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LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT FOR SCHOOLS

Laughology is an approach to learning, development and thinking. It uses humour and happiness as a foundation for fun, inspirational inset days, conference keynotes, happy school programmes and teacher and pupil workshops. 

We’re experts at delivering fun, engaging training for primary and secondary schools, and the wider learning community.

Our school facilitators are learning and development gurus from the world of education, entertainment, and commerce.

PUPIL WORKSHOP'S

Laughology pupil workshops are fun and engaging. They provide students with the tools to develop emotional intelligence, happiness, confidence and self-belief.
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Becoming Brave and Great

Exploring what brave and great actually mean and how to ‘become’ brave and great. Each child explores in a fun and interactive way...

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Flip It! Keep Calm and Carry On

This primary school workshop uses the FLIP model to show primary school children, in yr6, how they can boost their confidence and self-belief and feel ready to try their best for their yr6 SATs.

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Improvisation and Stand-Up Comedy

Inspire your students to find their voices, become creative thinkers and improve their communication and writing skills. Our comedy and improvisation workshops.

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Happy Children

This introductory workshop will encourage children to think and feel better about life and make better choices. It gives them skills to develop their emotional intelligence and become happier children...

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P4C - Philosophy for Children

This session focuses on thinking skills and uses P4C (philosophy for children) inquiry techniques to enable students to think deeply about school, resilience, aspirations and goals...

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Getting Ready for SATs

Laughology Sats workshops for teachers and students, are delivered in schools throughout the UK. Our workshops use the science of happiness to help KS1 and KS2 primary school students cope with exam stress...

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Growth Mindset for an Amazing Brain

Many schools and educators are now using the growth mindset theory to improve the performance of pupils and help them achieve their full potential...

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TEACHER INSET DAY WORKSHOPS

Laughology INSET day training sessions will provide you with a blend of theory and practical skills, to take back to the classroom and use every day for increasing engagement, learning and motivation.

Each of the inset day workshops below can be structured into two-hour, half or full day training sessions, which can include themes and topics which are important to your school.

Bringing Out the Best in Every Child

Understanding how to help children believe in themselves as well as the people around them…

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Leading an Excellent School

Laughology can help you enhance the range of leadership skills needed to help you and your school achieve excellence…

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Wellbeing in Schools - Inset Day Workshop

This teacher inset day workshop will offer guidance and practical tools for improving emotional wellbeing in schools...

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Raising Standards

This teacher inset day workshop will be a mix of theory and practical skills to take back to the classroom and…

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Flip for Teachers

Learning how to apply Laughology's cognitive techniques for developing a positive psychology toolkit...

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Creating a Happy Centred School

This teacher inset day workshop will be a mix of theory and practical skills to take back to the classroom…

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Creating Mindfulness in the Classroom

The positive effects of mindfulness for learning when implemented over a period of time have been seen to...

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Teacher Twilight Sessions

If you would like a booster session for your team to help with resilience, feeling good, fun techniques for the classroom or a team session we can deliver…

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SCHOOL CONFERENCE KEYNOTES

We can work with any size audience and will guarantee laughter as part of your conference, dinner speech or motivational session.
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Creating a Happy-Centred School

Schools that have used emotional intelligence ‘toolkits’ have seen a number of benefits...

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Raising Targets - The Science of Laughter, Humour and Happiness for Raising Targets

Great teachers know how to make learning fun. Enjoying learning is the key to information sticking and ensuring it makes sense…

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The Importance of Play for Brain Development

Play is essential to development because it contributes to the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional well-being of children...

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Memory Techniques for the Classroom - The Amazing Brain

Empowering students to take responsibility for their own learning in a fun and creative way increases…

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Leading an Excellent School

The evolving role of headship means the work of head teachers is ever expanding and demanding. Resilience, creativity and flexible thinking are…

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Bringing out the Best in Every Child

The current structure of the educational system values academic intelligence which does not mean that...

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PSHE FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS

Laughology Happy-Centred Schools programme is an evidence-based ‘added extra’ to learning that will enhance the emotional wellbeing of your school
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Happy-Centred Schools Programme

The Happy-Centred School programme is a scientifically-researched, evidence-based primary PSHE programme...

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Schools learning and development

Schools learning and development

Laughology is an approach to learning, development and thinking that uses humour and happiness as a foundation. It encourages learning which is safe, fun and engaging for head teachers, teachers, teaching assistants, pupils and parents.

Fun and engaging pupil workshops which develop emotional intelligence, happiness, confidence and self-belief...

Inspirational INSET day training sessions that provide you with a blend of theory and practical skills, to use in the classroom.

Conference keynote talks on topics which support the theme of your conference...

Laughology Happy-Centred Schools programme is an evidence-based ‘added extra’ to learning that will enhance the emotional wellbeing of your school

School and educational organisations we work with:

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Pupil workshop's

INSPIRING AND DYNAMIC SCHOOL WORKSHOPS FOR PUPILS

Laughology pupil workshops are fun and engaging. They provide students with the tools to develop emotional intelligence, happiness, confidence and self-belief.

BECOMING BRAVE AND GREAT

Exploring what brave and great actually mean and how to ‘become’ brave and great. 
Each child explores in a fun and interactive way...

More about becoming brave and great...

FLIP IT! KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON

This primary school workshop uses the FLIP model to show primary school children, in yr6, how they can boost their confidence and self-belief and feel ready to try their best for their yr6 SATs.

More about FLIP it...

IMPROVISATION AND STAND-UP COMEDY

Inspire your students to find their voices, become creative thinkers and improve their communication and writing skills. Our comedy and improvisation workshops...

More about stand-up..

HAPPY CHILDREN

This introductory workshop will encourage children to think and feel better about life and make better choices. It gives them skills to develop their emotional intelligence and become happier children...

More about happy children...

P4C - PHILOSOPHY FOR CHILDREN

This session focuses on thinking skills and uses P4C (philosophy for children) inquiry techniques to enable students to think deeply about school, resilience, aspirations and goals...

More about P4C...

GETTING READY FOR SATs

Laughology Sats workshops for teachers and students, are delivered in schools throughout the UK. Our workshops use the science of happiness to help KS1 and KS2 primary school students cope with exam stress...

More about getting ready for SATs

GROWTH MINDSET FOR AN AMAZING BRAIN

Many schools and educators are now using the growth mindset theory to improve the performance of pupils and help them achieve their full potential.

More about growth mindset...

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School conference keynotes

SCHOOLS

CONFERENCE KEYNOTES

We can work with any size audience and will guarantee laughter as part of your conference, dinner speech or motivational session.

We can deliver a conference address on a topic suggested below and we can ensure it matches to the theme of your conference, just let us know what you would like us to deliver and we will work around it.

All sessions below are suitable for primary and secondary schools. We will speak with you about your conference or school’s needs, and we will design the themes or sessions around your requirements. We also offer conference packages which can consist of a variety of workshops throughout your event or a whole conference address plus break-out sessions. Do speak to us about what you want we can help with the set-up design and delivery to make your conference unique, fun and memorable. Our speakers not only have a background in comedy, they also understand the psychology of behaviour and motivation; we can work with any size audience and will guarantee laughter as part of your conference, dinner speech or motivational session. We will work with you to design a bespoke presentation around any topic or aim, but just to give you a starting point here are some of our hot topics.

Schools that have used emotional intelligence ‘toolkits’ have seen a number of benefits...

Great teachers know how to make learning fun. Enjoying learning is the key to information sticking and ensuring it makes sense…

Play is essential to development because it contributes to the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional well-being of children...

Empowering students to take responsibility for their own learning in a fun and creative way increases…

The evolving role of headship means the work of head teachers is ever expanding and demanding. Resilience, creativity and flexible thinking are…

The current structure of the educational system values academic intelligence which does not mean that...

Continue reading

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Teacher inset day workshops

TEACHER INSET DAY WORKSHOPS

Laughology INSET day training sessions will provide you with a blend of theory and practical skills, to take back to the classroom and use every day for increasing engagement, learning and motivation. Laughology INSET DAYS come with fun as standard.

BRINGING OUT THE BEST IN EVERY CHILD

Understanding how to help children believe in themselves as well as the people around them…

More about bringing out..

LEADING AN EXCELLENT SCHOOL

Laughology can help you enhance the range of leadership skills needed to help you and your school achieve excellence…

More about leading an excellent school...

WELLBEING IN SCHOOLS

This teacher inset day workshop will offer guidance and practical tools for improving emotional wellbeing in schools.

More about emotional wellbeing in schools...

RAISING STANDARDS

This teacher inset day workshop will be a mix of theory and practical skills to take back to the classroom and…

More about raising standards...

FLIP FOR TEACHERS

Learning how to apply Laughology's cognitive techniques for developing a positive psychology toolkit

More FLIP for teachers

CREATING A HAPPY CENTRED SCHOOL

This teacher inset day workshop will be a mix of theory and practical skills to take back to the classroom…

More about happy centred...

CREATING MINDFULNESS IN THE CLASSROOM

The positive effects of mindfulness for learning when implemented over a period of time have been seen to

More about mindfulness...

TEACHER TWILIGHT SESSIONS

If you would like a booster session for your team to help with resilience, feeling good, fun techniques for the classroom or a team session we can deliver…

More about teacher twilight...

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School workshops and inset days

Laughology Happy-Centred schools is an unique and engaging approach to learning that has been delivered to primary schools throughout the UK.

It is a model of development and thinking that uses humour and happiness as a foundation. It encourages learning which is safe, fun and engaging for head teachers, teachers, teaching assistants, pupils and parents.

Student workshop's

Laughology student workshops are fun and engaging. They provide students with the tools to develop emotional intelligence, happiness, confidence and self-belief.

Laughology can help you and your primary school to:

  • Improve sats results and ofsted outcomes
  • Stress-proof staff and students
  • Embed resilience and happiness in every classroom
  • Increase motivation and confidence in students
  • Enhance engagement & creative teaching techniques
  • Achieve better behaviour and attendance
  • Understand how to improve learning and retention with memory & revision skills
  • Create a happy-centred school 

Laughology works with primary and secondary schools delivering workshops, inset day sessions and bespoke programmes with all school staff and pupils. Every child matters and every child can laugh.

Increased resilience and positivity in primary schools

Our programmes boost communication skills, develop emotional intelligence, increase resilience and improve SATs results. We can deliver tailored or off-the-shelf workshops, and all our programmes are based on academic studies and use proven psychological techniques to encourage positivity in learning.

Skills for teachers and students

The Laughology education team can help enhance aspirations, self-esteem and positive coping skills for young people and adults. We give teachers and young people the skills to stay positive, motivated and to believe in their abilities. Our courses are fun, refreshing and different and provide sustainable tools which staff teams, children and young people can use even after their courses has finished

Teacher workshops & inset days

Each of these workshops below can be delivered as a two-hour workshop session. For a half-day inset, we would recommend choosing two of the workshops below and for a full day we would recommend choosing three.

Our programmes are aligned to current educational policy, such as:

Laughology recognises the importance of being able to equip young people and children with the right skills for the modern world. Our programmes aim to unlock potential, boost communication skills, and develop emotional intelligence and resilience whilst improving results.

We also understand the importance of resilience and happiness for teaching teams and school support teams and know the well-being of all staff is paramount to getting the results you want.

Read the happy-centred school case study for St Matthew’s Primary School in Luton

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