School work, and work, is, or at least can be, a positive contributor to a child or adult's wellbeing. Often, when wellbeing is spoken o...

My colleague Yasemin Cevik asked me to join this Teachmeet but unfortunately I had to decline her offer. Instead I wrote a quick answer t...

"I remember finding ways to get out of maths lessons as a youngster. My favourite ruse was to offer to tidy up the teacher’s cupbo...

In March, Damian Hinds announced that the DfE were going to implement measures to reduce teacher workload in an attempt to head off t...

Recently a secondary teacher got in touch with me asking if I'd consider sharing something he had written about something that was go...

In her book 'The Four Tendencies' author Gretchen Rubin outlines four ways in which people respond to expectations. According to...

We’ve all experienced the moment when, mid-work, the computer begins to automatically shut-down; it needs its updates and a restart. Ou...

I have been known to write about, and comment upon, wellbeing (possible understatement). My interest in reducing workload - my o...

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Tonight is date night. I say that as if it's a regular fixture in our calendar but it's not. It should be though. My wife is a sta...

'Liturgy of the Hours' is a Roman Catholic practice which I've not time to even begin to really understand. In brief, though,...

When you've had a bad day, don't exacerbate it. I covered an ill colleague's class today and let's just say they didn...

I'm going to bed. I'm actually in bed now. A full three hours ahead of when I went to bed last night. Sometimes you've just go...

I go up, pull open the blinds, set up the little fold-out table and just sit, looking out over the city. It's not a particularly pictu...

Riley: I... I know you don't want me to, but... I miss home. I miss Minnesota. You need me to be happy, but I want my old friends, an...