Tag: wellbeing

Protecting and boosting our children’s well-being on their return from lockdown

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I am very excited about the children’s return to campus on 8th March with all the opportunities and enjoyment this is sure to bring.  Once again, despite many uncertainties, with your support and that of their teachers, our pupils have dealt with all that has been thrown at them with a great deal of resourcefulness, […]

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Pupil Happiness and wellbeing on return to school

.Reading time 15 minutes.

We are certainly not planning to start in early September by simply launching into the new timetable, reminding our pupils of the processes in place and expecting them to just ‘get on with things.’  As always, we need to be mindful of their happiness and wellbeing in all we do too. Insecurity, confusion, trepidation, bewilderment […]

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Measuring Growth New Zealand Style

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I was interested to read this week that New Zealand has not only begun to evaluate the value of government projects in terms of GDP, but also their impact on the well-being on its population. Bids to the Treasury for money from now will not only need a cost-benefit analysis, but also an assessment of the project’s contribution […]

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Mental Health and Well-being – So what next? 

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In last week’s newsletter, I drew attention to the plethora of statistics that appear to suggest that a growing number of young people are struggling with aspects of their mental health and well-being, despite measures of our standard of living signifying that in so many ways ‘we have never had it so good.’  It is easy to get […]

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