Spaces Available on our FREE Staff Wellbeing Training - Join Us Next Week!

This session will explore what impacts our wellbeing, recognise when we might be struggling, practice strategies for coping, become familiar with the 10 keys to happier living and develop your own wellbeing plan.

To book your space please click here

The following schools have recently been successful in achieving our Healthy Schools and/or Mental Health Champions Award. To find out more about our Awards please click here.

This scheme is open to all education settings in Gloucestershire including colleges and FE. Support is available for your whole journey from your schools GHLL Lead Teacher. For more information or an informal chat get in contact with us at ghll@gloucestershire.gov.uk

To book your space on one of the webinars click here

Kidscape have recieved funding to support young people, parents, and carers with bullying in Gloucestershire, Swindon and Wiltshire. 

Ygam in collaboration with Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning are offering a free gaming and gambling harm prevention workshop for youth-facing professionals such as teachers and youth workers.

This virtual event will be held on 30th April 15:30 - 17:30

Book your place here : Education Workshop Booking Pre Workshop Questions – Bespoke | Ygam

We're offering a FREE, one-day training course designed to upskill your team and boost confidence in tackling some of the most pressing issues facing young people today. From September 2026, the updated RSHE statutory guidance comes into force. Are your staff confident and ready to deliver it? Check out our poster for more information and how to book.

New session " Leading a More Reflective Culture- Theory, Strategies and Impact".

Click to find out more and book your space.

Pupils can create a coaster design to respresent being dementia aware - the winning design will see their coaster manufactured for use, and shared across the county. Open to all pupils of schools and colleges in Gloucestershire, entries can be submitted (using the template provided) anytime from now until closing date on Friday 8th of May 2026.

Template for Coaster Entries

Empathy Week is a FREE annual global festival of film, storytelling and events that helps develop the skill of empathy in students aged 5-18. This year it will take place 9^th- 13^th March 2026. Register here to take part. 

See GHLL's full Training Calendar for 2025-2026

⭐New sessions added on Self Harm Awareness and from EPS on Loss & Bereavement, Introduction to Emotional Coaching and Understanding Trauma and Attachment - FREE to attend ⭐

A new post, “Autumn Budget: What is the government is doing to improve outcomes for children with SEND” has just been published on the The Education Hub blog.

The government is making changes to the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) system. These changes aim to improve how children with SEND receive support.  It’s clear the SEND system is in dire need of reform. It is failing children and families at every turn, where outcomes for young people are nowhere near good enough.

Read the new post: https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2025/11/autumn-budget-for-children-with-send/

A major review of the curriculum – what children learn at school – and the qualifications and assessment system has just been published, and the government is making changes based on what it found.

The National Curriculum hasn’t been updated in over ten years, so these changes will ensure it stays relevant for today’s world.

What you need to know about the changes to the National Curriculum – The Education Hub

Gloucestershire County Council has launched a new online resource giving parents and guardians information about the benefits and risks of online spaces, with details of further information and where support is available. 

Click here to access the Information and Posters to display to raise awareness with you parents and carers about the new resource.

On Your Mind Glos is a place for Children and Young People to turn to when you need help and support with your mental health but you aren’t sure where to go. We have an anonymous Mental Health Support Finder, which is also available via text, for anyone aged 0-25 that will help you find the most appropriate support options for you in Gloucestershire. On Your Mind Glos also has some self help guides and resources designed for both young people and their families to provide general support and advice about self-care. Click here to find out more.

More than 6,000 Children from 113 Schools across Gloucestershire are particpating in the Big Brush Club. See the full report by BBC News featuring Bream Primary School where lessons on how to brush and daily brushing at school are having a positive impact on improving oral hygiene.

View information from Talk Well on their Eating Difficulties Counselling Service. 

Children will have experienced an average of 15 significant losses before adulthood, and may also encounter depictions of death in the media and social media, which are often explicit. The recent Covid-19 pandemic further highlighted change, loss and death, and children and their families may have experienced loss during this time.

PSHE Association have updated their Change, loss and grief lesson packs for KS1 - 4 to cover these topics safely, effectively and sensitively. ]

You will need a PSHE account to download these resources.

New data commissioned by domestic abuse charity Refuge reveals the scale of domestic abuse is significantly underestimated.  Read the full blog around the impactful educational campaign created in response.

Poor mental health and absence from school are impacting the education of children and in turn their futures. Read the full blog from GOV.UK on 'How we're helping children and teachers with their mental health and wellbeing' 

The results for the Pupil Wellbeing Survey have now been published. Click here to see the report.

Surfers Against Sewage "Plastic Free Schools" iniatitive is empowering the next generation of ocean activists. To find out more and sign your school up click here

Useful article from Claire Watts from High Speed Training, on what "Incel" means, the manosphere, and how this correlates to misogyny, radicalisation, and violence. This article looks at why teachers should be aware of Incel Culture and how Schools can tackle this issue.

The NHS Gloucestershire Asthma Team are looking into the current management of asthma in schools across the county. We would be very grateful if you could complete this questionnaire. The feedback you provide will be treated in the strictest confidence.  It will be stored securely and only used to improve this service. Thank you in advance for your responses. 

Please click here to complete the questionnaire. 

Please click here to view AFS resources. 

Lumi Nova: Tales of Courage is an engaging child-led, parent/guardian supported therapeutic intervention that can be used on most smartphones or tablets free for all Gloucestershire families. 

It facilitates graded exposures (the active ingredient of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) with psychoeducation to empower 7-12 year olds with mild to moderate needs to learn to self-manage fears, worries and anxiety.

myHappymind is an award winning programme for schools & nurseries, families and organisations. It is delivered by class teachers across 5 modules, all designed to develop critical knowledge and habits that support children’s mental health. This means that children can develop a toolkit of resources to use when they need to. For further information on the pilot click here

After the outbreak of war in Ukraine in early 2022, we all saw how the resulting conflict impacted tens of thousands of children through separation, loss or bereavement. Bear Us In Mind was launched to provide early intervention to support those children and the adults in their lives.

Whether you’re a teacher, teaching assistant, Head, Governor or a supporting adult from the child’s school or local community, Bear Us In Mind is designed to help you be a compassionate and confident thinking partner for a child when it’s most needed. Download the complete Bear Us In Mind toolkit guide here.  To receive your 'bear in a box' email ghll@gloucestershire.gov.uk 

Mental Health e-learning - Children and Young People's Mental Health

This short course will provide you with information and guidance to help support the young people you work alongside.

The course will introduce you to some common mental health and emotional wellbeing difficulties, and will provide you with practical examples that you can use to help you to recognise and respond to children’s emotional health and wellbeing.

The Big Plastic Count is back for 2026

Next year’s Count will take place from 9 to 15 March!

Save the date in your diaries and check out their website for more information https://thebigplasticcount.com/

If you have any questions in the meantime, get in touch on hello@everydayplastic.org 

Text and WhatsApp support from Winston's Wish now available 8am - 8pm