The PlanBee Blog

While we are all socially distancing, acts of kindness now are maybe more important than ever. Think about how you are being kind to yourself and others and use the ten tips below to improve the mental health of your children.

Talking about illness and bereavement are incredibly challenging conversations to have. Use these tips to support you support a child at a difficult time. 

A third of teachers spent more than TWO WEEKS of the summer holidays on planning and preparation according to a teacher workload survey....

Achieving a healthy primary teacher work life balance may seem as unrealistic as having a unicorn for a class pet, but it doesn’t have to be a pipe dream.

Mental Health is hitting the headlines a lot and the figures are scary. Here is some of the data taken from the NHS’ Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2017 publication and how it relates to the children in your primary school class.

With children's mental health increasingly becoming an issue in primary schools, we wanted to have a think about what mentally healthy schools look like, why mental health in schools is important and explore some quick, easy tips for creating mentally healthy classrooms.

Mental health is making the news a lot at the moment, from teachers’ stress levels to the impact social media is having on children. But what exactly is good mental health and what does good mental health look like in schools?

You’re an ECT. You’re fired up and ready to knock this teaching thing out of the park. You’re loving the job (mostly) and keen to learn everything you can. Yet in your enthusiasm, your ECT work-life balance has become well and truly unbalanced, what can you do...?