This week sees several interesting news items surrounding kid’s health making the headlines. So rather than pick one out to write about we decided to bring you a news week breakdown focusing on kid’s health and education. So let’s get into it. Dentists Call For Sugar Free Schools. This week saw Dentists asking schools in […]
A study of 2000 children across the Southwest of England shows kids activity levels drop every year of Primary School resulting in a dramatic different between when they start and when they finish primary school. The research by professor of paediatric physical activity Russ Jago from the University of Bristol found that kids became 17 […]
A film by Daniel Gordon has been released lauding one London Primary School for introducing a series of measures to combat the growing trend of poor mental health in children. [You can watch the video here] Highgate Primary School, has embraced several innovative measures to improve their pupils mental well-being, from dogs in the playground, […]
Childhood obesity in the UK is at crisis point. Nearly one in twenty year 6 pupils require medical intervention as a result of obesity. One in five children enter primary school already obese and a staggering two out of three end their last primary term obese. The requirements of schools when covering food and nutrition […]
A worrying annual report has surfaced on the BBC website this week detailing how one in five young people have been a victim of bullying. Now three quarters of those bullied said it affected their mental health and they “nearly became depressed” as a result. The figures mirror last year’s study. The Children’s commissioner for […]
500 GP’s will adopt standing desks in their practise in a new trial designed to “set an example” of healthy living by delivering standing consultations. The primary aim of the study is to determine if swapping to standing desks can improve GP’s own health however a secondary aim is to inspire their patients to become […]
At a time where childhood obesity is being given some well overdue attention It has been reported that University College London (UCL) have released details of a study which indicates that students who are physically active during a lesson have improved results in tests than classmates who choose sedentary learning. So star jumps, running on […]
Jonathan Haslam has produced an article this week asking the question of whether “Can schools be expected to solve the obesity crisis?” Haslam is the Director of the Institute for Effective Education. The IEE is an independent charity promoting the use of evidence in education policy and decision making so it stands to reason that […]
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 […]
