by H1pAdm1n | May 2, 2026 | School Wellbeing
RSE has moved from a quiet curriculum corner to one of the most politically charged items on a Northern Ireland principal’s desk. The 2023 DE guidance update, the parent campaigns that followed it, and the wider UK noise around RSHE in England have left a lot of...
by H1pAdm1n | May 2, 2026 | School Wellbeing
Most NI schools we work with handle bereavement well in the moment a pupil dies, where the shape of the response is clear. Where things get harder is the slower, more frequent situation: a pupil’s parent, sibling or grandparent has died, the funeral is over, and...
by H1pAdm1n | May 2, 2026 | School Wellbeing
Almost every NI principal we speak with is in the middle of, or has just finished, a phones policy review. The 2024 DfE guidance for England, the noise around Australia’s under-16 social media ban, and visible parent campaigns have made this the policy item that...
by H1pAdm1n | May 2, 2026 | School Wellbeing
Five years ago an NI vice-principal could go a full term without a serious school refusal case. In 2026 most post-primaries we work with are juggling two or three open EBSA cases at any one time, and several pupils sitting in the grey zone — attending three days a...
by H1pAdm1n | Apr 29, 2026 | School Wellbeing
Shared Education in Northern Ireland is one of those policies that looks straightforward on paper and gets complicated the moment two staff teams sit down to plan a joint Year 8 trip. The intent is real. So is the workload. And the difference between a partnership...
