Lesson Plan 2 – The Spirit Of Generosity Christmas is a season that brings people together. It’s a celebration of love, friendship and family. It is a time to think about others and others and to develop a spirit of generosity. Acts of generosity not only make others feel good, but it can make you …
Free Lesson Plan #1 – Sleep Getting quality sleep in the modern era can be a challenge for many students. Using technology before bed, overthinking and worrying, eating too late, not getting enough exercise all can contribute to a poor night of sleep. A lack of sleep can affect our health, our mood, how we …
Lose the mask this Halloween With Halloween coming this weekend, it felt like a good time to discuss the importance of being yourself. Halloween is fun, we dress up in costumes and masks and pretend to be someone or something we are not. This tradition is thought to date way back almost 2000 years ago …
Digital Wellbeing should be taught in schools Recent surveys report that nine out of ten teenagers between 13-17 are active on social media. To parents of teenagers and secondary school teachers across Ireland this figure will probably come as no surprise. Equipped with mobile phones, computers, tablets, and online video games, teenagers are more interconnected …
My Transition Year Experience I was recently made aware of an ongoing debate surrounding transition year in schools across Ireland. There seems to be an argument in favour of possibly altering transition year in favour of a more academic program or even scrapping the year altogether in some schools which is disappointing to say the …
Take Better Care of Your Sleep. Whether you’re young or old, working, studying, in college, working in the home, looking after children, whatever your profession or stage in life, sleep is important. At the moment, we’re all spending much more time at home, many of us are working from home and we’re adapting and getting …