutions and practical strategies join us at our new national CPD seminar.
• Nike 5 extra years - Today's kids are the first generation with a shorter life expectancy than their parents. What would you do with five more years?
• No such thing as soft skills - Skills like effective confrontation, empathy, and patience are not soft skills. Organisations often overlook their best internal leaders because they don't place enough place enough value on these crucial interpersonal qualities, and as a result, company leadership suffers.
• Pedagogy in practice: Addiction and Substance Use - The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health have released a series of learning videos with The Chartered College of Teaching. This video focuses on addiction and substance use.
• Pedagogy in practice: Anxiety - The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health have released a series of learning videos with The Chartered College of Teaching. This video focuses on anxiety.
• Pedagogy in practice: Bereavement - The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health have released a series of learning videos with The Chartered College of Teaching. This video focuses on bereavement.
• Pedagogy in practice: Bullying and Loneliness - The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health have released a series of learning videos with The Chartered College of Teaching. This video focuses on bullying and loneliness.
• Pedagogy in practice: Eating Disorders - The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health have released a series of learning videos with The Chartered College of Teaching. This video focuses on eating disorders.

• Pedagogy in practice: Self Harm - The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health have released a series of learning videos with The Chartered College of Teaching. This video focuses on self harm.
• Pedagogy in practice: Sleep and Screen Time - The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health have released a series of learning videos with The Chartered College of Teaching. This video focuses on sleep and screen time.
• Pedagogy in practice: Social Media and Online Usage - The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health have released a series of learning videos with The Chartered College of Teaching. This video focuses on social media and online usage.
• Pedagogy in practice: Trauma - The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health have released a series of learning videos with The Chartered College of Teaching. This video focuses on trauma.
• Pedagogy in practice: Whole School Approach to Mental Health - The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health have released a series of learning videos with The Chartered College of Teaching. This video focuses on whole school approach to mental health.
• Positive effects pupil voice on mental health and wellbeing - Staff from St. Michael’s CofE High School in the West Midlands discuss how their school includes pupil voice at the heart of their whole-school approach and share some practical tips to do this successfully.
• Rise of the kids/Sport is never done - Nike's video demonstrates the endless opportunities for young people to discover what they are really capable of.
• Sport is never done - It's self-expression. Confidence. An endless opportunity for a kid to discover what they're really capable of. A great resource for assemblies.
• The Lundy Model: Enabling Meaningful Participation of Young People - Professor Laura Lundry, from Queen's University Belfast, outlines the four components based on research of the Lundry Model which is designed to get children and young people participating in physical activity.
• The adolescent brain - Dan Siegel outlines the science behind the working of the brain during adolescent years.
• The importance of life skills and citizenship in education - Watch UNICEFmena's video on how the life skills and citizenship education initiative puts the acquisition of life skills at the core of learning to open doors to future opportunities.
• The shocking effects of junk food advertising - Using the same techniques as the food advertisement industry, Bite Back 2030 held a social experiment to predict what meals eight teenagers would order at a restaurant.
• What do kids really think about sleep - The latest video from The Sleep Charity - empowering the nation to sleep better through evidence-based support, training and working in partnership.