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The article discusses the importance of school nurses in tackling the rise in health and wellbeing of students and staffs. Topics including shortage of school nurse provision is a national problem; interventions by school nurses resulted in a variety of positive outcomes for young people; and reach of the school nurses goes beyond students the role of the school nurse has been invaluable in offering support to staff.

The article discusses a research revealing how Christmas can brings children and teachers closer together, breaks down barriers in parental engagement, builds community links and improves pupils' learning. Topics discussed include ways in which Christmas provides a unique opportunity for engagement between that school and its community; and ways in which repetition of Christmas rituals helps to boost children's learning processes.

The article offers information on the psychosocial learning which is designed to help learners feel more comfortable in the classroom and where author discovers how the approach can boost student engagement, wellbeing and results. It discusses that the advantage of this approach in these settings is that for some learners such as vulnerable students, people with mental health issues and those with special educational needs and disabilities.

The article informs that psychologist Howard Steele has warned schools that are increasingly turning to attachment theory to support vulnerable pupils, of getting lost in academic research. Topics discussed include need of teachers to focus on studies specifically relating to the school environment; views of British psychologist John Bowlby, on the issue; and different types of styles of attachment that a student can develop like secure, ambivalent, and disorganized.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of developing practical criticism classes for sixth-formers at her old school to assuage their fears about applying to elite institutions.

The article discusses the importance of digital knowledge issued to the student by digital ambassadors. Topics include provides instruction regarding digital skills workshops, and implement edtech in learning, teaching and assessment; exhibit several opportunities in the digital sector by connecting with industry, charities and universities to show their innovative works; and ways to assist the students' to recognize their capabilities and qualities.

The article discusses how the number of students being taught in a room at one time can profoundly affect their educational outcomes. Topics discussed include relationship between pupil-to staff ratios and educational outcomes; Tennessee legislature plans to know whether or not they should allocate more money to reduce class sizes; and ways in which class size reductions can improve schooling outcomes.

The article investigates how anxiety spreads through classrooms, affecting pupils' well-being, results and behavior indicating a new research that reveals that teachers are experiencing an epidemic of work-related stress. Topics include mental health behavior of teachers, educational accountability, and impacts on student achievement due to teacher' poor mental health. Also discussed is the impact on teacher mental health on the classroom environment.

The article reports on scrutiny of wellbeing programs in Great Britain, which aim to help students feel happier and less anxious, by health and education experts. Topics include wellbeing classes aimed at mitigating stress associated with testing; the opinion of Professor Kathryn Ecclestone that some coping skills offered to students may add to their stress; and comments from child mental health expert Pooky Knightsmith on the difference between stress and mental illness.

The article presents information on grief counseling in Great Britain's schools, as of March 2007. The author notes that school shootings and student stabbings are not the only reasons students require counseling, but they both call attention to the tragedies that students face daily and remind people of the importance of counseling. Psychologist Mike O'Connor says that most students will recover without counseling but notes its importance to the 25 percent who require it.

The article focuses on creative writing workshops conducted by the author for secondary students to improve their self-esteem. She applied some serious creativity into proceedings. She cites a research by Daisy Fancourt, who explored how creative activities helped manage one's mood and wellbeing. The author established a series of creative writing groups that would start an activity and in which all tasks were inclusive.

The article presents an interview with Steve Bailey, the head of consultancy at not-for-profit technology company Jisc, on the impact of coronavirus pandemic on colleges in Great Britain. When asked about what the colleges need to be doing now, he mentioned that they need to be practical and prepare for online tutorials. Other topics discussed include ways to protect the wellbeing of students and staff and managing cybersecurity threat.

The article offers information on few messages that a teacher must avoid passing to students. These messages includes "Work hard and you will achieve;" "If you can dream it, you can do it;" "The purpose of education is to get a job;" and "Everyone needs literacy and numeracy." It further elaborates how such messages can be more harmful than a teacher can realize.

The article argues how children in the education system are victims as well as perpetrators in Great Britain. Topics discussed include role of skills-based programs in helping them to develop in areas such as problem solving, emotion regulation and conflict resolution; importance of designated teacher for looked-after and previously looked-after children; and range of perspectives that require a collaborative approach.

The article offers few psychology tips for improving student behavior. Topics include portrayal of the qualities and behaviors to be implemented in children; concern regarding psychological challenges faced by students such as thoughts and emotional state which influence their behavior; and to provide routine and structure as their basic needs for security and safety.

The article focuses on comprehension of student behavior psychology by teachers. Topics include portrayal of the qualities and behaviors to be implemented in children; concern regarding psychological challenges faced by students such as thoughts and emotional state which influence their behavior; and ways to provide routine and structure as their basic needs for security and safety.

The article focuses on an upcoming project by Alison Child, discussed at the Salvation Army Bridge Project in Blackpool, England; which shows different techniques to improve health and welfare of the students.

The article discusses that new A levels could be putting students' wellbeing at risk have been heightened by new research and showing that most teachers believe that the reformed exams have led to a decline in mental health. It mentions the reformed A levels, introduced from 2017, reduced the amount of coursework in all subjects to no more than 20 percent of the overall grade; and also mentions that students are being put through an education system that is damaging to their mental health.

The article describes a bicycling course in Scotland, the aim of which is to keep students active, provide excitement, and teach students the skills required by off-road riding. Robert Dinneen, a youth development officer in Invergordon, created the program in response to the social effects of a depressed economy. He teaches bicycle maintenance, mountain biking and fitness, and he builds relationships with participants and cooperates with area schools to ensure student well being.

The article offers some wellbeing tips to help schools get through the long haul including a fortnightly short questionnaire can allow pastoral teams to take the wellbeing pulse of the community, and to identify individuals who are struggling; the routine of the school timetable may provide an efficient structure for teachers and students when schools are open; and schools can do their part to bring the school community together by hosting online events.

The article presents the author's positive experience when she was appointed writer-in-residence at All Saints Secondary School in Glasgow, Scotland where she was asked to create activities for students focusing on improving their wellbeing.

Statistics are presented on the topics including proportion of school leaders who agree that pupils referred to child and adolescent mental health services; and proportion of schools in England that provided school-based support for students' emotional and mental wellbeing.

The article informs about the efforts of foundations for a healthy lifestyle in the classroom with regular exercise engenders physical and mental resilience that can boost self-esteem and improve mental health of children; people find real pleasure in sport and physical activity; and promote the benefits of a healthy diet at school and power to positively impact pupils' wellbeing.

The article lists recommended sources of free, high-quality information about mental health in children, school staff, and teachers like website of Education Endowment Foundation, and of Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

An editorial is presented on the concept of vital characteristic to develop in students with positive psychology. Topics include various components of zest such as enthusiasm, curiosity and excitement which enhances the life; controls on classroom that are improved by adopting features of zest; and ways in which zest helps to remove students' pressure of tests and exams.

The article offers suggestions for dealing with the fear regarding safeguarding and child protection in schools in Great Britain. Topics discussed include the benefits of constant communication among school staff for pupil wellbeing, the need for the teachers to observe students, and the close relationships between tutors and students. Also mentioned is the stigma surrounding safeguarding.

The article offers Great Britain education news briefs. Topics discussed include tips for child-initiated learning in Early Years Foundation Stage, students having second-worst mental well-being, the statement of Lord Jim Knight, former school minister, on opposing harsh behavior sanctions, and teacher-made tools making parents familiar with classroom methods.

The article discusses the concerns surrounding Great Britain's Standard Assessment Tasks (Sats), the tests meant for evaluating a school's performance. It talks about the pressure on children to perform well, the National Education Union conference members' vote for a ballot to boycott the tests, and the government's proposition to remove Sats as a cause for intervention. It states that Sats are formal tests as it involves complex procedures and rules for the students and the administration.

The article presents ways in which teachers in Great Britain can reduce students' anxiety for the Year 6 Standard Assessment Tasks (Sats), the tests that ranks schools against each other. It talks about the opposition to tougher Sats introduced in 2014 including the reading and writing test issues and the teaching union's concerns on student's wellbeing and teacher workload. It informs about the stringent rules including the instructions, reporting arrangements, and posting off the papers.

The article discusses the use of pupil wellbeing programmes by schools to fill gaps in the provision of mental health services by the National Health Service (NHS) and protect the wellbeing of pupils. Topics discussed include use of services of children's mental health charity Place2Be by Viking Primary School in Northolt, England, use of mindfulness by schools to address examination stress, and tips for schools on approaching pupil wellbeing programmes. INSETS: How to approach pupil wellbeing programmes;'GCSEs increase the pressure'.

The author comments on the findings of the "World Happiness Report," released in May 2016 which highlighted the importance of wellbeing for student performance and the effect of well-being to all levels of engagement. Topics covered include the role school heads in championing wellbeing, the lack of government-led focus despite the increase in mental illness in the under-25s yearly, and the failure of academic courses, assessments and progression to cope with the complexities of being human.

The article offers tips to schools on preventing stereotypes from defining students. Topics discussed include the ramifications of putting labels on students based on their behavioral characteristics and socio-economic origins, the importance of looking at students as individuals and using person-first language in talking about them or with them and the need for teachers to focus more on the learning potential of a student rather than on what he cannot do.

The article focuses on a survey done by NAHT headteachers' union according to which a third of secondary schools in Great Britain are cutting back on the mental health support they offer pupils, with most blaming squeezed budgets. Topics discussed include schools to reduce services they provide to protect children's emotional and mental wellbeing; views of Sarah Hannafin, the NAHT's policy lead for secondary schools, on same, and reductions in health and social care budgets in the country.

The article focuses on the importance of assessment in primary schools and the necessary measures to conduct a meaningful assessment. Topics discussed include the inability of government to provide a framework to identify the schools that are falling short, replacing tests with teacher assessment, student well-being and creativity testing making the assessment process more complex, and importance of embrace the idea that the data from statutory assessments can add value to the assessment.

The article offers information on "The Good Childhood Report," by the Children's Society, which reveal that wellbeing of male and female school children changes as they age.

The article discusses the creation and use of the educational technology Speakr, a web-based system designed to allow students to express their feelings and emotions about their school and education, created by founder Anthony Lewis. It addresses the benefits of large-scale data collection on student attitudes, teachers' issues with removing a conversation about children's happiness to an online setting, and difficulty with assessing student well-being.

The article discusses the development and testing of a questionnaire designed to determine teenage students in Great Britain's levels of anxiety and depression. It addresses changes in Great Britain to the personal, social and health education curriculum, as well as comments on the impact of students' happiness and well-being on educational success. INSET: In two minds.

The article reports that helping students with problems can negatively impact teachers' mental health, citing a study by University of Bristol, England researchers. Topics include the role of teachers in doing with student emotional health, the links between student mental health and education, and the ability of teachers to deal with such issues. INSET: TRAINING REQUIRED.

The article offers information on the report of inspectorate Estyn concerning play-led approach in Wales' education to raise standards of literacy. It says that the foundation phase launched in 2008 delays the formal learning in favor of a play-led approach. It states that the phase had helped pupil well-being and achieved well. Moreover, school staffs are not convinced about the educational value of play-led and some have not properly implemented it, which results to a drop in literacy rates.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of meeting the teacher who helped him built his confidence and had made a lot of changes in his life as a student and as a person.

The author offers observation on high-maintenance parents. She shares her experience of being conscripted into the official parent online networks wherein the quality of school meals is widely condemned and other issues regarding students' well-being. The author emphasizes the importance of a strong adult role models.

The article discusses the difference between excellence and perfection, citing King's Ely school in Cambridgeshire, England, where they look out for excellence knowing that no one can give more than their best. Topics discussed include one excels with motivation and commitment to take ownership of one's own educational journey and develop a sense of personal responsibility, provision of holistic education to ensure wellbeing of students, and students enabled to follow intellectual curiosity.

The author criticizes the British teachers' unions for focusing solely on collective bargaining instead of talking about the wellbeing of students. The author states that there is some doubt whether the unions' protest against the proposed academization of British schools really represents most teachers' views. He claims that there has been a lack of support for the unions' plan to strike, mainly because striking will not do much for education and will only harm the students.

The author calls to support the students who are socially, emotionally, and academically unstable and urges for solutions that help the student cope up with his or her needs.

The article reports on the Primary Review of education in Great Britain. Research from professor emeritus John White, of England's University of London Institute of Education, focuses on the history of primary-school education in Great Britain. White notes a recurring theme of child-centered and individualized education, the changing purpose of primary education as social changes brought about expectations for continued education, and an increased focus on child well-being over time. INSET: Child-centred education? Or not?.

The article reports on Great Britain's "Children's Plan," the government's 10-year strategy for improving and encouraging cooperation between agencies that provide services to children, including education, health, and family services. The author focuses on the effects of the plan on education, explaining that it calls for all newly qualified teachers (NQTs) to obtain a masters degree early in their careers, increased parent participation in education, and improved school facilities.

The article reports on Sir Al Aynsley-Green, England's first children's commissioner and his actions during his first two years in office, during which the majority of his staff's time was spent on staffing and public profile. Aynsley-Green has visited schools, spoken about bullying, criticized extensive testing, and gathered children's views on topics such as extended schools and personalized learning. A comparison of Aynsley-Green to his counterparts within Great Britain is included. INSET: Untitled.

The article presents a chart depicting the 2013 World Happiness Report, particularly focusing on the role of education in determining citizens' happiness with their countries, as well as noting the percentage of 15-year-olds who believe their teachers are interested in their well-being.

The article reports on the study done on the exclusion of rich and poor students in England. Data reveals that institutions with highest numbers of wealthy families is at par with those of the poor areas that manifest class division in banning children from lessons. Researchers found that there is no link between exclusion and bad behaviour of students because the decision to suspend arises from the attitude of the teacher than the pupil. INSET: 'Sink' warning.

The article presents education news briefs in Great Britain. The "Sunday Times" newspaper reported that schools would receive guidance on preventing suicide bombers, but clarification revealed the guidance would be aimed at institutes of higher and further education. British pupils were ranked 24th of 29 in well-being. The "Daily Mail" newspaper reported that a study sees quality of schools as more of a factor than discrimination in students' higher education participation.