Pupil wellbeing in primary schools – NAPE 077
New Edurio research reveals half of children feel stressed and a quarter feel lonely.
Edurio has published their latest research examining pupil wellbeing, support systems in school and how pupils feel about school. The study drew on responses from 45,000 children of which 15,000 were from primary.
- Children feel progressively less well as the move through primary school – 76% in year 1 feel well but this drops by 17 percentage points in Y6 when 59% report feeling well.
- Children feel more stressed in Y6 (36%) than in Y1 (22%)
- More primary aged children feel overworked in Y2 and Y3 than at any other time during primary school.
- The research shows that the transition to secondary school has a negative impact on children’s wellbeing and the drop is greater than at other times during school.
- Children’s overall wellbeing drops from 59% feeling well in Y6 to 46% in Y7.
- More students often feel stressed – rising from 36% in Y6 to 43% in Y7
- More children report not sleeping well in Y7 (30%) than in Y6 (28%)
Mark Taylor chats to Iona Jackson co-author of the Edurio report about her findings.
Full details can be found at:
https://home.edurio.com/pupil-learning-experience-and-wellbeing-report
To keep up to date with all the work by National Association for Primary Education please visit:
MarvellousMe Parent Engagement App – NAPE 076
‘MarvellousMe is a game-changer for parent engagement.’
MarvellousMe engages parents by telling them about their children’s learning and success. It enriches family conversations about school and makes it easy for parents to help their children’s education and say: ‘Well done!’
Delivering a positive teacher-parent partnership, MarvellousMe makes it easy for schools to implement the best practice prescribed by experts like the Education Endowment Foundation. To build and sustain excellent parent engagement and positive behaviour school-wide.
Designed by a once disengaged dad, MarvellousMe is different from messaging systems, social media and solo teacher apps. It involves and equips parents with personal, positive and progress-led news, and gives leaders the ability to focus parent engagement on essential topics and school values, analytics to ensure whole school consistency and peace-of-mind that data is managed centrally, securely and in the UK under the GDPR.
Inspire, involve and empower parents.
Social Media Information
@MarvellousMeApp
This conversation was previously recorded for the Education on Fire Podcast of which NAPE is a sponsor.
Can you help educators find answers to your questions? – NAPE 075
Here at the National Association for Primary Education are looking for educators to help us ‘Pay It Forward’.
We see hundreds of questions asked on social media every week. What if we could collate the answers, get your views and experiences in a way that could support thousands of others?
If you are an educator and have ever asked a question and received a great answer – online or in person – we invite you to Pay It Forward.
Please be a guest on the NAPE podcast with Mark Taylor (NAPE vice chair) and spend 10 minutes discussing these 5 things.
- How are you currently involved in education?
- What question did you ask?
- What was the answer?
- Who gave it to you?
- What advice can you share from your own experiences?
That is it!
To get involved and find out all the details please visit nape.org.uk
SEN CPD with Dr Anne Margaret Smith – NAPE 074
National Association for Primary Education presents:
Special Educational Needs CPD
Monday 6th December 2021 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
This online zoom event will cover 3 areas of Special Educational Needs to help you support your pupils:
– English as an Additional Language (EAL)
– How to identify children who may also have dyslexia or another SPLD
– Common speech, language and communication needs
Co-occurring challenges
Do you ever worry that a child in your class is not making the progress you were expecting? There may be many reasons for this – and some will overlap. In this interactive session, we will look at some of the causes of underachievement, and try to find some solutions that could benefit the whole class.
We will start by looking at how all teachers can effectively support those learners who are using English as an Additional Language (EAL), and then move on to what we should be alert to in order to identify any children who also may have dyslexia or another SPLD. Finally, we will look at some common speech, language and communication needs, and how they could be met in the classroom.
Please feel free to bring your questions and share your experiences, so that, as a group, we can empower each other to support our learners.
Host
Mark Taylor (Vice Chair NAPE) – Mark has been a professional percussionist for 25 years and performed with some of the major orchestras and arts organisations in the UK. Mark combines his performing career with teaching drums/percussion in schools and providing whole class rhythm workshops.
Mark is the creator and host of the Education on Fire podcast. He interviews educators from around the world so that he can enable his listeners to support children to live, learn and grow to their full potential. He has recorded over 300 episodes which have been downloaded in over 135 countries.
Presenter
Dr. Anne Margaret Smith started her career as a teacher of English as a foreign / additional language around 30 years ago. Alongside her language teaching, she also works as a dyslexia assessor and specialist tutor, and has designed an assessment tool to allow us to identify SpLDs in multilingual people. She founded ELT well in 2005, to combine these two fields of education, and offers professional development and resources to language teachers in all contexts. She is currently also training to be a Speech and Language Therapist.
If you can not join us live a replay will be available.
Event Fee
£12.50 per person
FREE to NAPE members (use promotional code at checkout)
To book please visit https://nape.org.uk/sen
Primary Music CPD – NAPE 073
Primary Music CPD
Monday 18th October 2021
17.30-18.30 Live via Zoom (+ recording)
Full details and booking at nape.org.uk/primary-music
We will cover:
- Top 10 resources, organisations, work schemes
- 3 starting points for composition
- When, what, how of listening to music
- Music Assemblies
- Music across the curriculum
To keep up to date with all the events and download a FREE copy of our professional journal Primary First please visit: