promoting student well-being through frog
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Promoting student wellbeing through Frog Concerns over the mental health and wellbeing of students in the UK are growing in today’s pressurised society. Hylton Cornish will explore some of the new functionality coming into Frog to help schools address the ‘holistic development of students’ and how it can be used to gain a greater understanding of the whole student and promote well-being.TRANSCRIPT
Promoting student well-being through Frog
Hylton CornishHead of Education Services, Frog
Promoting Student Well-Being Future Developments to promote SEAL
Hylton CornishHead of Education Services
[email protected]@hyltsc
Generation X
School = Happiest Days of my Life
Stress free & fun
Generation Z• Never known a world
without the Internet, Mobile phones or iPods
• Lived their entire lives with instant access to mountains of data
• They crave constant and immediate feedback
• Great at multi-tasking• Prefer to communicate
in short bursts than engage in long conversations
• Far more ‘aware’ of the world around them and are growing up faster than any other previous generation
Why focus on the ‘whole child’?
• Over the past 10 years, UK school children have become more
Stressed & NervousAngryProne to eating disorders & self harm
35% -fear being bullied
12% - have a clinically diagnosed mental illness
132% - the increase in hospital admissions by teenagers since 2001 due to self-harming or eating disorders (16,000 15-19yr olds in 2012)
3:10 students say they are currently unhappy
(Mentoring & Befriending Society 2012)
Edward Timpson MP (Under Secretary of State for Children & Families)
“It’s crucial that our schools give young people a stronger voice and don’t ignore theiremotional needs”
Time (weeks)
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Frog Education Services
A consultancy service made up of Teachers, Senior leaders, freelance advisers, Ofsted inspectors & University Academics with the aim to provide additional ‘whole school’ services to schools
Hylton CornishHead of Education Services
@hyltsc