Books can take us to another land. They have the potential to evoke an imagination that brings the unreal to life and can captivate the hearts and minds of even the most uninterested readers. Great storytellers have been sharing their surreal worlds with young minds for centuries. And[…]

The Times and the NSPCC joined forces to release a video to help parents talk to their children about terrorism.  This was prompted by over 370 young people contacting Childline to discuss their concerns following the Paris attacks in November 2015. You can see the video at: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/nspcc/[…]

Maths is still considered to be one of the most challenging subjects (and yet most important), taught in schools today. What makes maths so difficult to grasp? Part of the problem is hereditary and I don’t mean in the genetic sense. Many young people have inherited their parents[…]

Some children do not grow up with the stability of family life. Although orphanages no longer exist in the UK in the way they used to (children would now tend to be fostered, adopted or placed in children’s homes) there are still orphanages elsewhere in the world. In[…]

The 2012/13 NCMP (National Child Measurements Programme) report shows obesity rates in Year 6 (pupils aged 10-11 years) to be 20.4% for boys and 17.4% for girls. As the western world continues to expand its waistline, the victims of obesity appear to be growing younger with each passing[…]

Nearly a quarter of a million children in England and Wales are caring for a relative, new statistics show. Figures from the ONS suggest 244,000 people under 19 are carers, of which about 23,000 are under nine years old. Children who are carers are more likely to develop[…]

About 45,000 children talked to Childline last year about bullying. However many children do not report the bullying to an adult. One of the indicators of a child being bullied, is that they become bullies themselves. This does not happen to every child who is bullied, but for[…]

Approximately 10% percent of the population is thought to be dyslexic, of which of those are 4% severely affected. It is estimated that there are about 375,000 pupils in the UK with dyslexia and a total of some two million people who are severely affected. However, whilst there[…]

We take it for granted that most children will have the necessary skills to develop their literacy skills. Some however do not, perhaps because there is a different way in which they think – a way that doesn’t fit in with conventional teaching methods. For others however, literacy[…]