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Newcastle Gateshead In this issue Making the best of Open Days The Benefits of Boredom Choosing the right Club or Class for your child Issue 02 Sep/Oct 2018 familiesonline.co.uk Charity No: 1056812 @7stories Tel: 0300 330 1095 ext.300 @7stories See www.sevenstories.org.uk for more information @7stories in this Welcome So, who blinked and the summer holidays were over – yes even though each day probably felt like it would never end. We are in full on back to school mode – back into the routines, the early mornings, new classes and clubs to try now we are another school issue year older and dealing with new teachers, new homework and new challenges. Good Luck to all those ‘Babies’ starting nursery and school – I P4 know they look too small! Where did the time go? But they will be fine – you may not be - but plan a little something nice for news after those first few days of drop off. No matter how old your children are its good to keep in the know about what’s available locally to try out new things, (see the special trial offers on page 5 & Page 11) get signed up at age appropriate times for future classes like beavers and rainbows and even start thinking about school and nursery for your babies. Are you aware of the new 30 hour provision at some nursery’s? P8 P6 Check out your local nursery/school for their open days as September is often busy in the school calendar. Education Family Well I am excited for the Autumn Season with the crisp air, darker nights, candles and snuggles. Get organised for Halloween Matters Matters with your local events. My favourite night of the year approaches with Bonfire Night nearly upon us, the smell of smoke, fireworks and hot chocolate - and then we hit the countdown to You Know What! (Never too early to start planning the holiday season – check out our early bird offer on page 8) I would love to see what you get up to so feel free to tag us on social media and say Hi! P11 Enjoy the Autumn Term and all the newness it may bring. Much Love Club & classes Cáit Note: Gateshead 1/ 2 term dates differ from others. P13 What’s on & Where @FamNEMag facebook.com/FamNEMag Newcastle Gateshead Next issue: Nov/Dec 2018 (Christmas and New Year Special) Circulation: 16,000 copies of Families NewcastleGateshead are available through nurseries, schools, libraries, selected shops and other points throughout Newcastle and Gateshead. If you would like free copies for your organisation, please let us know. 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Every care is taken in the preparation of this magazine, but Families Newcastle, its distributors, the franchise company, Families Print Ltd and LCMB Ltd cannot be held responsible for the claims of advertisers nor for the accuracy of the contents, or any Please recycle consequence thereof. familiesonline.co.uk Families NewcastleGateshead 3 Razzamtaz News Two Thirds of Children Education Linked To Not Safe in Cars Short-Sightedness said “Myopia develops mainly during school years and then tends to stabilise in adulthood.” In some Asian countries like Singapore, South Korea and China, where there are intensive education pressures including homework at pre-school level, as many as 90% of people are short-sighted by the time they leave school at 18. Half of these Parents are being advised to were incorrectly fitted in the children are already myopic by check their children’s car seats car, while 33% of those that The longer a person spends in the end of primary school, after a new study found that had children in them weren’t education the more short- compared to 10 per cent of two in three children aren’t suitable. sighted they are likely to British children. safe while travelling. Many of the mistakes were become, according to a recent However, it remains unclear The What Car? study, said to be “simple and easy to large scale study. how exactly education impacts created in conjunction with avoid,” and included tightening Researchers based at the a child’s eyesight. specialist organisation Child seat belts, incorrect head University of Bristol and Cardiff One finding was that Seat Safety found that 59% of restraints or harnesses being in University conducted a study of spending more time outdoors children are sitting in car seats the wrong position. 68,000 participants’ education, protects children against the that have been incorrectly fitted In the UK, children are legally sight and genetic information. development of myopia. or are inappropriate for them. required to remain in a car seat The study proves that Another was, near-work The survey on 3,000 seats, until they are either 12 years education is a “causal risk activities such as reading with and without children in old or at least 135 cm tall, factor” for short sight (myopia). contribute to myopia, although them, held at random seat- whichever comes first. Cardiff University’s Prof Jez not to the same extent as lack checking events throughout More info at www.gov.uk/ Guggenheim, from the school of of time outside. the UK, revealed that 36% child-car-seats-the-rules optometry and vision sciences, More info at www.bmj.com Alesha Dixon Encourages Children to Celebrate their Individuality in Lightning Girl: Superhero Squad What inspired you to become a Aurora Beam is now starting to everyone else to children’s author? find that this ‘saving-the-world be accepted. You I love new creative challenges! lark’ isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. all have a light, I felt there was a gap in the World-famous overnight, she’s don’t so don’t let market for an inspirational book now living in the full glare of the anything dim it. which featured a young female media’s flash bulbs: everyone We’re all unique superhero as a positive role model wants a piece of Aurora. When and collectively we can all help for boys and girls of different she attends a global gathering one another in our own special ethnicities. One of my driving of superheroes, will she find way. It is important to me that forces was the desire for there to support from new friends? Or will all children learn that they can be a book out there to which my there be rivalries and sabotage contribute, that they are daughter could strongly relate. to deal with? There’s twists and counted and that they are Alesha Dixon Encourages What feedback have you had turns throughout, and the important. I want them to Children to Celebrate their from your first book? challenges get bigger as the realise that nobody should be Individuality in Lightning Girl: I couldn’t be happier with the story moves on. discriminated against, nobody Superhero Squad. feedback I’ve received! There’s There are a lot of messages should feel excluded in any way, We know her as a BGT judge, a nothing more rewarding than interwoven within your book. and we all should feel worthy. If Strictly judge, a TV personality having a child say they love your What do you hope are the core children have a gift or talent, I’d and a pop star, but did you know book, and to have a parent say messages received by your love this book to give them Alesha Dixon has recently become ‘Thank you for getting my child readers? permission to celebrate it. a children’s author? We spoke to enjoy reading’. Essentially, what I’m saying to Lightning Girl: Superhero to Alesha about the upcoming What is the general idea young people is “you all have a Squad by Alesha Dixon will be release of her new book – Lightning plotline of your second book? superpower within you”. It’s published by Scholastic on 6th Girl: Superhero Squad, the sequel Aurora doesn’t want to be a okay to be different, it’s okay to Sept 2018 to her electrifying first book superhero. She just wants to be stand out. You don’t have to Catch up on Aurora’s first Lightning Girl. a normal girl who blends in. follow everyone else or to be like adventure in Lightning Girl! 4 Families NewcastleGateshead familiesonline.co.uk News School Mental Health Referrals One Festival. Two Weekends. Rise By Over a Third 5000 Free Events Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) since 2014/15. Just over half (56%) came from primary schools. Referrals have been steadily increasing every year, reaching 34,757 in 2017/18, the equivalent of 183 every school day. The NSPCC is warning that increased demand for mental The number of referrals by health support is placing the schools seeking mental health system under real pressure, treatment for pupils has shot jeopardising the well-being of up by more than a third in the thousands of children.