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Sensory learning helps children eat more healthily

Researchers have found that sensory-based education in nursery children promotes healthier eating habits.

Nutrition, Education
News

Sex education overhaul

Sex education is being reformed as part of the development of a new curriculum due to be rolled out across schools and settings in Wales in 2022.

Sexual health, Education
News

Curious children do better in maths and reading

Curious children are better able to grasp basic maths and reading, a study has suggested.

Behaviour, Education
Children Mental Health News

Wales: make children’s mental health a national priority, says assembly committee

Schools need preventative measures to support children’s mental health, a new report from the Welsh Assembly has found.

Education, Mental Health
Features

Road safety: treading carefully

With more cars on the road, and at higher speeds, there is an increase in fatal accidents. Journalist Caroline Roberts explores how we can keep each other safe.

Education
Features

Thank you, Ros!

Ros Godson, lead professional officer at Unite, retires at the end of 2017 after a 40-year career
in nursing. Her colleagues share their thoughts…

Health and wellbeing, Education
Features

More than a game

Young children aren’t getting enough playtime outside, but why is that a problem, and how can you help to change the situation? Journalist John Windell reports.

Health and wellbeing, Education
Back to school Features

Beating the back-to-school blues

The arrival of the new school year can be a difficult time for children, reports Phil Harris.

Education, Mental Health
In an age of voice activation and touchscreen technology, has the humble book had its day? Features

Doing it by the book

In an age of voice activation and touchscreen technology, has the humble book had its day? We look at why reading is still so crucial – and how community practitioners can help families get children into books.

Health and wellbeing, Education
Drawings of people identify gifted children News

Drawings of people identify gifted children

A study of portraits drawn by children finds details in a person’s appearance, like freckles, are included only by the ‘highly gifted’.

Education
NI children’s commissioner warns against ‘unacceptable’ isolation discipline in schools News

NI children’s commissioner warns against ‘unacceptable’ isolation discipline in schools

The children’s commissioner has spoken out against the practice of using ‘isolation rooms’ to discipline children in schools.

Education
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