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Gloucestershire FREE TAKE ME HOME Gloucestershire IN THIS ISSUE Childcare Toddlers behaving badly Education Why turn to tutors? The Great Outdoors Are you festival ready? What’s On Activities and days out in Gloucestershire Issue 50 May/June 2019 familiesonline.co.uk It’s Official! Our Readers Prefer Families Magazine to the Internet! Last year, we conducted a survey across the UK asking readers to tell us what they find useful about our magazine and how likely they would be to respond to advertising in it. We were delighted to receive almost 500 responses and by the wonderful feedback you gave us. More than 70% of our readers said they were highly likely to respond to advertising in our magazine or had already done so. That’s fabulous news for our advertisers and for our readers, because it means we can carry on making and confusing, involving lots of trawling online for useful the magazine better and better! information. A whopping 79% of readers told us that they use the We were also really happy that large numbers of you magazine to research ideas for local family activities or reported that Families Magazine makes your lives easier classes and clubs for children and an equally impressive and less stressful and saves you time. 74% said they use it to plan family life. Thank you to everyone that volunteered their comments. Many of you also told us that you find easier to plan family activities and entertainment using Families If you are interested in taking part in one of our Magazine than using the internet! You told us that using Reader Forums, please email info@familiesmagazine. the internet to research and plan can be time consuming co.uk with your name, phone number and post code. © National Trust 2019 . Registered charity, No. 205846. © National Trust Images \ Join our bugs & John Millar beasties week . at Newark Park Monday 27 May - Sunday 2 June 11am-5pm Follow our bugs and beasties trail around the gardens and discover what bugs live in Newark house. Normal admission applies. nationaltrust.org.uk/newark-park 2 Families Gloucestershire www.familiesonline.co.uk Contents 4 News Climate change for teachers Learning to save lives 6 Education Demystifying Phonics Gloucestershire Why turn to tutors 8 Childcare Editorial Childcare in the school Holidays Katie Azam Toddlers behaving badly 07921 338894 [email protected] 10 Parenting Teaching children to be kind Design The Mini Media Company 11 Travel 01789 417897 Family Festivals 2019 www.minimediaco.com Top 5 travel Tips Next issue 12 Classes, Clubs & Activities July/August 2019. For summer holiday activities, Your guide to Summer Camps school information and much more… 14 What’s On Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for all your Your guide to what’s happening in the ED local up to date family information! @FamiliesGlosMag Gloucestershire area in May and June Gloucestershire To Advertise with us and reach over 50,000 parents in the region contact Katie Azam on: 07921 338894 or email [email protected] …endless ideas for families of young children in Gloucester – Cheltenham – Tewkesbury- Forest of Dean – Painswick – Stroud – Cirencester – Tetbury – And all other surrounding towns and villages throughout Gloucestershire. Cover Kid Congratulations to Cali Sargent 6, from Dunally Primary School Here at Families Gloucestershire we have had so much fun going through all of the wonderful entries to our Families Gloucestershire Cover Kid Competition over the past month, and the competition was so strong, but there could only be one winner – check out our back cover to see if your entry made it through to the final few! 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 www.familiesonline.co.uk email: [email protected] Tel: 07824 377175 Bedfordshire 17 News Parent School Holiday Fines at Record Level The number of fines issued to parents in England for taking children on term time holidays has risen to record levels, according to figures from the Department of Education (DfE). Penalty notices for unauthorised absences rose to 260,000 in 2017-18, an increase of 110,000 compared with the previous year. "Unauthorised family holiday absence" was the most common First Climate Change reason for attendance fines, the DfE said. In September 2013 the government changed the law so head Teachers to be Taught in teachers could only grant a leave of absence to pupils during term time in "exceptional circumstances", such as funerals. Councils can require parents to pay £60 each per child taken the UK out of school without permission. This rises to £120 if not paid within 21 days, and after 28 days parents can be prosecuted. Teachers across the country have the opportunity to become the first climate change teachers accredited by the UN. More Protection for This one of a kind climate change education programme will Mums Returning use innovative learning technology so teachers can learn at home or on the go. The aim is to make sure teachers can help to Work protect the climate by educating their students with the latest New parents returning to work could data and information on climate change, sustainability, and the receive greater protection from green economy. redundancy under new government proposals. Education provider YPO sponsors this FREE, global education The government is proposing that programme. All you have to do is sign up to Harwood mothers returning to work from Education’s UN CC: Learn Teacher Academy. maternity leave will be protected from redundancy for a minimum of six months. The course, which takes just 8 hours to complete explores The announcement followed research which found that one the science that supports the existence and effects of Climate in nine women had been fired or made redundant when they Change on children, cities, human health, and gender. returned to work after having a child, or were treated so badly they felt forced out of their job. If you work in a school or want to get your child's school It is also considering giving the same protection to parents involved go to www.unccteacheracademy.com to find out more. returning from adoption or shared parental leave. Maths Anxiety Affecting Young Children Children as young as eight can feel fear, rage and despair as a result of “maths anxiety”, a condition which can severely disrupt their performance. Researchers at Cambridge University recently surveyed 2,700 primary and secondary students and found that a feeling that maths was more difficult than other subjects often contributed to maths anxiety and loss of confidence. Researchers say maths anxiety should be treated as a “real concern” because children suffering from it do not fulfil their true maths ability and can find themselves locked in a vicious circle; suffering from anxiety which harms their maths performance, which in turn leads to increased anxiety. Even children who have normal competency levels in maths may avoid it because they feel anxious. Key triggers for anxiety include poor marks, test pressures, teasing by fellow pupils and a confusing mix of teaching methods, the study found. More info at www.cam.ac.uk/research/news 4 Families Gloucestershire www.familiesonline.co.uk News Foster Care Fortnight - You Learning Life-Saving Skills Can Make a Difference to Become Compulsory Foster Care Fortnight™ runs from 13 to 26 May and is the UK's Beginning in 2020, all state schools in England will be biggest foster carer awareness raising campaign, delivered by required to teach “life-saving skills” under new plans for leading fostering charity, The Fostering Network. health education announced by the Government. The campaign showcases the commitment, passion and According to draft guidelines released by the Department dedication of foster carers. It demonstrates that 'foster care of Education, primary school children are set to learn basic transforms lives' - not just the lives of the young people who are first aid, as well as steps they can take to protect and support fostered, but also those of foster carers and their families and the health and wellbeing of others, including calling friends. emergency services. Children age 5 years will learn basic Undoubtedly fostering is challenging but there are tremendous first aid and children as young as 11 years will be shown CPR rewards including making a positive difference to a vulnerable at school. child or young person, opportunities to expand skills through "Learning the basic skills of first aid and techniques like training courses, the chance to develop relationships that can CPR will give young people the confidence to know that they last a lifetime and generous financial incentives. The satisfaction can step in to help someone else in need and in the most and pride in helping a young person with difficulties develop into extreme cases - it could potentially save a life” announced a rounded individual is the ultimate reward for the majority of Education Secretary, Damian Hinds.
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