Two campaigners who have launched the country’s first day-long online festival devoted to wellbeing for students and teachers hope it is the start of “a mental health revolution in our schools and colleges”.
Jonny Benjamin and Louisa Rose have organised the Now and Beyond on Inside Out Day event on Wednesday to coincide with Children’s Mental Health Week, and have already seen more than 1,000 schools and colleges from across the UK and beyond sign up to the programme of workshops, teaching resources and expert sessions.
The event will allow teachers, their pupils and parents to access specialist materials and live seminars covering various areas of wellbeing, including a panel discussion with BBC Radio 1 presenter Katie Thistleton, rapper Shocka, and medical doctor and broadcaster Dr Radha Modgil.
December 21st 2020 / Melanie Macleod / 0 comment
Dr Jo Ward nearly died from Covid, Katie Brindle became an unexpected influencer at 50 and Ruby Hammer discovered she d still got a long way to go when it came to banana bread. 10 experts share the highs and lows of their year
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times – 2020 has been a year like no other. While our diaries may have emptied, our heads certainly haven t. It s been a time for introspection and finding out our strengths and weaknesses when we don t have access to our usual support systems. Taking time to look back on what we ve learned (not just that we don t like wearing a bra) can help give us some perspective rather than just writing off 2020 as the year we all want to forget, says Dr Radha Modgil, NHS GP and BBC Radio 1 medical expert. “Asking ourselves how we’ve changed and how we want to move forward can help us all manage to get something good and positive out of a really to