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Pooky’s Weekly Round-Up: Issue 118

Transitions, interviews, and the power of playful connection

Sep 14 • 

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Pooky’s Weekly Round-Up: Issue 117

Challenging behaviour, co-regulation strategies, and salty shoes

Sep 8 • 

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August 2025

Pooky’s Weekly Round-Up: Issue 116

Starting gently: anxious kids, safe schools, and big skies

Aug 31 • 

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July 2025

Pooky’s Weekly Round-Up: Issue 115

Reframing, reconnecting, and riding into the sea

Jul 13 • 

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Pooky’s Weekly Round-Up: Issue 114

School-based anxiety, everyday inclusion, and windswept joy

Jul 6 • 

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June 2025

Pooky’s Weekly Round-Up: Issue 113

Supporting Year 7 nerves, decoding mutism, and leading differently

Jun 29 • 

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Pooky’s Weekly Round-Up: Issue 112

Confidence boosts, safe spaces, and the fall of the Premier Inn mug

Jun 22 • 

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Pooky’s Weekly Round-Up: Issue 111

Anxiety in class, undercover lattes, and neurodivergent strengths...

Jun 15 • 

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Pooky’s Weekly Round-Up: Issue 110

A new course, a checklist win, and a pig called Colin

Jun 8 • 

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Pooky’s Weekly Round-Up: Issue 109

Staff care, student voice, and a signal box smile

Jun 1 • 

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May 2025

Rest, bloopers, and something new on the way…

Happy half term from Pooky x

May 25 • 

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Pooky’s Weekly Round-Up: Issue 108

Compassionate teaching, inclusive tools, and a little bit of archery

May 18 • 

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