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Promoting staff wellbeing

Pupil wellbeing
The ‘head of staff formation and wellbeing’ is not a job title found in many schools. For Tom Caston, however, this role is a vital part of the school structure.

I have recently been appointed as “head of staff formation and wellbeing” at Ardingly College, a two to 18 co-ed school in West Sussex. This is a senior management team post and I think quite a progressive move. Ostensibly this is a pastoral role for staff and the job has three core elements:

Wellbeing – both for staff and the pupils.

How we manage career pathways and “self-realisation”.

The Ardingly Community – what it means to be a part of that.

When it comes to wellbeing, I have attended two mindfulness courses and am qualified to teach the .b mindfulness curriculum across the student body. I believe this type of practice will play a significant role in education in the future and I will be looking to embed this into the staff psyche too.

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