Time: 09:30 - 12:30
Free Course
Facilitator - Andrew Cowley
Andrew Cowley is an experienced primary practitioner, a former Deputy Head Teacher and a passionate advocate of principled and authentic well-being in our schools. In this course, Andrew will discuss how we can establish a culture of whole school well-being in our settings, how we might go about cementing this culture for children and will also focus upon wellbeing for school leaders.
Outline Programme
- What well-being is
- How well-being has changed in the pandemic
- The differences between a grown culture and a built culture
- The challenges and barriers to growing a positive culture
- Overcoming these barriers
- Embracing well-being for the whole community
- Steps forward
Audience
School leaders, Deputy/Assistant Heads, SLT, SBL's - all phases
- Established a shared definition of well-being
- Develop an understanding of the need to have a shared language and objective around well-being and mental health.
- Identify barriers to well-being that school cultures can present.
I will in this session refer to my work supporting schools through the requirement to have a Designated Well-being Lead in place by 2025
Andrew Cowley
Andrew Cowley is a former deputy headteacher who writes and speaks about wellbeing in schools. As co-founder of the Healthy Toolkit blog he promotes the challenging of attitudes and outlooks towards well-being, believing it to be a strategic consideration. Andrew is the author of The Well-being Toolkit, promoting strategic and values-led staff well-being and of The Well-being Curriculum, which develops a holistic approach to well-being for primary school. Both are published by Bloomsbury Education. Andrew is now working on well-being focussed CPD in schools, lessons and assemblies with children and is also a coach for the School Mental Health Award.