Staff wellbeing ideas

[QueenArnica]

Hi all,

Have posted this in The Staffroom but thought I’d be cheeky and post for traffic here too.
Have a zoom meeting on Monday as am
part of a group at school (primary) tasked with staff wellbeing. Minuscule budget and need to make it meaningful. Does anyone have any best practice/tips/ideas of things that work in their school. Need to cover current times (lockdown) and when we’re all back in school.

Alternatively anyone work in a business that has inexpensive ideas to promote staff wellbeing that I could adapt for school?

Thanks so much in advance.

I work in a field related to change management.

There have been numerous studies done that show that employees value genuine interactions over and above material rewards, and the most highly valued of those is recognition from their peers.

A well-worded email or, ideally a card or letter, is worth a million £5 candles or bloody hot chocolates.

@cardibach

We have bake-offs that contribute house points (and we get to eat 'clean' home baking if you know you know), mini sport events after school that the kids can hang around to watch. We have a healthy living ambassador that ran a kind of 'get out there' type thing - send a pic of your daily exercise which was uploaded to the school twitter feed, which actually encouraged lots of kids to get some fresh air OMFG. I’d have to resign. This is all shit, shit, shit and just adds pressure. House points? I’m not 12. Baking? No thanks, if I liked doing it I’d fucking do it. Sport? Ditto. And if I did I wouldn’t want kids bloody watching. My daily exercise on twitter? Fuck off. Does anyone really think this stuff is appropriate for professional adults? If they say it’s lovely it’s only because they fear the backlash. They hate you and your well-being team to the core if their being *@Ffsffsffsffsffs*

I have to agree. That all sounds awful! I really hate baking and enforced sporting events. I especially don’t want children to watch me huff and puff about. A picture on Twitter?

@HunterHearstHelmsley

Weekly wellbeing hour (or 2 hours a fortnight). We have this at my workplace. I start late every other Monday, a workmate finishes early every other Friday. Actually feels like a perk. That fortnightly lie in is ace.

This sounds lovely but not really possible in a school unfortunately.