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FREE TAKE ME HOME Gloucestershire IN THIS ISSUE Check out a Heritage England site for free! Parenting How a parent blogger became a best-selling author Education Try a New Class or Club Tips for settling into school This Autumn? My Stage School Now Have Wednesday Classes! - Page 12 300 BRAND NEW WEDNESDAY Book now for Easter and Summer SCHOOL 2020 workshops before we sell out FOR AGES 4-18 @ NAUNTON PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL Now recruiting new students aged BRAND NEW AGE 4-6 CLASS 4-18 from September. SATURDAYS @ ST JAMES’ PRIMARY SCHOOL Issue 52 September/October 2019 familiesonline.co.uk © National Trust 2019 . Registered charity, No. 205846. © National Trust Images Is your child sitting the Gloucestershire Grammar School Entrance Examination? We provide coaching for pupils in years 4 and 5, ensuring that children are fully prepared for all aspects of the CEM test. Our small group approach is designed to increase knowledge and build confidence, allowing children to flourish and achieve their potential. Why choose us ? • Your child’s coach has twenty years education experience, including 14 years as a primary and secondary headteacher. • Our programme has been carefully designed to cover all aspects of the CEM test. \ Autumn Christopher Heaney • Each session lasts 1 hour 45 minutes. Sessions run during term time and school holidays, ensuring momentum and skills are retained. • Working in small groups ( no larger than 8) children learn and practice all elements of the CEM test. Games and traditional teaching methods are used to engage and stimulate adventures learning. • Children take part in termly mock exams. Following this a full question level analysis is shared with parents. Enabling you to see which elements of the test your child needs to . focus on and where they are succeeding. • All children are provided with practice books to use at home. • Children have access to our on line learning hub. The hub allows made at Newark children to practice various aspects of the CEM test. Children build confidence and speed. Parents are then able to review progress in specific areas over time. Visit our website to secure your child’s place Park for September 2019 or request a personal telephone call from our lead coach. Throughout October Classes held in 11am-5pm Woolaston, Lydney, Pull on your wellies and head out on an exploration of the Newark Park Newnham On Severn countryside this autumn. Jump in leaf piles, splash in muddy puddles or follow our seasonal trail through the gardens. and Gloucester For more information visit www.11pluscoachinggloucestershire.co.uk nationaltrust.org.uk/newark-park Or email [email protected] Open daily from 10am! Book online for a reduced entry price! Sp26tho oOctoberk A - 3rdca Novemberdemy Learn how to be scary with lots of Spooktacular activities! Wild Explorers Holiday Club 28th October-1st November Pre-payment required at the time of booking. Wild Tots Toddler Time Thursdays 10.30am-11.30am Term time only. Included in entry price. All Things Wild Nature Centre Station Road, Honeybourne, Near Evesham, Worcestershire. WR11 7QZ Tel: 01386 833083 2 Families Gloucestershire www.familiesonline.co.uk Contents 4 News Heritage open days for Free! Sad dads 6 Education Gloucestershire Tips for settling into school 9 Parenting How a parent blogger became a To advertise with us and reach over best-selling author 50,000 parents in the region contact Katie Azam on: 07921 338894 or email 10 Health ADHD – Busting myths [email protected] The headlice guide …endless ideas for families of young 12 Classes/Clubs/Activities children in Gloucester – Cheltenham – Trying a new club or class Tewkesbury- Forest of Dean – Painswick – Stroud – Cirencester – 14 Whats On Tetbury – And all other Your guide to what’s happening in surrounding towns and villages Gloucestershire throughout Gloucestershire. 16 Halloween Fun! How to make tasty Boo-meringue pops this Halloween! To Advertise with us Gloucestershire and reach over 40,000 parents in the region contact Katie Azam on: 07921 338894 or Issue 52 - September/October 2019 email [email protected] Katie Azam, Editor t: 07921 338894 e: [email protected] The Mini Media Company, Design Warners Midlands plc, Print Visit us at www.familiesonline.co.uk E facebook.com/familiesGloucestershire Magazine D @FamiliesGlosMag Next Issue November / December 2019 For fireworks displays, Christmas fun and much more… 01242 378313 Families Gloucestershire is part of Families Print Ltd, a franchise company. All franchised magazines in the group are independently owned and operated under licence. Families is a registered trademark of LCMB Ltd, Remenham House, Regatta Place, Marlow Road, Bourne End, Bucks SL8 5TD. The contents of Families Gloucestershire are fully protected by copyright and none of the editorial or photographic matter may be reproduced in any form without prior consent of Families Gloucestershire. Every care is taken in the preparation of this magazine, but the franchise compa- ny, Families Print Ltd and Lifecycle Marketing cannot be held responsible for the claims of advertisers nor for the accuracy of the contents, or any consequence thereof. www.familiesonline.co.uk www.familiesonline.co.uk Do you have any news, for our next issue? Email: [email protected] Families Gloucestershire 3 News Free Family Fun with Calls for Compulsory Heritage Open Days Climate Change Education in This year, Heritage Open Days is celebrating its 25th anniversary and will be the biggest and most diverse to date. Schools Running from 13 to 22 September, this annual celebration A petition launched by four Oxford school girls calling for lessons of England's history and culture, allows visitors FREE access on Climate Change to be made compulsory in schools has to historical landmarks that are either not usually open to the gathered over 75,000 signatures. public, or would normally charge an entrance fee. The students are hoping to make climate change a “core part Nationwide there will be hundreds of FREE interactive of the compulsory curriculum” to increase the next generation’s activities for children, including dressing up, crafting, woodland understanding of the global issue. walks and railway rides They claim they have “barely learned about the climate crisis With a theme of ‘People Power,’ this year’s festival will offer at school, even though it’s supposed to be part of Geography visitors more opportunities than ever to discover the secret and Science.” history of their towns, villages and countryside. According to the petition: “Climate change is the biggest issue Co-ordinated nationally by the National Trust with support of our time, and it must be a part of our education if our from the People’s Postcode Lottery, the celebration brings generation is to understand it and help us to combat its effects. together thousands of organisations and properties across That’s why we want climate change to be made a core part of England. For local events visit, www.heritageopendays.org.uk the national curriculum.” More info: www.change.org School Children to Tackle Speeding Drivers An initiative in London is getting primary school pupils to confront speeding motorists, in a bid to enforce the 20mph speed limit near schools. The Junior Roadwatch scheme involves drivers who are caught speeding and pulled over by police officers being given the option of receiving a fixed penalty fine and points on their license, attending a speeding awareness course or being told off by children. Drivers “deemed suitable” to speak to the pupils following a police national computer check will face questions such as “are you aware of the consequences of speeding” and “why do you think the speed limit is 20mph on this road?”. Collisions are a leading cause of serious injury, disability or death of children in the UK. In 2017, 48 children died in road collisions in the UK and over 15,700 children were injured. Similar schemes are being used elsewhere, including parts of Hertfordshire, West Yorkshire and Northumberland. More info: www.tfl.gov.uk 4 Families Gloucestershire www.familiesonline.co.uk News Picky Eaters Still Grow Up Healthy Picky eating in toddlers is a well-documented phase when children don’t want to try new foods and/or show very strong preferences. It can create much worry for parents, and has created a whole market for advice, guidance and tools to encourage young children to try lots of new tastes and textures. But researchers from the University of Bristol using data from Qualified Childminder or Nursery a study of children between the ages of 7 to 17 have found that instead of being harmed by their diets, children who had been May Be Better for Children picky eaters at age 3 were growing normally as adolescents with a healthy height and weight. Children may experience a better outcome in early years care 11455 The -researchers GWR Families claim Mag the Scream study &shows Santa_Layout that even 1 children 23/08/2019 who 14:08 P that is provided by Ofsted registered carers or in a nursery are picky as pre-schoolers usually eat well enough over time to setting than in informal care settings such as with friends or ensure they grow properly. More info: www.bristol.ac.uk/news extended family, a study has suggested. Specifically, the study found that education and care with childminders at age 2 was found to have had a significant positive effect on children’s language development and behaviour at age 3. Group based settings such as nurseries and playgroups were also shown to have positive effects on children’s socio- emotional development including how well they get along with other children. The Study of Early Education and Development (SEED) is conducted by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) in collaboration with the University of Oxford and is funded by the Department of Education.