Concise guidance packed with ideas and information about helpful resources to enable you to make your school more peaceful - at the individual inner peace level, through developing good working relationships between everyone, at a whole school ethos level and in undertaking peace-promoting activities reaching out from the school.

Guidance written by Felicity Robinson to help schools get maximum value from their school grounds/outdoor environments for their pupils’ peaceful learning and play.

Ex Primary Head Teacher, David Holme’s ‘Pathways for Peaceful Primary Schools’ guidance booklet (25 pages A4) is a road atlas for schools on the journey of peace. For that is what Peaceful Schools are very much about – being on a journey. To be a Peaceful School is not about achieving an end product, or reaching a set of targets or criteria, it is about being on a wonderful voyage of exploration and discovery. The exploration and discovery of peace in all its glorious forms! More on peaceful schools: www.peacefulschools.org.uk

Practical guidance written by an enlightened and dedicated GP who goes into schools and who works for a CCG as a Safeguarding Lead GP. It will help you think about what to do about the stressed teachers and pupils in your school. Dr Venetia Young describes and recommends solutions-focused therapy, better working together and family tree (Genograms) work. This is positive, solutions orientated guidance for primary and secondary schools.

A very practical guide to boosting children's involvement/participation in primary schools written by David Holmes, an ex Head and County Advisor. Includes children&'s rights and &';active and democratic' classrooms.

A succinct published article which explains what a peaceful school is. The Peaceful Schools Movement encourages schools to become more peaceful. For example, by engaging creatively with their pupils to design quiet rooms and gardens, alongside undertaking activities such as the practice of mindfulness and training in conflict resolution, all within the context of a whole-school ethos of dynamic peacefulness.

Christine Easom was Head of R.E. at a Specialist Humanities College. She used P4C (Philosophy for Children) as a tool to research PEACEFUL SCHOOLS in three schools and aims to encourage teachers to use the P4C approach as a way to achieve challenging, meaningful and purposeful dialogue that can lead to real and lasting change within a school.