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Using measurement tools to understand pupils’ mental health needs: a guide for schools and colleges

01/02/2024 by Jean Gross

This is a useful guide from the Anna Freud Centre on how to measure wellbeing. It signposts available tools, and prompts thinking about what we want to measure, and why.

Belonging Scale

01/02/2024 by Jean Gross

This tool can be used with indovidual children to assess how far they feel they belong in their school, and feel connected to it.

Children's Hope Scale

10/04/2023 by Jean Gross

This is a quick, 6-item self-report assessment tool that measures children's belief they can reach their goals. It can be used with children aged 6-16.

Empathy questionnaire

10/04/2023 by Jean Gross

This is a short questionnaire for primary and secondary pupils, that yields an empathy score.

Ten low-cost ideas for creating a therapeutic classroom

14/07/2022 by Jean Gross

Find out how pupils feel about school

14/11/2021 by Jean Gross

This brilliant set of resources from Young Minds gives you all you need to work with a focus group of pupils to explore pupil perceptions of school climate.

Left out – a resource to give to parents

05/05/2019 by Jean Gross

Assessing wellbeing

03/05/2019 by Jean Gross

We came across this Happiness Line Measure (HLM) and really liked it.

It’s easy to use and provides rich quantitative and qualitative information from three marks made on the same pencil-drawn line. Can be used with individuals or groups/classes.

A review of social and emotional learning programmes for pre-school and early years

03/01/2019 by Jean Gross

Belonging scale

15/08/2017 by Jean Gross

Evaluating and monitoring wellbeing

28/12/2016 by Jean Gross

Research paper on what matters in implementing SEL programmes in schools

19/12/2016 by Jean Gross

Bradford's assessment tools

15/01/2016 by Anonymous

SEAL skills assessment scale

15/01/2016 by Julie Casey

How to make kids kinder

14/10/2014 by Jean Gross

How to reach goals/keep resolutions

02/01/2014 by Jean Gross

Making friends with failure

27/12/2013 by Anonymous

SEAL/SEL changes the brain

09/06/2013 by Jean Gross

Table 1 for If ... Kipling, character and schools

24/05/2013 by Jean Gross

If … Kipling, character and schools

24/05/2013 by Jean Gross