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Jan 9, 2025 | 
msn.com | Julie Blake |James Scott
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
medicalxpress.com | Julie Blake |James Scott
Mental illness in Australian youth is rising. We don't know why, but despite very little evidence, social media is bearing the brunt of the blame. The Australian Government has responded with bold action: passing legislation to ban social media for under 16s. This legislation has been widely welcomed, receiving bipartisan support. However, careful analysis of the proposed changes will give pause for thought.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
journals.sagepub.com | Emily Martin |Subramanian Purushothaman |Emma L Ballard |Julie Blake
Research articleGet full access to this articleView all access and purchase options for this article. ReferencesAustralian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (2017) National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards, 2nd Edition. Sydney, NSW, Australia: ACSQHC. Buley N, Copland E, Hodge S, et al. (2017) A further decrease in the rates of administration of electroconvulsive therapy in England. The Journal of ECT 33: 198–202.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
l8r.it | Julie Blake |Anne Fine |Cariad Lloyd |Jessica Townsend
10% off all books and free delivery over £40 Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks. Each month we feature a small selection of books that are due to be published officially in the coming months. You can download and print off an opening extract of these 'not even on the presses' books and decide whether your children will like it enough to pre-order it and be sent it the minute it’s published.
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Dec 27, 2023 | 
lovereading4kids.co.uk | Julie Blake |Anne Fine |Cariad Lloyd |Jessica Townsend
Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks.
Each month we feature a small selection of books that are due to be published officially in the coming months. You can download and print off an opening extract of these 'not even on the presses' books and decide whether your children will like it enough to pre-order it and be sent it the minute it’s published.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
lovereading4kids.co.uk | Julie Blake
There are lots of reasons for children to learn poetry by heart, but this is especially true at Christmas. For one thing, there are so many wonderful – and varied – festive poems for young people, from much loved classics (A Visit from St Nicholas by Clement C. Moore) to contemporary favourites (Benjamin Zephaniah’s Talking Turkeys) to poems filled with the real magic of the season (Street Lights by Coral Rumble).
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
lovereading4kids.co.uk | Julie Blake
There are lots of reasons for children to learn poetry by heart, but this is specially true at Christmas. For one thing, there are so many wonderful – and varied – festive poems for young people, from much loved classics (A Visit from St Nicholas by Clement C. Moore) to contemporary favourites (Benjamin Zephaniah’s Talking Turkeys) to poems filled with the real magic of the season (Street Lights by Coral Rumble).
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
tes.com | Julie Blake
Poetry By Heart is a national competition in which young people choose poems they love, learn them by heart and perform them in school or college. This isn’t simply a nice thing for young people to do - it’s underpinned by three pedagogical principles that support greater understanding of poetry through allowing pupils to inhabit the world of a poem from the inside, rather than analysing it from the outside.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
tes.com | Julie Blake
Much is made of the different educational attainment gaps that exist based on gender, race, socioeconomic status or special educational needs and disabilities. One of the most striking is the fact just 41 per cent of Black Caribbean girls achieve a grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths, compared to 86.2 per cent of Chinese girls - a 45.2 per cent difference.
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Jan 26, 2023 | 
lovereading4kids.co.uk | Julie Blake |Joanne Owen
It's National Storytelling Week from 27 January to 4 February 2024 - a week to celebrate the power of storytelling and to encourage children to read. Storytelling is an incredible tool that develops a children's vocabularies, expands their horizons and improves their ability to learn
To join the jamboree of this important week for creativity, this month’s Get Creative feature will be a little different.
