<![CDATA[Warwick School News Feed - Wellbeing Blog]]> https://www.warwickschool.org%2Fwellbeing%2Dblog Juniper Education Content Management System (CMS) Version: 4.5 (junipereducation.org) Thu, 23 Nov 2023 14:05:25 GMT Thu, 23 Nov 2023 14:05:25 GMT <![CDATA[ Anxiety resources and techniques ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/wellbeing-blog/anxiety-resources-and-techniques Following a highly successful Pastoral Forum led by Oliver Welsby on anxiety in young people, please find further information attached to this blog post about supporting young people with anxiety.

]]> Fri, 22 Sep 2023 11:32:47 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/wellbeing-blog/anxiety-resources-and-techniques <![CDATA[ Open to new light. ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=3099 This, I regret to say, is my last wellbeing blog for Warwick School. It was a real joy to start it off with Martin Hewitt a few years ago, and it has been good to see other voices contribute.

]]> Fri, 17 Sep 2021 14:29:46 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=3099 <![CDATA[ Sometimes, feelings have to be felt. ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=3065 ‘Resilience’ is a buzzword at the moment. If we all build up our resilience, if we teach children and young people to be resilient, then – hey presto! – we will be able to deal with life’s irritations, difficulties and catastrophes, using our strategies and skills. We will be able to bounce back to business as usual, almost seamlessly.

]]> Mon, 5 Jul 2021 14:07:44 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=3065 <![CDATA[ Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=3034 Exam time. Here we go again, but this time with a difference. I had hoped that the process of teacher assessed grades would prove less stressful than the traditional ‘blitz it in all-in-one-go’ approach, but sadly, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

]]> Fri, 21 May 2021 19:46:07 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=3034 <![CDATA[ An Attitude of Gratitude ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2980 A Wellbeing Blog Story for World Book Week

]]> Tue, 18 May 2021 17:30:51 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2980 <![CDATA[ Managing winter lockdown ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2970 Many of us are spending unprecedented amounts of time hunched over computers. We are in the ‘sad chimp’ position.

]]> Wed, 24 Feb 2021 12:36:02 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2970 <![CDATA[ Thoughts for a ‘dark’ lockdown ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2874 So here we are in lockdown again and this time without the sunshine!

]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2020 13:51:24 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2874 <![CDATA[ Remembering the Good Things ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2831 As we start a new academic year, I’m reflecting on the aims I had at the beginning of the calendar year, in January 2020. Those of you who follow this blog will know that I take time out to reflect on my life from time to time and consider how my life is going - where to next? Ha! If only I had the gift of foresight!

]]> Tue, 18 May 2021 17:29:37 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2831 <![CDATA[ A Journey of Sadness and of Hope ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2808 Isn’t this a wonderful picture? It was entered into our Wellbeing Competition by Isaac Turner, but somehow it failed to arrive. Thanks to Isaac’s form tutor, Mr Walker for pursuing what had happened to it and to Isaac for giving his permission to use it here. I’m so glad it arrived in the end!

]]> Thu, 17 Sep 2020 11:44:58 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2808 <![CDATA[ Expecting the Unexpected ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2798 Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.......

]]> Thu, 18 Jun 2020 11:14:16 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2798 <![CDATA[ Aiming for Lower (Simpler) Things? ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2780 So here we are beginning to come out of lockdown -  though I am sure for many of us it doesn’t feel much different because children and young people are still at home!

]]> Thu, 4 Jun 2020 09:40:17 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2780 <![CDATA[ Corona! ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2760 I’m writing this from home on another stunning Spring morning. What a bizarre time this is, so uncertain and yet full of unexpected beauty! After many months of trudging through mud with my dog, Rosa, we are suddenly enjoying the best Spring weather I’ve experienced in years. 

]]> Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:57:14 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2760 <![CDATA[ Staying Motivated ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2741 Does this school remind you of somewhere rather close to home?! In fact, it’s Cheadle Hulme School, the secondary school that I attended. Back in the day, I was on a free place, funded by Stockport Council because it was a ‘direct grant’ school. 

]]> Fri, 6 Mar 2020 13:44:38 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2741 <![CDATA[ Listening ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2725 ‘You’re not LISTENING!’ 

How many times have we heard that frustrated cry? 

]]> Fri, 14 Feb 2020 11:08:05 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2725 <![CDATA[ Living a different story ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2707 Shortly before the end of last term, I took a day off work. The reason? A bad cold. I probably could have staggered into work and pretended I was doing a decent job, but the truth is, each counselling session takes fifty minutes of intense concentration and the fug of a cold really interferes with the process.

]]> Thu, 16 Jan 2020 15:07:35 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2707 <![CDATA[ The Inner Child ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2675 Losing a parent when you are young is, inevitably, sad and difficult. Sad but not inevitable is feeling that our parents are absent when they are actually still with us.

]]> Fri, 29 Nov 2019 09:25:00 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2675 <![CDATA[ Living in Two Homes ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2660 "Let me share something personal with you: I live in two different places!"

]]> Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:38:55 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2660 <![CDATA[ Flexibility for Resilience? ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2634 I had a proud mother moment at the weekend. I went to Oslo to the launch of the Oslo Triennale Architecture Festival, which my oldest son is co-curating with three other young architects. This is the son of whom I nearly despaired when he was a teenager – he was not sure of what he wanted, and we often found it hard to communicate. So, if you are having a trying time with your teenager – take heart…It can get better!

]]> Fri, 4 Oct 2019 10:37:10 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2634 <![CDATA[ Resilience and Dogs ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2622 As with dogs, so with boys and ourselves!

]]> Wed, 18 Sep 2019 14:37:28 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2622 <![CDATA[ “as little as possible!” ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2588 … is my evasive answer to the pervasive question:  “what will you do in your retirement?”.  It enables me to avoid telling all my plans to all and sundry, but it is not at all false.

]]> Fri, 5 Jul 2019 10:43:44 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2588 <![CDATA[ Leadership Styles and Parenting ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2581 Several years ago, I worked with a boy who was having some very difficult friendship issues.

]]> Thu, 20 Jun 2019 11:14:02 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2581 <![CDATA[ You had a really good week,........ ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2569 You had a really good week, but there was one event that spoiled it – and that is the only thing you can think about. 

]]> Mon, 10 Jun 2019 09:32:21 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2569 <![CDATA[ The Uninvited Guests from the Unremembered Past? ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2552 ‘You’ve made your bed so you’ll have to lie in it.’ ‘Life isn’t a bed of roses’.

]]> Wed, 15 May 2019 14:58:03 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2552 <![CDATA[ Nature Deficit Disorder ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2537 Not just another medical term, but a phrase coined by Richard Louv to describe the fact that people, and particularly children, are spending less and less time in direct contact with the natural world.

]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2019 12:08:32 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2537 <![CDATA[ Sharing what helps... ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2524 Have you heard of Sara Bareilles? She’s currently getting plaudits for the music for the West End show ‘Waitress’ but I wouldn’t have noticed that if I hadn’t been introduced to her work by one of my young clients. He shared with me her song ‘Brave’ which was inspiring him at the time and which has inspired me ever since, both the music and the official video. I’m sure it’ll be only too obvious why I like it! Watch and listen here:

]]> Fri, 29 Mar 2019 10:27:10 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2524 <![CDATA[ Meaning and Purpose Matter ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2511 The search for meaning appears to be at the heart of being human.  Is there any parent who has not fended off the repeated question “but why…?”. From our time as young children we have tried to make sense of the world, and throughout our lives we search for meaning in the events that happen to us and around us.

]]> Mon, 18 Mar 2019 12:03:51 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2511 <![CDATA[ Materialism ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2500 ‘How much does your dad earn?’ ‘What sort of car does your mum drive?’

]]> Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:28:49 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2500 <![CDATA[ Kindness Pass It On ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2239 Sunday, 17 February is Random Acts of Kindness Day.

]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2019 09:48:27 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2239 <![CDATA[ Be Kind ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2480 Exactly one year ago we started this blog – as an act of kindness to our community; to encourage us all to think about the wellbeing of ourselves and our families.  

]]> Tue, 12 Feb 2019 09:28:46 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2480 <![CDATA[ Go-Getter or Go-Giver? ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2470 I read a great book recently – ‘Thrive’ by Ariana Huffington, the founder of ‘The Huffington Post’.

]]> Wed, 23 Jan 2019 13:23:19 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2470 <![CDATA[ Creatures of Paradox and Glory ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2459 a mass of contradictions ... a paradox ... my life, your life, each of our lives.  And just how do we live with this mass of contradictions?

]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:17:29 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2459 <![CDATA[ Light up the dark months ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2447 These are dark and uncertain times for all of us. This particular December day is not exactly helping! In terms of our own and our children’s well-being, it’s important to be aware that both literal and metaphorical darkness have their effect. 

]]> Fri, 7 Dec 2018 10:14:12 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2447 <![CDATA[ Be kind to yourself ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2426 A neuroscientist and a Buddhist monk discuss the role of compassion in mental health. No, this isn’t the start of an unusual joke, it’s a very helpful book called Mindful Compassion by Paul Gilbert & Choden.

]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2018 14:43:52 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2426 <![CDATA[ Creating Self-Esteem ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2415 What is the typical Warwick boy like? Creative? Curious? Confident?

]]> Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:55:06 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2415 <![CDATA[ Happiness ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2403 Happiness is a doing word. 

]]> Mon, 8 Oct 2018 15:13:20 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2403 <![CDATA[ Busyness ]]> https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2395 ‘Attend to what love requires of you which may not be great busyness.’

]]> Wed, 19 Sep 2018 14:16:03 GMT https://www.warwickschool.org/news/?pid=5&nid=1028&storyid=2395