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Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...research team ascertain the initial ideas from children and young people? And how were their ideas used to help create the wellbeing survey? Discussion The Children’s Society argue that in the past parents or teachers were asked to assess wellbeing on behalf of children but that ‘research has shown that children’s and parents’ responses to the same ......
Exploring children's difficulties with language and literacy
Education & Development

Exploring children's difficulties with language and literacy

...research into developmental disorders in children. Reading intervention Educational consultant Glynnis Smith describes a reading intervention programme being used in primary schools to help children who are making slow progress with literacy. Tackling dyslexia Education expert Sir Jim Rose reflects on some of the issues emerging from his report 'Identifying and Teaching...
The impact of technology on children's physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of technology on children's physical activity

...children being a relatively new product on the market (as of 2016), there is very little research examining the impact of fitness trackers on children’s physical activity. However, one study found that using wearable technology within physical education classes increased physical activity, motivation and goal-setting performance (Barbee and Bennett, 2016). Activity 6...
Are schools the best place for children to learn?
Education & Development

Are schools the best place for children to learn?

...children have found themselves having to study at home, but is this a bad thing? Professor Jonathan Rix explores...We largely just go along with what the school decides our children should learn and with how this learning should happen. However, schools often have a narrow view of learning and how it can be achieved. Under everyday pressures, and drawing on a history of...
Listening to young children: supporting transition
Education & Development

Listening to young children: supporting transition

...Children and Family Centre (Medhurst, 2014). She interviewed the boys’ mother, family worker and new nursery worker, and found that pre-transition visits to the nursery with the boys and their family worker, had been valuable opportunities to listen to their needs and interests, to build continuity and address concerns. To extend their listening further the collective...
Bodies in transition – children starting school
Education & Development

Bodies in transition – children starting school

...researching the experience of children starting school in England has highlighted ways in which this transition could go as smoothly as possible so that the impact is a positive one...[Photos from Vicky Preece] In order to understand the experience of children, my study also looks at the experiences of those around them; their families, early years educators and teaching...
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...children’s health for my doctoral research. Children's health is not as good as it could be or as good as they deserve. They have a right to good health. And it is up to the adults in their lives to do what they can to promote good health for children. This course brings together contemporary research and current knowledge about ......
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain

...children’s pain, as seen in the findings from other research (Alotaibi et al 2019). Stress could also be reduced if effective interventions were available for every individual child and being able to: ‘provide the right answers or the best answers that you can, or the best care and practice and alter things to reduce that stress’. Activity 1: Effective pain...