IN THIS ISSUE Easter Days Out Clubs & Classes Family Health Education What’s On Guide RECRUITING NOW Successful ‘business mum’ is seeking 5 working partners to work part-time from home, alongside and without compromising family commitments or current career. If you have a supervisory, managerial, sales, marketing, recruitment or self-employed background, or you wish to develop an extraordinary lifestyle please call Vicki King 07501 433 922 Issue 5 March/April 2019 familiesonline.co.uk Smart Cookies Welcome Eat School Lunch ’’ HC3S offer a varied, balanced diet which our daughter loves. Parent 2018 ’’ hants.gov.uk/hc3s and find us on facebook @hc3seducation BID 1985 BID 1985_V3_HC3S ADVERT.indd 1 06/02/2019 13:54 2 Families Dorset familiesonline.co.uk Welcome Editor’s Welcome Spring has finally sprung which means it’s time to start looking forward to the warmer weather and make family plans for the weeks ahead and Easter holidays. 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More info: www.rospa.com equipment. 4 Families Dorset familiesonline.co.uk EducationNews Children with Better Co-Ordination Are Individualised Learning & Care at More Likely To Moyles Court School Achieve Moyles Court (from age 3 to 16yrs) is set Young children with better eye-to-hand co- within the most beautiful New Forest Park ordination are more likely to achieve higher with extensive grounds, offering your child scores for reading, writing and maths according the most wonderful opportunities to thrive to new research by the University of Leeds. in the outdoors as well and the classroom. More than 300 children ages 4 to 11 took part in Not only will the children benefit from various computer tasks designed to measure eye- smaller class sizes, excellent pastoral to-hand coordination, such as steering, taking aim care and a curriculum tailored and tracking objects on a computer screen. to their individual needs, they Open Day will also enjoy weekly sessions Sat 2 March The results revealed that the children who did better in French, PE, Dance, Cookery, & Sat 11 May in the eye-to-hand co-ordination tasks tended to Music Bugs & Forest Schools. 10am -12.30pm have higher academic attainment in reading, writing and maths. Richard Milner Smith, Headmaster says: “Our core values are at the heart of In particular, those with the best performance in the our fabulous school and we provide the best ‘steering task’ were on average 9 months ahead of possible start in life. We offer individualised classmates who struggled. learning, a flexible approach to travel and wrap around care – making us accessible The findings raise the question of whether schools to so many families who want their children should be doing more to give support to children to be happy, learning and achieving in our who are clumsy.