Top tips

22.05.21

Emile is a lovely website, I especially like the section about how SLT can support mental well being.  Unfortunately, we know about how important it is and I hope someone from SLT in our schools sees it too but they also have a work/life balance section which we can use here.  Click here to go to the website.  The article talks about looking after ourselves through sleeping well and saving Friday night for yourself.  It also talks about taking up a hobby (mine is sewing and it is a great way to distract me and calm me down after a stressful day or week).  Take a look for yourself.

16.04.21

Just found this fantastic website!  It contains a large list of practical ways to reduce your workload specific to teaching and teachers.  The list contains 26 tips arranged into 3 areas - time saving, managing paperwork and managing assessment workload.  Well worth a full read.  Click here to read the full article and have a look around the website.

11.04.21

The Samaritan website has some amazing resources.  This one is a lesson about managing stress and understanding when something is out of your control or when your stress has become uncontrollable.  I have the 3 workshops ready to download, although the images below centres on the first session.  There is also a person outline for download to go with the first session.  Have a go at this session on your own and if you like it, have a look at the others.

27.03.21

A really useful article from https://www.healthyyoungmindsinherts.org.uk/.  It looks through 10 ways you can boost your emotional wellbeing and mental health.  The ten ways are: food and mood, keep active, drink sensibly, express yourself, distract yourself, ask for help, learn to take time out and relax, do something you enjoy, remember your good points and self-help.  If you would like to read the article in more detail click here

14.03.21

If you are not sure whether you have an anxiety disorder or not and would like to read more to make an informed decision then this is a great site.  Rethink Mental Illness has a page describing the signs and symptoms of anxiety so that you can assess yourself definitively and deal with it if you do.  They outline the many anxiety disorders that exist and have a real life story from Ali to read.  The site looks in detail at what these disorders look like and is very clear and easy to use.  I was very impressed with it.  Click here to go to the full article.

07.03.21

An article written by Deborah Jian Lee for Forbes, it goes through 6 ways to create a better work-life balance:

1. Let go of perfectionism
2. Unplug
3. exercise and meditate
4. Limit time-wasting activities and people
5. Change the structure of your life
6. Start small and build from there

If this sounds like an article you would like to read more about click here to go to the site.

28.02.21

Can you ever really be stressed when laughing?  This link will take you to the top 100 clips from 

You've Been Framed.  Everyone feels better after a good laugh!  Try it.

21.02.21

The BBC have a new site called Headroom, which is all about mental health.  It is a brilliant site covering what it feels like to have depression or a range of other mental health related conditions.  There are personal experiences from celebrities you may know and lots of useful links like music for sleeping.  It is definitely worth a look.  Click here to go to the site.

14.02.21

The NHS has a top 10 for stress busters.  They are:

1. Be active

2. Take control

3. Connect with people

4. Have some 'me time'

5. Challenge yourself

6. Avoid unhealthy habits

7. Help other people

8. Work smarter not harder

9. Try to be positive

10. Accept the things you can't change

Click here to go to the NHS website with more details.

06.02.21

This week our top tip is a 10 minute meditation specially made for teachers.  It is a really nice sequence of simple calming techniques that once you've watched you can fit into any time of day.  You can just practice some of the breathing techniques if you're feeling particularly stressed or give yourself the full 10 minutes each morning.  Take a look.

30.01.21

A Lust For Life have 5 tips to deal with anxiety in the workplace.  This is one of them:

To read all 5 tips you can find the article here.