“What Was The Alternative?”: A Pedagogical Exploration of R (EBB) v Gorse Academy Trust [2025]
By Elijah Wisken “[…] at the heart of the challenge is the matter of the reasonableness of the School’s having engineered an outcome in which the Claimants had spent anything up to a fifth, a quarter, or approaching a half, of an academic year removed from classroom teaching. And that is the core question with…
Gratitude Through the Lens of Neuroscience
By Boseok Kim 24th May 2025 Perhaps you’ve all heard it: “Look on the bright side”, “count your blessings”, or “practise gratitude”. It’s easy to dismiss these phrases as clichés, especially when life feels overwhelming. But what if gratitude wasn’t just a feel-good platitude? What if it was a powerful tool, backed by neuroscience, that could…
Equations & Emotions:
The Hidden Cost of Maths Anxiety by Yixin Wang Abstract Maths anxiety is defined as fear, tension, and discomfort which are felt by some individuals in situations involving mathematics, which may interfere with the performance of mathematical tasks. It can be caused by individual, family, and(or) school factors. It can be explained from a neuroscience…
Where’s the Wellbeing in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill?
Ros McLellan and Catherine Fraser-Andrews March 2025 Introduction Given the well-documented concern about the poor state of children and young people’s wellbeing in England (Chollet et al., 2024), including reports of some of the lowest levels of child wellbeing across the world (UNICEF Innocenti, 2020), it is a welcome development to see The Children’s Wellbeing…
Taking time to talk about teacher wellbeing
By Laura Oxley In a time when the teaching profession is experiencing a recruitment and retention crisis, improving our understanding of teacher wellbeing is an essential area of research. One of the key factors that has been identified as contributing to a decline in teacher wellbeing is intensification of workload and time pressure (Collie, 2023;…
End of Term Tidings
By Liz Fordham As the Michaelmas term draws to a close, Liz reminds us of the importance of attending to our own wellbeing, as well as to the wellbeing of others, over the Christmas holiday. ‘Love hunger’ at Christmas As I struggled through hoards of shoppers at a Christmas market recently, I was mindful of…
Travels with my SIG…
By The Wellbeing and Inclusion Committee In Grame Greene’s novel Travels with My Aunt (Greene, 1977), the protagonist, Henry, lives in a suburban and predictable world. His encounter with his vivacious and counter-cultural Aunt Augusta, and their subsequent adventures together, expand Henry’s world immeasurably. Through his travels with his aunt, Henry recognises the prejudice and…
‘The Ripple Effect?’: Exploring the Potential Effects of Extrinsic Dysregulation on Youth Mental Health
By Evelyn Mary-Ann Antony Introduction Prior research has suggested that emotional dysregulation is a key characteristic of youth psychopathological issues, including ADHD, depression and anxiety. Emotional dysregulation can be understood as “emotional expressions and experiences that are excessive in relation to social norms and context-inappropriate; rapid, poorly controlled shifts in emotion (‘lability’); and the anomalous…
The new epidemic: AI, deepfake technology, and the need to act now to protect child wellbeing
By Nomisha Kurian “To be in a situation where you see young girls traumatised at a vulnerable stage of their lives is hard to witness,” said the mayor of a New Jersey town in November 2023 (Blanco, 2023). Her remark referred to a fresh form of psychological warfare sweeping the local school community through deepfake…
Enough with the literature already!
David Baker, March 2024 There is a debate to be had about the role of literature in a research study of wellbeing. There are three reasons for this. Firstly, wellbeing is a live issue, with new literature appearing all the time, much of it containing new data. Secondly, it is a multifaceted phenomenon. I would…
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