The government has been called upon in a report released by the outgoing Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davis to adopt her recommended policy changes designed to directly tackle childhood obesity. The report entitled “Time to Solve Childhood Obesity” asks politicians and policy makers to focus the lasers of their policy making to etch out […]
The 10th October is World Mental Health day. Schools and organisations through the UK will be donning yellow and running in-house initiatives to stimulate the conversation about mental health problems amongst young people and workers across the UK. Most of us know by now that Mental health issues should no longer be stigmatised and creating […]
The sedentary lifestyle that has become so commonplace amongst young people is responsible to numerous illnesses such as diabetes and many more obesity related cancers. One group of non-movers these days are video gamers. Many can be so hooked on their games that they sit for extended periods of time without regular breaks to play […]
This week is European Week of Sport! Punctuated on Wednesdays National Fitness Day @FitnessdayUK This week European Week of Sport reminds us that inactivity is a leading factor in poor health and it’s time to get involved and get active. Organisations such as schools, Gyms, recreation centres and activity events across the country are opening […]
The same week the vast majority of teachers have moved against high stake primary school testing such as SAT’s via a ballot of members at the UK’s largest Education Union another news piece has surfaced indicating that the majority of Head teachers are against mandatory baseline testing of primary school children on entry to primary […]
The Decathlon Activity Index 2019 has shown that 77% of Parents are more active than their children. The survey asked parents to compare activity levels with their kids and even when including P.E. lessons a huge 77% of parents said they exercised more than their kids. If the parent’s child is adult then the figure […]
A recent study featured in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health has linked sitting for extended periods of time to approximately one in ten deaths each year in the UK. Speaking of modern day workplaces the lead author said they “represented a significant proportion of unavoidable daily sitting time for many people”. A recent […]
BBC Panorama has reported that an Academy head ordered her staff to cheat on Sat’s tests. Suzanne Barham spoke to TV documentary Panorama and details how she was instructed to provide the answers to pupils that were struggling in the 11 year old test environment. “We were told to go and work with specific children […]
The BBC have produced a short video documenting their interviews with three primary school head teachers who say they feel completely unsupported by the government when it comes to offering mental health support to their pupils. The BBC say there has been a 50% increase in referrals to mental health services for pupils aged 11 […]
The Department of Education has launched a competition to develop early years “edtech” apps which will be designed to develop literacy, language and communication skills to kids. The winning apps will be offered to families for free in 12 underprivileged areas of the UK as part of a DfE pilot scheme. “We want to help […]
