Some children are fussy eaters. Expanding their palate can be extremely challenging and there are no ‘quick fix’ answers. We’ve teamed up with paediatric dietitian Anjanee Kohli to find out best practice when encouraging children to try new foods. She also gives some advice on when further help might be required.
In this hugely informative webinar, Dr Fionnuala Barton, The Menopause Medic, talks us through how the menopause can affect both women and their wider family. She answers all of your questions, separates fact from fiction and helpfully talks through available treatment options.
Tooled Up founder Dr Weston is joined by English teacher and examiner, Patrick Cragg, and Debi Roberts, CEO of suicide prevention charity, The OLLIE Foundation. Together, they discuss the prevalence of the theme of suicide and other mature themes in GCSE texts and how teachers can approach these sensitively.
Parent Emma Dalrymple joins Tooled Up’s Rhonda Ziman to talk about school avoidance. Emma’s daughter has been out of full time education for 10 years. Here, Emma and Rhonda share their personal experiences of this hugely challenging issue and offer some tips to other parents going through the same.
Tooled Up Education’s school avoidance specialist Rhonda Ziman talks us through resources on our website to support parents and carers. These range from podcasts that explore the issues, to worksheets that children can complete. The aim of these is to identify what is triggering school-induced anxiety, and to build a child’s self-confidence when tackling these wobbly moments.
This short questionnaire, devised by Professor David Putwain and colleagues, was developed to measure test or examination anxiety in populations of secondary school students, aged 11 to 19 years. It is intended for use by school practitioners (such as teachers, school pastoral and support staff, educational and school psychologists, and school counsellors) and others who wish to identify highly test anxious students who may benefit from support or intervention, or to evaluate changes in test anxiety before and after intervention.
This short questionnaire, devised by Professor David Putwain and colleagues, was developed to measure the perceived frequency that teachers use fear appeals (warning students of the consequences of failure) prior to a high-stakes examination and their appraisal by students as either a challenge or a threat. When used to survey student opinions, it can give teachers a sense of the impact of their messages and reveal how specific individuals are responding.
This resource is designed to help adults engage younger children in supportive conversations about a loved one’s illness. We invite children to gently open up about worries they may have, give them confidence to ask questions and demonstrate that there are people in their lives who are prepared to help them find out the answers.
This resource is designed to help adults engage younger children in supportive conversations about a parent’s alcoholism. We invite children to gently open up about worries they may have, give them confidence to ask questions and demonstrate that there are people in their lives who are prepared to help answer those questions. This resources also features a question and answer section written for adults to use, with guideline responses suggested by NACOA (National Association for the Children of Alcoholics).
In this 20 minute video for year 10 students, we help young people to understand more about their stage of development, introduce the concept of emotional literacy and point out the power that teens have in changing their mood and developing resilient habits.
