Posts tagged childhood development
Webinar: Persona Education - Life Skills & Wellbeing CoP Webinar with Lucy Stephens
Webinar: Persona Education - Life Skills & Wellbeing CoP Webinar with Lucy Stephens

Watch this webinar with our Founder/Director Lucy Stephens, where she discusses how we’re ‘doing education differently’ at our school.

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Webinar: Young people's behaviour and mental health - two sides of the same coin?
Webinar: Young people's behaviour and mental health - two sides of the same coin?

Watch our free webinar discussing the link between young people’s mental health and behaviour, hearing from experts in the field and young people and their parents.

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Losing Control 'Open House' featuring The New School Founder Lucy Stephens
Losing Control 'Open House' featuring The New School Founder Lucy Stephens

Lucy Stephens, Founder of The New School, will feature in the September edition of ‘Open House’ by peer-led network Losing Control. The session will focus on the topic of co-production and Lucy will discuss The New School’s democratic approach. Session runs from 3pm-5pm on 29th September 2020.

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'Fear of failure' giving UK children lowest happiness levels in Europe
'Fear of failure' giving UK children lowest happiness levels in Europe

Children in the UK have the lowest levels of life satisfaction across Europe, with “a particularly British fear of failure” partly to blame, according to a major report into childhood happiness.

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Third of youth clubs in London fear closure by end of year
Third of youth clubs in London fear closure by end of year

If youth services weren’t in a state of emergency before (debatable) they are now. This is incredibly short-sighted, and concerning for young people.

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Why Children Must Bicker as They Play
Why Children Must Bicker as They Play

As Teacher Tom writes in Medium Magazine, this is the gold standard of a play-based curriculum: creative, cooperative play. Reflecting on his own teaching experience he says, “As a teacher in a school that engages in no direct instruction, but rather bases its curriculum on the evidence of how children learn best, which is through their own self-directed play,”

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