“What Works in Responding to School Non-attendance: Examples from two Scottish local authorities” Alison White (Senior Educational Psychologist EBSNA, Glasgow City Council) and Chris Atherton (Senior Educational Psychologist, East Renfrewshire Council) shared their knowledge and expertise in the 11th webinar in the SHINE series with 105 delegates from all over Scotland and Northern Ireland. Alison […]
One of the central aims of SHINE is to equip the school community with the skills needed to take a data-driven approach to school improvement planning and to be able to access health and wellbeing research. Alongside this, SHINE aims to improve the data-infrastructure available to Scottish schools. With these aims in mind,SHINE has been […]
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 […]
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 […]