Pastoral Care
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Promoting and Optimising Child Wellbeing
Child wellbeing and wellness are not necessarily the same thing, but no one would deny they are usually...
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The Benefits of Childhood Friendships and How to Support Them
The impulse to make friends is innate in most children, and left to their own devices they will...
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Activities to Encourage Children to Share
It’s understandable that most young children find sharing extremely difficult; at this stage they have little empathy for...
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Helping Children to Manage Conflict
Conflict happens. And the only thing that really prepares a young child for conflict is the experience of...
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Empathy in the Early Years
‘Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with...
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How to Help Young Children Settle Into a New Nursery
Help Young Children Settle Into a New Nursery The first few weeks at a new nursery can be...
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How to Help Children Concentrate
Concentration is a voluntary act which takes effort on the part of the child. Many children get distracted...
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How to Nurture Emotional Literacy in Early Years
As well as receiving a good academic education, children should also expect to receive the right kind of...
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How to Encourage Emotional Development
If we consider the emotional development of a child, by teaching them words for anger, fear, sadness, joy,...
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Why Do Well-Being and Relaxation Go Hand in Hand?
Many current teaching methods emphasise the importance of well-being and relaxation for the maturation of the brain, enabling...
