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12 Niche Ideas to Boost Teacher Wellbeing

Shopping sprees, burger delivery drones, teaching with LOLcats – well they certainly can't hurt, says Jonny Walker

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12 | Apply your school’s behaviour policy to yourself, including sending yourself away on Time Out


Jonny Walker is assistant headteacher at Park Primary in East London. Find him at jonnywalkerteaching.wordpress.com and follow him on Twitter at @jonnywalker_edu.


11 | Plan your curriculum around the memes that bring you most joy. Print them A1 size for lolz


12 | Apply your school’s behaviour policy to yourself, including sending yourself away on Time Out


Jonny Walker is assistant headteacher at Park Primary in East London. Find him at jonnywalkerteaching.wordpress.com and follow him on Twitter at @jonnywalker_edu.


10 | Intersperse song titles from your favourite singers into your classroom talk. ‘Well Year 3, heaven knows I’m miserable now’


11 | Plan your curriculum around the memes that bring you most joy. Print them A1 size for lolz


12 | Apply your school’s behaviour policy to yourself, including sending yourself away on Time Out


Jonny Walker is assistant headteacher at Park Primary in East London. Find him at jonnywalkerteaching.wordpress.com and follow him on Twitter at @jonnywalker_edu.


9 | Capitalise on the craze for Youtuber fandom and ‘pupil-centred learning’ by teaching from the warmth of your bed via a live video feed


10 | Intersperse song titles from your favourite singers into your classroom talk. ‘Well Year 3, heaven knows I’m miserable now’


11 | Plan your curriculum around the memes that bring you most joy. Print them A1 size for lolz


12 | Apply your school’s behaviour policy to yourself, including sending yourself away on Time Out


Jonny Walker is assistant headteacher at Park Primary in East London. Find him at jonnywalkerteaching.wordpress.com and follow him on Twitter at @jonnywalker_edu.


8 | Promote mindfulness by replacing the school development plan with a collaboratively produced ‘mandala of high ambition’


9 | Capitalise on the craze for Youtuber fandom and ‘pupil-centred learning’ by teaching from the warmth of your bed via a live video feed


10 | Intersperse song titles from your favourite singers into your classroom talk. ‘Well Year 3, heaven knows I’m miserable now’


11 | Plan your curriculum around the memes that bring you most joy. Print them A1 size for lolz


12 | Apply your school’s behaviour policy to yourself, including sending yourself away on Time Out


Jonny Walker is assistant headteacher at Park Primary in East London. Find him at jonnywalkerteaching.wordpress.com and follow him on Twitter at @jonnywalker_edu.


7 | On Tuesdays, all pupil questions are met with rhetorical questions, to cut down on marking


8 | Promote mindfulness by replacing the school development plan with a collaboratively produced ‘mandala of high ambition’


9 | Capitalise on the craze for Youtuber fandom and ‘pupil-centred learning’ by teaching from the warmth of your bed via a live video feed


10 | Intersperse song titles from your favourite singers into your classroom talk. ‘Well Year 3, heaven knows I’m miserable now’


11 | Plan your curriculum around the memes that bring you most joy. Print them A1 size for lolz


12 | Apply your school’s behaviour policy to yourself, including sending yourself away on Time Out


Jonny Walker is assistant headteacher at Park Primary in East London. Find him at jonnywalkerteaching.wordpress.com and follow him on Twitter at @jonnywalker_edu.


6 | A conveyor belt of samosas will circumnavigate the staffroom. Like the Generation Game, except every prize is a rich oily triangle


7 | On Tuesdays, all pupil questions are met with rhetorical questions, to cut down on marking


8 | Promote mindfulness by replacing the school development plan with a collaboratively produced ‘mandala of high ambition’


9 | Capitalise on the craze for Youtuber fandom and ‘pupil-centred learning’ by teaching from the warmth of your bed via a live video feed


10 | Intersperse song titles from your favourite singers into your classroom talk. ‘Well Year 3, heaven knows I’m miserable now’


11 | Plan your curriculum around the memes that bring you most joy. Print them A1 size for lolz


12 | Apply your school’s behaviour policy to yourself, including sending yourself away on Time Out


Jonny Walker is assistant headteacher at Park Primary in East London. Find him at jonnywalkerteaching.wordpress.com and follow him on Twitter at @jonnywalker_edu.


5 | Vegan patty drones – like number 1 but without the stressful guilt-inducing slaughter of our animal friends


6 | A conveyor belt of samosas will circumnavigate the staffroom. Like the Generation Game, except every prize is a rich oily triangle


7 | On Tuesdays, all pupil questions are met with rhetorical questions, to cut down on marking


8 | Promote mindfulness by replacing the school development plan with a collaboratively produced ‘mandala of high ambition’


9 | Capitalise on the craze for Youtuber fandom and ‘pupil-centred learning’ by teaching from the warmth of your bed via a live video feed


10 | Intersperse song titles from your favourite singers into your classroom talk. ‘Well Year 3, heaven knows I’m miserable now’


11 | Plan your curriculum around the memes that bring you most joy. Print them A1 size for lolz


12 | Apply your school’s behaviour policy to yourself, including sending yourself away on Time Out


Jonny Walker is assistant headteacher at Park Primary in East London. Find him at jonnywalkerteaching.wordpress.com and follow him on Twitter at @jonnywalker_edu.


4 | Each term, one lucky colleague gets taken on a shopping spree by their appreciative line manager


5 | Vegan patty drones – like number 1 but without the stressful guilt-inducing slaughter of our animal friends


6 | A conveyor belt of samosas will circumnavigate the staffroom. Like the Generation Game, except every prize is a rich oily triangle


7 | On Tuesdays, all pupil questions are met with rhetorical questions, to cut down on marking


8 | Promote mindfulness by replacing the school development plan with a collaboratively produced ‘mandala of high ambition’


9 | Capitalise on the craze for Youtuber fandom and ‘pupil-centred learning’ by teaching from the warmth of your bed via a live video feed


10 | Intersperse song titles from your favourite singers into your classroom talk. ‘Well Year 3, heaven knows I’m miserable now’


11 | Plan your curriculum around the memes that bring you most joy. Print them A1 size for lolz


12 | Apply your school’s behaviour policy to yourself, including sending yourself away on Time Out


Jonny Walker is assistant headteacher at Park Primary in East London. Find him at jonnywalkerteaching.wordpress.com and follow him on Twitter at @jonnywalker_edu.


3 | Teachers gamble their cover time, Russian roulette style. Names are put in a hat and the first drawn out has to cover the second one for an extra slot


4 | Each term, one lucky colleague gets taken on a shopping spree by their appreciative line manager


5 | Vegan patty drones – like number 1 but without the stressful guilt-inducing slaughter of our animal friends


6 | A conveyor belt of samosas will circumnavigate the staffroom. Like the Generation Game, except every prize is a rich oily triangle


7 | On Tuesdays, all pupil questions are met with rhetorical questions, to cut down on marking


8 | Promote mindfulness by replacing the school development plan with a collaboratively produced ‘mandala of high ambition’


9 | Capitalise on the craze for Youtuber fandom and ‘pupil-centred learning’ by teaching from the warmth of your bed via a live video feed


10 | Intersperse song titles from your favourite singers into your classroom talk. ‘Well Year 3, heaven knows I’m miserable now’


11 | Plan your curriculum around the memes that bring you most joy. Print them A1 size for lolz


12 | Apply your school’s behaviour policy to yourself, including sending yourself away on Time Out


Jonny Walker is assistant headteacher at Park Primary in East London. Find him at jonnywalkerteaching.wordpress.com and follow him on Twitter at @jonnywalker_edu.


2 | Promote cross-curricular wellbeing by approaching difficult concepts through the medium of interpretive dance


3 | Teachers gamble their cover time, Russian roulette style. Names are put in a hat and the first drawn out has to cover the second one for an extra slot


4 | Each term, one lucky colleague gets taken on a shopping spree by their appreciative line manager


5 | Vegan patty drones – like number 1 but without the stressful guilt-inducing slaughter of our animal friends


6 | A conveyor belt of samosas will circumnavigate the staffroom. Like the Generation Game, except every prize is a rich oily triangle


7 | On Tuesdays, all pupil questions are met with rhetorical questions, to cut down on marking


8 | Promote mindfulness by replacing the school development plan with a collaboratively produced ‘mandala of high ambition’


9 | Capitalise on the craze for Youtuber fandom and ‘pupil-centred learning’ by teaching from the warmth of your bed via a live video feed


10 | Intersperse song titles from your favourite singers into your classroom talk. ‘Well Year 3, heaven knows I’m miserable now’


11 | Plan your curriculum around the memes that bring you most joy. Print them A1 size for lolz


12 | Apply your school’s behaviour policy to yourself, including sending yourself away on Time Out


Jonny Walker is assistant headteacher at Park Primary in East London. Find him at jonnywalkerteaching.wordpress.com and follow him on Twitter at @jonnywalker_edu.

1 | SLT uses drones to deliver the burger of choice to teachers, as a show of remote-controlled gratitude


2 | Promote cross-curricular wellbeing by approaching difficult concepts through the medium of interpretive dance


3 | Teachers gamble their cover time, Russian roulette style. Names are put in a hat and the first drawn out has to cover the second one for an extra slot


4 | Each term, one lucky colleague gets taken on a shopping spree by their appreciative line manager


5 | Vegan patty drones – like number 1 but without the stressful guilt-inducing slaughter of our animal friends


6 | A conveyor belt of samosas will circumnavigate the staffroom. Like the Generation Game, except every prize is a rich oily triangle


7 | On Tuesdays, all pupil questions are met with rhetorical questions, to cut down on marking


8 | Promote mindfulness by replacing the school development plan with a collaboratively produced ‘mandala of high ambition’


9 | Capitalise on the craze for Youtuber fandom and ‘pupil-centred learning’ by teaching from the warmth of your bed via a live video feed


10 | Intersperse song titles from your favourite singers into your classroom talk. ‘Well Year 3, heaven knows I’m miserable now’


11 | Plan your curriculum around the memes that bring you most joy. Print them A1 size for lolz


12 | Apply your school’s behaviour policy to yourself, including sending yourself away on Time Out


Jonny Walker is assistant headteacher at Park Primary in East London. Find him at jonnywalkerteaching.wordpress.com and follow him on Twitter at @jonnywalker_edu.

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