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Within this blog post, I will be evaluating how physical education can promote well-being in primary education. Physical education has lots of benefits to children at school as they are learning different sports, how to keep healthy but recently learning how to look after themselves especially with what to eat. Children today are facing so many issues than earlier generations... Children are getting overweight, mental health issues and boys behaving badly and many more issues they are facing today. According to an NHS report childhood, obesity is rising once again. Children in their first year at school show 10% are in fact obese! In 2015-2016 it was reported that 9.3% of children in primary reception are obese and that figure the year before was 9.1% an increase of 0.2%. The rate also increased to 10-11-year-olds from 19.1% in 2015 to 19.8% in 2016. - Nearly one in five. According to the figures, boys are dangerous overweight than girls according to the latest NCMP results publish...

Within this blog post, we shall be exploring how science and technology activities are made engaging and relevant to primary education. STEM is known as Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics and is being promoted a lot more within Primary schools. These skills are crucial to have a strong economy and technological advance society. Over the last 10-15 years, we have had so many changes with technology around the world. - New innovations such as artificial intelligence, self-service, drones, self-driving cars and more which are constantly changing the way we live and evolve. According to our ex prime minster David Cameron he said "If we are going to succeed as a country than we need to train more scientists and more engineers" (David Cameron, 2013) We are facing a shortage of people working in these careers for the future. Engineers and technicians we will be short of 1 million new people by 2020. (Royal Academy of engineers, 2015) A review was recently taken b...

Collaborative learning 12 December, 2017 Collaborative learning can help learners in different ways, by working in groups a student can listen and interpret peers’ views and opinions, working in groups can allow room for suggestions to help others but also gain constructive criticism, if a student within a group is struggling on a certain topic but other members of a group understand they can help each other. Collaboration in group learning an also provide students who are quiet or shy can help to boost their confidence with support from Other group members. Collaboration also has a social Impact which can improve learning, if the learner feels more comfortable and relaxed within groups they can take in more from the learning experience . Collaboration in learning has huge research underpinning it, and is for the purpose of academic achievement, success for one helps other group members success (Goherk, 2016) Collaborative learning improves group/team work and h...

Creativity In Learning 10 December ,2017 Creativity learning can impact learning in many ways, it can improve engagement and concentration levels,   I have experienced and witnessed this myself when observing my child learn at home. When my child who is 4 does homework such as learning letters or numbers an ordinary approach usually ends in frustration and lack of concentration as she does not feel interested, however when we use a creative approach the learning feels less like learning but more   like a fun activity but with the same education outcome. Writing letters using play- dough or in mud, or instead of using maths on paper or in a book using objects to identify number created more of an interest and excitement in the learning. Hicks(2015) believes that a specific skill can become dated and lack in value for the future where as the ability to be creative can be adaptable, the future is unpredictable for students due to social and economical changes, therefore t...

WHAT ARE THE PURPOSES OF PRIMARY EDUCATION? 10 December, 2017 The purposes of primary education should be to create confident healthy individuals, who are prepared for higher and further education and future life. Primary education should aim to provide an exciting and creative way of learning to engage a young learner’s attention and mind to instil a passion and interest in the learner for a successful learning journey. I feel a creative way of learning and teaching is a more engaging approach for the learner and teacher, using collaboration and different teaching styles including digital competency can prepare students for the ever-changing world of technology and social changes. Although primary education should start to prepare children for secondary learning, more focus should be on the present education taking place at primary stage as there is huge development potential, children leaving primary school however be equipped with the skills for primary school but al...

“Throughout our discussion of curriculum, we stress that children ‘s learning does not fit into subject categories”. (Plowden, 1967, p.555). The current curriculum is outdated and over due a renovation to bring it up to date, to coincide with the modern world we live in today. Essential features of the curriculum were devised in 1988, and fail to reflect the world wide web. (Donaldson,2015). With Donaldson set to change Wales curriculum in 2021, the new curriculum is based on the six areas of learning and experience. These are literacy and communication, maths and numeracy, science and technology, expressive arts, health and wellbeing, and humanities. It will also see in the induction of three cross-curricular responsibilities. ·          Literacy- competence in literacy, spoken word, syntax, and spelling. ·          Numeracy- including arithmetical and data handling skills. ·   ...

In this blog post we shall be exploring why cross curricula is so important within education establishments and the benefits the students get from it. We need to ask ourselves as professionals do we stick to the traditional way of teaching or do we need to utilise and make links with other subjects to help the pupils.   According to (Plowden, 1967, p555) Stress that children’s learning does not fit into subject categories’ and this was 50 years ago and only know are we getting to a point where we are linking other subjects together and this is where Donaldson who is recommending the Welsh government on curriculum reforms to improve our educational system here in Wales and wants to see more cross-curricula links within todays education to prepare them better for the workplace of the future. This is why Eisner (1996) blame this way of thinking for a diminution of children’s knowledge of which is very true and could have been rectified some decades back and not left until now. Ot...