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News update: February - March 2007:
Scotland 2007
Two courses coming to Glasgow
and Edinburgh in March 2007:
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Better Learning Through
Better Behaviour: Reaching and Teaching Disruptive
Pupils In Secondary Schools
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Teaching For Learning: How
To Develop Engaged, Energised, Motivated and Independent
Learners
All courses will take place in
city centre hotels in Glasgow and Edinburgh on Tuesday 13th
& Wednesday 14th March 2007 - both close to main Railway
Stations. For more information on these courses, and how to
book your place, please visit www.behaviourmatters.com/scotland2007
New Publication – Order Now
You can now order your copy of
Dave Vizard’s new publication ‘How To Manage Behaviour In
Further Education’ – which will be published in March /
April 2007 through Paul Chapman Publishing. For more
details, please visit www.behaviourmatters.com/bookad.htm.
Cookery Classes Are Likely
Return
Home Economics disappeared
from the curriculum in the late 1980s when the National
Curriculum was introduced, and was merged into Design
Technology classes. Plans are in place to re-introduce this
subject. Education Secretary Alan Johnson has said he hopes
compulsory cooking lessons would lead to a resurgence in
home cooking. “I want kids rolling up their sleeves and
getting to grips with simple healthy meals from scratch
…cooking is an essential life skill, something all young
people will have to do day in, day out.”
It is hoped that the
re-introduction of this subject will help to tackle an
obesity epidemic occurring amongst children.
Healthy School Meals Lead
To Better Concentration and Less Disruptive Behaviour
Research has found that pupils
when given an option choose nutritionally balanced lunches.
Research conducted by Professor Colquhoun at the Institute
for Learning at Hull University, found that 65% of 24 000
pupils in Primary and Special Schools in the Hull area who
were eligible for free school lunches went for the
nutritionally balanced option.
Children who took these
lunches rather than having packed lunches or fast food from
local vendors scored higher marks in tests, were less
disruptive and able to concentrate longer. City authorities
say they are experiencing calmer classrooms, more
enthusiastic, socially confident, and less irritable
children.
Britain Junk Food Capital
of Europe
It has been found that 10-13
year olds consume up to 60% more confectionary than Holland
and France (who are second in the table of junk food eating
habits). Children are also drinking an average of 677 litres
of cola a year.
Busy parental lifestyles mean
youngsters need ‘hold-me-over’ afternoon snacks to
compensate for later evening mealtimes – hence visits to
shops for snacks on the way home. It is predicted that
nearly a quarter of breakfasts will be missed per year by
6-13 year olds. Poor diet, lack of activity and exercise is
fuelling obesity and is linked to ill health and premature
death.
Slot Machine Junkies
In a study of 8 000
adolescents it was found that 17% played fruit machines at
least once a week – with the problem being worse amongst
men. 6% of adolescent fruit machine players are
‘pathological gamblers’.
The BMA Report suggests that
these figures are at least 2 to 3 times higher than in the
adult population. Young people are clearly more vulnerable
to the negative consequences of gambling than adults.
Addiction to fruit machines causes:
It is believed that a
generation of gambling addicts could be spawned unless
youngsters are banned from using slot machines. New gambling
laws will need to be amended and groups are calling out for
an all out ban on gambling amongst under-18s.
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