In previous articles for SecEd, I have mentioned a piece of research conducted in close collaboration with the Education Support Partnership by academics at City University London.
This looked into the value and importance of a break from work for your mental health and identified that when we say “I need a break”, what we are really expressing is more than simply a turn of phrase – but a scientifically proven fact!
The first round of the research identified the vital importance of having breaks in the school calendar to allow teachers’ emotional energy resources and psychological health to be restored.
Dr Paul Flaxman, the senior lecturer in organisational psychology at City University London, and his team asked a group of teachers to complete a brief survey at the end of eight consecutive weeks capturing the period before, during, and after the two-week Christmas break in 2013.
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