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Do We Need To Move Children’s Mental Health And Wellbeing Centre Stage With Its Own Curriculum? One now exists!

After attending yet another mental health course which raised awareness of the issues faced in schools but offered little in the way of solutions, Paula Talman decided to do something about it. So she set up the iSpace Wellbeing Curriculum

14 Sep
Paula Talman

Amani’s Story: Supporting Children of Divorcing Parents

When shocking events in a child’s life derail learning, staff can do so much to alleviate the suffering, advises Dr. Margot Sunderland in her fifth guidance for teachers.

28 Aug 2020
24mins
Margot Sunderland

Rescuing A Generation At Risk From Covid and Exclusions

A project at Lyng School In Coventry, which has 50 per cent of its children on free school meals, has shown remarkable success in keeping all its children engaged during the lockdown. Sonia Blandford describes the project and argues that it should be rolled out across the country.

11 Aug 2020
24mins
Sonia Blandford

Parental Engagement Is Good. But What Does It Really Mean?

Campaigning broadly for parental engagement often doesn’t reach the parents you most want to. For these parents, engagement has to be case specific, and involve partnership working at home and at school, explains Maureen Hunt

31 Jul 2020
24mins
Maureen Hunt

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Do We Need To Move Children’s Mental Health And Wellbeing Centre Stage With Its Own Curriculum? One now exists!

After attending yet another mental health course which raised awareness of the issues faced in schools but offered little in the way of solutions, Paula Talman decided to do something about it. So she set up the iSpace Wellbeing Curriculum

14 Sep

Amani’s Story: Supporting Children of Divorcing Parents

When shocking events in a child’s life derail learning, staff can do so much to alleviate the suffering, advises Dr. Margot Sunderland in her fifth guidance for teachers.

28 Aug

Rescuing A Generation At Risk From Covid and Exclusions

A project at Lyng School In Coventry, which has 50 per cent of its children on free school meals, has shown remarkable success in keeping all its children engaged during the lockdown. Sonia Blandford describes the project and argues that it should be rolled out across the country.

11 Aug

Parental Engagement Is Good. But What Does It Really Mean?

Campaigning broadly for parental engagement often doesn’t reach the parents you most want to. For these parents, engagement has to be case specific, and involve partnership working at home and at school, explains Maureen Hunt

31 Jul

Jessica’s Story: Responding To Children Who Have Suffered Traumatic Loss

A child’s behaviour can spiral out of control in the aftermath of losing a loved relative or parents separating. Putting these children into detention or suspending them, is the opposite of how a school should respond. Dr Margot Sunderland describes what happened to Jessica

31 Jul

Sebbie’s Story – Managing The Behaviour Of Traumatised Children

In the third guidance in her series of dealing with children with trauma related issues , Dr Margot Sunderland offers practical guidance for non-specialist teachers and school staff on how to respond to children in distress

15 Jun

Getting the ICT Basics Right Drives Creativity

Are you making the most of your technology? Peter Boucher explores.

22 Apr

Can The 2014 Vision of the Children and Families Bill Ever Be Realised?

James Bowen analyses what went wrong with one of the most ambitious pieces of legislation for children with special needs in a quarter of a century.

22 Apr

STEM: How to Bridge the Attainment Gap for Disadvantaged Pupils

Panagiota Letsou describes a unique project to engage children from disadvantaged communities in science and technology.

22 Apr

The Latest Every Child Journal Is Here

Every Child Journal Issue 8.1 is ready to download.

21 Apr

Sarah’s Story: Helping Children And Teenagers Who Live With Anxiety

In the first of her new Beyond the Classroom series, Dr Margot Sunderland offers practical guidance for non-specialist teachers and school staff responding to children in distress who ‘behave their trauma’. In this first guidance we meet ‘Sarah’, who struggles with anxiety and Dr Sunderland explores the need to view children’s behaviour within the context of their home lives.

14 Apr

Extending Learning with Games, Skills and Communication

Paddy McCaffrey, Achievement for All Coach, provides some strategies for making more of the home environment

7 Apr

What is Cultural Capital in The Early Years?

It’s critical, but hard to pin down. Maureen Hunt, Head of Early Years at Achievement for All explains what it is, why it's so important and some strategies to endow children with it.

25 Mar

Language Is Critical To Deep Understanding in Maths

A Mathematics Mastery approach can have a profound impact on language and mathematical thinking for children, especially those with special educational needs, explains Helen Drury

24 Mar

Leveraging the Power of Educational Psychologists

Educational psychologists can find solutions for children who are experiencing emotional and behavioural difficulties. Jo Suchy and Kirsty Newbury look at ways schools can benefit from consultations.

28 Feb

Beyond the attainment gap: widening opportunities to develop social and emotional skills

Making eye contact, projecting confidence and managing emotions are skills that are important for success in all areas of life, and are crucial for social mobility. Emma Sutherland shows how a new initiative by Nesta is supporting the development of these skills for students who may not otherwise have the opportunity to develop them.

28 Feb

Is Your Peer Mentoring Programme Having a Negative Impact?

Without a proper framework in place, many peer mentoring programmes are at risk of retraumatising students or reinforcing bullying and behaviours which the programme is trying to prevent. Kim Reuter looks at some of the most important factors for implementing effective, high-quality peer mentoring.

28 Feb

‘Playing it Safe’ is the Wrong Approach to the New RSE Curriculum

With the increasing complexity of issues surrounding gender, sexuality, technology and wellbeing, RSE is becoming more necessary…and more complicated. The new DfE guidance is a step in the right direction, but Sarah Culvert thinks that teachers should be prepared to go beyond the mandatory RSE requirements in order to meet the needs of children today.

28 Feb

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