Staff wellbeing ideas

[QueenArnica]

Hi all,
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.

Thanks so much in advance.

Do nothing token. Do nothing that takes up time, eg yoga.

Look at your policies and review them with wellbeing in mind. Is the marking load too high? Do all staff need to attend every event? Do they need to be on site for PPA?

Current times I'd check how staff are set up for remote learning and see if there was any equipment needed to make it better. Eg laptop stands, better chairs.

I'd really welcome an opportunity to socialise with other staff at the moment. I am so lonely when my only interaction is with recalcitrant teenagers via Google classroom!

Obviously I mean to interact virtually. A zoom tea and a chat once a week or similar.

Great idea about social time. Even better if you can use some directed time for it or make it completely optional so that staff aren't obliged to turn up.
Replace a meeting with an email and have a social chat.

As long as the social time is optional, even if it is in directed time. I can’t stand being forced to sit and listen when I’ve got so much work to do.
My tip is a water heater in every staff room so tea and coffee making is really quick.

From a grumpy, overworked and completely drained teacher: I don’t want to engage with any well-being, however kind the thought behind it may be. If it is another thing I have to do or think about then I am not interested.

The only well-being I am on board with is anything that gives me time - a true luxury. Let me leave early / come in late for PPA (after lockdown), do my form time or duty for me, make meaningful changes to workload by scrapping some of the pointless stuff I have to do.

I am not interested in cake or yoga, but one of the most amazing things I have seen was a school with their own tea lady who had tea and coffee ready in mugs at the beginning of break. That was amazing! Nowadays for some reason I hardly manage to go to the loo, let alone have a cuppa.

Actually, a proper healthy lunch offer would be great. I would even pay for it myself, just as long as you organise the ordering and delivery to the staff room.

Free tea and coffee.
Yes yes yes to water heater. Our old line manager arranged for us to have one in our office. Current Slt took the office away and the heater.
Nothing that takes time - I dont want school yoga/relaxation etc. I want more time to do what I want.
Less marking.
Work from home in first-thing / last thing frees.
More of inset time spent in department doing what we deem necessary rather than whole-school (not more inset).
More consultation.
More consideration of our views.
Well being working parties actually listened to rather than a tick-box exercise.
Good luck!

@PenOrPencil
Agree 100%
Our technicians used to do the same.
We got banned.

It's all about giving us time back.
Even hot water heater = hot drink AND time to nip to the loo.