Have you ever stood in a toy store and wondered what to buy because your child doesn’t seem to play with the same things that other kids enjoy? Perhaps they will only play if you play with them. Some children need help to engage in play. If this sounds like your kid, keep reading, as Michelle Knuckey from Choose Play has shared with us some tips to engaging children in independent play.
Join Mercedes College for the exclusive ‘Hike for History’, part of May’s South Australian History Festival. Limited to only 50 guests, this inaugural event will see participants enjoy a pre-hike coffee in the beautiful College grounds, once part of Springfield Estate and considered for the residence of the Governor of South Australia.
The Begin Better Randomised Controlled Trial is a research study that aims to understand whether improving a woman’s health before pregnancy – by changing behaviours related to physical activity and diet – will improve health outcomes for both mum and baby. Find out more about how you can be involved and receive health recommendations and pregnancy planning advice from a midwife and 6 months of health coaching.
If you have a child who gets frustrated easily, finds it hard to follow instructions, worries a lot, finds it hard to make or manage friendships, has been through tough life situations or has other emotional, social, behaviour or life challenges, then Calm Kid Central might be able to help your family.
The Women’s and Children’s Health Network is providing families with access to specialist paediatric emergency staff from the comfort of your own home with their virtual urgent care service. The Child and Adolescent Virtual Urgent Care Service is an online video call with highly-skilled emergency doctors and nurses who can assess children with non-life threatening conditions, saving families a trip to the Emergency Department.
Echoes Montessori is an early learning and care environment embedded into the vertical village of Encore Apartments independent retirement living. In this innovative space the children and their elders not only share land, but also share their lives with one another.
Michael Parker, Author of Talk with your Kids about Things that Matter has given a handy checklist of what you can do when kids broach thorny topics you might not have been expecting! From Plato to veganism, cancel culture to consent, and politics to basic kindness, Michael takes us through topics are set to engage, inspire, and even divide.
When it comes to Education, BIN SHIFT is a fantastic tool for schools to use to facilitate sustainable waste separation and deliver the education needed to know which bin to use and why it’s so important for a sustainable future. Sustainable waste management doesn’t have to be rocket science, BIN SHIFT makes recycling and caring for our Earth fun & easy!
You might be surprised to know that there is more to school readiness than writing the alphabet and counting to 100! Early years teacher and mother of two, Lauren Hunt, gives us 5 important skills for starting school that have nothing to do with a pencil and paper!
St Peter’s Woodlands this week launched its DARE Graduate Diploma — a 12-month experiential learning program that’s completed at home as well as at school. As part of the program, the students will be tasked with developing essential life skills — including household chores and preparing a 3-course meal for their family — undertaking a year-long Passion Project on a topic or subject that inspires them, as well as completing community service.
Children’s brains are still developing, which is why they often find it difficult to manage their ‘big feelings’. Having a basic understanding of the various structures and functions within the brain can help us to understand children’s behaviours and manage those big feelings more effectively. Kerra-Lee Wescombe from Connect.Ed explains it in a simple way, using the hand model of the brain.
Welcome to the new school year. After being in somewhat of a COVID bubble over the Christmas holidays, and having online and staggered starts, returning to school has fuelled anxiety in both parents and children! Teacher and counsellor Mark Le Messurier gives us some of his top tips for busting the back-to-school anxiety.
Since its launch in February 2021, The Blackfriars podcast, The Torch has covered everything from teacher interviews to the annual swimming carnival and is used as a tool for building communication and collaboration skills, while at the same time giving students the media skills of the future.
There is an enormous body of research showing that participation in music making directly affects children’s developing nervous systems. Music is one of the few things that uses both sides of the brain and it is also a dynamic way for children to develop their language and maths skills. Elizabeth McCall from the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra talks to us about the ASO learning and community program and how we can support South Australian children from all backgrounds to participate in music making.
The early years (officially 0-8) are such an important time in a young person’s life. They have an enormous thirst for knowledge and pretty much everything is new. Madhavi Nawana Paraker from Positive Minds Australia has given us 8 simple ways to help early learners thrive, that won’t put you under more pressure than necessary.