Alice Stopani

Wellbeing Family Worker & Psychology Student. Committed to trying to help improve the wellbeing and life experiences for young people. All views are my own.

[Alice Stopani @StopaniAlice]

Otis’s first day at @QuarryhillP to deliver the roots of empathy program! The kids were fab and so kind! Well done P4.

[Alice Stopani @StopaniAlice]

Any provisions in Aberdeen looking for some used pots for a mud kitchen or similar ? I have some free to a good home.

[Alice Stopani @StopaniAlice]

Maternity leave came early for me on Thursday, I couldn’t be more proud. It’s amazing what your body does. 👶🏽💙

[Alice Stopani @StopaniAlice]

Push and keep pushing for our young people to be everything they can be and more 📣📣

[TED Talks @TEDTalks]

"Is this job tough? You betcha. But it is not impossible. We're educators. We're born to make a difference."

Watch Rita Pierson's full TED Talk here: https://t.co/dyKXHKJv9E #TeacherAppreciationWeek

[Alice Stopani @StopaniAlice]

Personally, I think we should start by worrying about all our young people who can’t access their ‘education setting’ for a number of reasons.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

"Are you saying that if the parents don't pay, eventually they can face prosecution?" asks @KayBurley

Schools Minister @DamianHinds replies: "It's a legal requirement to have a suitable education for your child. That's not a new announcement."

https://t.co/n7DhlWDlXW

[Alice Stopani @StopaniAlice]

Education comes in all forms. Excluding children from academic education or socially educating experiences doesn’t resolve issues. How do young people learn without experiencing positive modelled behaviours? Inclusion and nurture will have much greater effects.

[Alice Stopani @StopaniAlice]

Exactly why we need to stop shaming young people who have made negative decisions. Without support many vulnerable young people won’t even realise what a positive decision may look like.

[Raymond Soltysek @rsoltysek2024]

Note: refusing to "blame" a pupil for a behavioural infraction does not mean the teacher is being blamed instead...

[Alice Stopani @StopaniAlice]

An important message when we are trying to get the best out of our young people. Being an adult does not automatically gain you respect.

[Alice Stopani @StopaniAlice]

Exactly why it’s important to be gentle and spend a little longer building relationships with our traumatised young people.

[Alice Stopani @StopaniAlice]

I have been quiet for some time on here, it’s exhausting work creating a small human. Can’t wait for Baby Stopani’s arrival 💙

[Alice Stopani @StopaniAlice]

Many more people need to hear this 📢

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

Why won’t I just stay in my lane, stop talking about our school system and get on with treating mental health problems? Because every day I hear about practices in schools which cause distress - and I’m being asked to resolve the distress as if it, not the practice, is the problem. I’m being asked to be complicit in practices which are damaging to young people’s well-being.

I’m being asked to tell young people that the problem is them, that they’re wrong to feel the way they do and with a bit of therapy they can go back to the unchanged system. I’m being asked to tell them that the system is right and they are wrong.

What practices, you ask? Putting young people into isolation for haircuts, or nose piercings. Instant detentions for minor uniform transgressions. Young people who have struggled into school being greeted with a behaviour point because they were three minutes late, and then another behaviour point for not taking their coat off immediately. Children who have had a very difficult term ending it off with being excluded from the school trip due to poor attendance. I hear these stories from multiple families, all over the UK.

There’s nothing wrong with people who feel distressed and anxious when they are in a system which creates distress and anxiety. Our children aren’t the problem, they are pointing out the problem.

[graham chatterley @grahamchatterl2]

I sometimes wonder how some educators marriages work, I mean if their partner does something wrong and then apologises

Do they accept the apology? Or is that not enough, do they need the punitive too?

Or is that just children?

[Alice Stopani @StopaniAlice]

If you are able to make a donation please drop off to any of the Fit Like Hubs at the locations below. Our young people love picking a gift for their loved ones!

[Alice Stopani @StopaniAlice]

A very important message!

[ACEs UK @UK_ACEs]

If we are working with children with #aces we need to address our issues too.

[Alice Stopani @StopaniAlice]

@MichelleInnes10 You are a star!

[Alice Stopani @StopaniAlice]

I am currently working along side a school who further developing their nurture provision. We are on the look out for board games, unfortunately the majority of current ones have missing pieces. If you will be getting rid, please let me know.

[Raymond Soltysek @rsoltysek2024]

130,000 homeless children.
2.2 million YP referred to mental health services.
36,000 in Scotland alone in care.
1 in 10 families facing food poverty.

These are the biggest issues children and teachers are grappling with...

[Alice Stopani @StopaniAlice]

A young person and I need your help! Can someone please identify what kind of bird this is ? My YP is in owe of how beautiful it is and would like to learn more.

[Alice Stopani @StopaniAlice]

@LYStopani I obviously get it from you! 😂