Introducing our new SHINE Development Officers The SHINE Team is delighted to welcome three new members of staff joining us as SHINE Development Officers from August 2021 to February/March 2022 this academic session. These posts resulted from extra funding from the MRC, creating one part-time GU post and two part-time secondments for three teachers. It […]
The SHINE team were delighted to see the SHINE online mental health survey included as a resource for additional assessment of pupil health and wellbeing in the recently published Scottish Government Framework document Whole School Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing – gov.scot (www.gov.scot). This comes after a very successful year in which nearly 50% of […]
Since the start of the first COVID lockdown last March, the SHINE network has tripled in size. Today we are celebrating the 500th Scottish school to join us. It has never been more apparent how important it is to work together to improve wellbeing outcomes for young people. Schools tell us that they value the […]
Webinar 6 in the SHINE Expert Webinar Series will take place on Wednesday 28th April 2021 at 4pm using the virtual platform Zoom. The theme is “eNurture – young people’s mental health in the digital age”. We are delighted that Professor Gordon Harold from the University of Cambridge will be sharing his insights and knowledge […]
Teenagers are not lazy! Experts from the @SCRAMS15 network have come together to bust myths and share tips on teenage sleep this #WorldSleepDay 😴 Read more here > https://scrams.sphsu.gla.ac.uk/?page_id=213
We are very much looking to Webinar 5 in the SHINE series, which will take place on Wednesday 27th January, 2021 at 4pm on Zoom. Our special guests will be Professor Simon Hunter with 3 PhD students, Rebecca Johnson, Sofia Pimenta and Rachel Taylor, who will be talking about their research and sharing their expertise […]
SHINE Virtual Conference Sept 2020 webinars “Supporting young people with anxiety” Professor Cathy Richards, Lead Clinician & Head of Psychology CAMHS, Hon. Professor University of Edinburgh and Gillian Barclay, Depute Principal Psychologist, Children’s Services, City of Edinburgh Council. Click here for resources. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35OXtjO-4YE “SHINE Case Study 1: Using HWB data effectively to inform the school improvement plan” Fiona […]
In lieu of the planned May 2020 SHINE conference, we are pleased to share with you the programme for the Virtual SHINE Conference to be held on Thursday 24th September, 2020. Invitations went out today to all our member schools and Local Authority and Regional Collaborative health and wellbeing contacts. It promises to be a […]
The SHINE on-line pupil mental health survey will be available to all SHINE schools on 4th September 2020. All the relevant documents to deploy the survey have been placed in SHINE schools’ individual digital secure folders where they are accessible to the SHINE Lead in each school. Schools will be able to use the survey […]
The number of young people feeling lonely was three times higher during lockdown compared to pre-lockdown levels, a survey suggests. The findings from more than 5,000 young people across Scotland aged from 12 to 17 years who were polled from May to July this year will be used by schools to inform health and wellbeing […]