Creative Schools Engagement : Claire Tamplin speaks to Roni Edwards

The schools engagement strand of Pamodzi Creatives aims to facilitate creative collaborations inspired by the curriculum.

 

The Creative Transitions programme of works will focus on supporting PSHE needs and raising aspirations. The programme will include two focus areas; the Mindful Movement and Who inspires you strands.

 

The Mindful Movement PSHE strand led by The Mindful Movement Coach Claire Tamplin will train a practitioner, support school staff, and young people preparing for their SATS exams.

 

This episode introduces Claire Tamplin ; a Secondary School Teacher of English with over 11 years’ experience of Portsmouth Schools, she completed her NPQSL at UCL London, specialising in emotional intelligence. She trained in Teen Yoga and Yoga and Mindfulness ; promoting well-being and mental health in education for young people. Recently endorsed by Joe Wicks, Claire Hosts a radio show and regularly delivers community sessions, school sessions and after school programmes to address the mental health crisis impacting young people across Portsmouth. Claire has proudly led sessions at the Local Young Carer Festival and several other large wellbeing events designed for our most vulnerable young people.

 

Claire has a vast experience of delivering wellbeing sessions in school settings of various key stages, she has spent many years carrying out rigorous studies and training, including from Dr Siegel, a pioneering neuropsychiatrist on the neurodevelopment of a child’s and teen’s brain. Siegel’s research evidence through his concept ‘move it or lose it’ that mindful movement is pivotal in shifting through children’s emotions and identifying their sense of ‘self’.