By Anna Partridge When presenting at the SA Wellbeing Leaders in Schools Conference a few weeks ago, I discussed many different theories and ideas behind whole school wellbeing programs and their contextual nature to the school. Two ideas really resonated with the audience – the first was the idea that a wellbeing program needs to… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Education
Building RESILIENCE in Education: For Educators
I have spoken to several school leaders recently about how to build resilience in students. I love this question. I think about it daily and I will share some of my thoughts with you to build resilience in our students. Let’s look at the dictionary definition of resilience. In the Oxford Dictionary, there are two… Continue Reading
The Art of Raising a Resilient Child – my book out now!
When I moved to America on a posting with my Military husband in 2010, we had three little children aged 5, 3, and almost 1. It was our fourth move together in six years and we were on the path of moving from house to house and city to city, every couple of years. With… Continue Reading
Doing Small Things with Great Love: wellbeing in a classroom looks like this…
By Anna Partridge Classrooms are hubs for student learning. Traditional classrooms teach children how to read and write and do maths. In the modern classroom, social and emotional development is just as important as academics. Student wellbeing is high on the agenda and a regular focus. Research shows that high EQ (Emotional Intelligence) is a… Continue Reading
Travel with Kids: 5 Things To Do In Sedona
As we drove towards Sedona through the scorching Arizonan desert in the USA, the looming red hills began to rise up to meet us and little did we know at the time that this town would become our Number 1 place to stay on our road trip through Arizona. If you are planning a trip… Continue Reading
How To Find Your Child’s SPARK: What Every Parent Needs To Know
As a school teacher, I have the absolute privilege of looking for and finding the SPARK of 26 children every day. I get to see what the children I teach love, what lights them up, what fires their bellies and what they are passionate about. I observe how they interact with literature, numbers, history, geography… Continue Reading