by HIP Psychology team | May 4, 2026 | School Wellbeing
staff training schools wellbeing is a search phrase, but behind it is a real school decision: what support will actually help pupils and staff? Staff training for school wellbeing should make the school day easier to navigate, not add another abstract initiative. Good...
by HIP Psychology team | May 4, 2026 | School Wellbeing
emotional support schoolchildren is a search phrase, but behind it is a real school decision: what support will actually help pupils and staff? Emotional support for schoolchildren works best when it is ordinary, visible and easy to access. Pupils should not have to...
by HIP Psychology team | May 4, 2026 | School Wellbeing
school psychology northern ireland is a search phrase, but behind it is a real school decision: what support will actually help pupils and staff? School psychology in Northern Ireland is most useful when it helps staff understand what is happening underneath...
by HIP Psychology team | May 4, 2026 | School Wellbeing
wellbeing in schools is a search phrase, but behind it is a real school decision: what support will actually help pupils and staff? Wellbeing in schools is not a single assembly, display board or annual awareness week. For school leaders, the useful question is how...
by HIP Psychology team | 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 HIP Psychology team | 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 HIP Psychology team | 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 HIP Psychology team | 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 HIP Psychology team | 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...
by HIP Psychology team | Apr 29, 2026 | School Wellbeing
The make-up of Northern Ireland’s classrooms is changing faster than most school policies. In the last decade we have moved from a small number of schools with EAL pupils to a position where almost every post-primary in the greater Belfast and north-west areas...
