Background
SHINE was delighted to receive an additional grant award from the Medical Research Council in 2021, which enabled us to offer some development posts to the educational workforce to support the future development and roll out of SHINE.
After a rigorous selection process, three teachers were invited to join the SHINE team on a part-time basis from August 2021 to March 2022. The blended working week provided excellent scope to facilitate a live and extended interaction between teachers in the school setting and researchers in the Social and Public Health Sciences Unit. The opportunities for knowledge exchange and sharing good practice through a collaborative approach to improving young people’s health and wellbeing were many and varied, culminating in a highly successful and productive period in SHINE’s development.
We would like to thank in particular the three Headteachers and also Glasgow City Council and Aberdeenshire Council for granting permission for these secondments.
Webinar: A catch up with the SHINE Development Officers
This webinar was held on Wednesday 23rd and Thursday 24th February 2022 and showcases the work of our SDOs. Lynn, Fiona and Kelly present their development work which charts the progress of embedding the SHINE model in both primary and secondary schools. They also share some tips and advice on how to use SHINE data reports as part of a whole-school approach to wellbeing in a school setting.
Meet our SDOs
Lynn Alexander
Bannerman High School
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Lynn teaches within Social Subjects, Nurture groups and wider pastoral support at Bannerman High School in Glasgow City Council. As SHINE was not previously established in the school prior to Lynn’s secondment, Lynn was able to explore the timescales, challenges and facilitators associated with establishing the SHINE model in a large, urban secondary school. With a particular interest in parental engagement with health and wellbeing data, Lynn was interested to find the best way to share the learning from the SHINE data reports across the school community to involve all stakeholders in discussions about improving young people’s health and wellbeing.
Kelly Craig
Meldrum Academy
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Kelly is the HWB Lead at Meldrum Academy in Aberdeenshire Council. Kelly took on the role of SHINE Lead in her school in the academic session 2020-2021, so had a head-start with the planning around her development work. Having already used the SHINE Mental Health Pupil Online survey, Kelly was particularly interested in implementing the SHINE mental health survey data report at the centre of whole-school approach to improving young people’s mental health and wellbeing with a newly formed HWB committee. Having already made links with the HWB team at Aberdeenshire Council, Kelly supported discussions around scaling up to a Local Authority SHINE model, based on sharing her practice and insight as a SHINE Lead with other schools in the Local Authority.
Fiona MacDonald
Scotstoun Primary School
Read more about Fiona
Fiona is a class teacher and qualified PE specialist at Scotstoun Primary School in Glasgow City Council. As Scotstoun PS was not a member of the SHINE network prior to Fiona’s secondment, Fiona was able to explore the best way to embed the SHINE model as part of a whole-school approach to health and wellbeing in a primary school. Fiona was interested in how data collected in P6 and P7 can inform the whole learning community about the factors which influence health and wellbeing. The resources developed by Fiona to support this understanding was trialled by 5 schools and is shared with the wider network members in the members’ resources area.
Legacy
The learning from the development work has been captured in a variety of ways to share with the wider network members, associates and the public. Outputs include:
• Presentations at the SHINE Virtual Annual Network Conference in November 2021 (slides and recordings available in the SHINE members’ digital folder).
• Formal secondment reports with the full record of their development work.
• A resource pack of lesson plans and activities for primary schools to support the use of the SHINE mental health survey.
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Contact us
Email: shw-shine@glasgow.ac.uk
Address: FAO: SHINE, School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Clarice Pears Building, 90 Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8TB