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Are you a secret hoarder?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are you a secret hoarder?

...families and friends. Many of us have wardrobes full of clothes we haven't worn for years, books we rarely read and belongings from our and our children's childhoods we cannot part with. When these hoards start to get out of control - for example, when we can no longer fit into new clothes into our wardrobe, most people will have a clear out. A hoarder, however, will...
The Financial Five a Day Podcast Series
Money & Business

The Financial Five a Day Podcast Series

...family and friends. Practical tips include the paradoxical guidance that ‘budgets make you free’, to pay yourself first and to automate your saving and investments. Transcript Find out more about Emmanuel here. [Pushpa headshot]Podcast 6: Pushpa Wood Pocket money in adult life Pushpa is a university teacher, researcher, and practitioner around money education. She...
Emotion in motion: Supporting children’s understanding of different emotions through dance
Education & Development

Emotion in motion: Supporting children’s understanding of different emotions through dance

...Families. The video in this article shows a brief activity to illustrate how movement can be used to embody learning. Critically, it’s important to emphasise with the Dancemotion approach as a whole, it is the teachers’ and children’s interest and engagement with the content that is far more important than their experience or confidence in dance. Why we’re doing...
Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket

...family orientated audience. However, because of the impact of the Coronavirus outbreak, the tournament has now been postponed until 2021. One of the features of The Hundred is its novel approach to gender equity. Billed as both a men’s and women’s tournament, each of the 8 city-based clubs have a male and a female team. The prize money on offer is the same for both...
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...history may inform our work, but the poem transforms or exchanges the one sort of truth – biographical truth – for another: poetic truth. A poem is more than a simple expression of feelings, more than what ‘really’ happened...What is poetry?: 3 What is poetry? - We can possibly best define what poetry is by saying what it isn’t. For one thing, poetry, unlike...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Simple coding
Digital & Computing

Simple coding

...family by clicking on the down arrow next to ‘Share’. If, whilst practicing, you do any mistakes, you can always undo all your changes. Click on the 3 lines icon in the top left corner. A menu appears. Click on ‘Reset’ and confirm you want to put back the code as it was, before you changed the numbers. All done? Good. In the next section we will start learning to...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...history. In the process, they have encountered other people from different cultures who speak different languages. In order to work with them, to trade with them and, in some cases, to govern them, a language was needed that both sides could communicate in. From repeated encounters between peoples, new forms of language emerged. This course looks at the languages which...
Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...family home that they designed in 1949 also become an icon of ‘mid-century’ design. Many of the Eames’ furniture designs remain in production today. These designs are also widely imitated, a perhaps unwelcome, yet significant, indication of their enduring quality and popularity. Figure 3 Ray and Charles Eames Figure 4 A classic Eames design – the 670 lounge chair...