Health & Safety

That weird end-of-term feeling

Relief and worry. I can honestly say that without these breaks throughout the year, I personally wouldn’t be able to sustain the mental and emotional tax that this job takes on me

Teacher stress and wellbeing: how can we build a sustainable workforce?

Teacher stress is high, in fact teachers exhibit higher levels of stress than any other profession.

Promoting the wellbeing of students and teachers is the key to successful learning

Teachers already know how important wellbeing is, but knowing what to do about it is the real challenge.

School principal puts first aid skills into action in remote community

As a school principal on a remote island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Sarah Rowe was more than just a teacher.

NSW school breaks silence surrounding sexual abuse

Sydney’s Glenwood High School have produced a compelling and powerful video to help break the silence surrounding child sexual assault, in the lead up to Bravehearts’ annual, national White Balloon Day campaign.

Using the transformative power of theatre to enhance student wellbeing

Ken Robinson, in his seminal Ted Talk Do Schools Kill Creativity?, argues that our schooling systems are "educating people out of their creative capacities" and that we are not only growing out of our creativity, but "we get educated out of it’". But, when children are a part of a system, how can we do this?