The Sporting Recipe: A Young Athlete’s Game Plan for Good Food For young people who compete regularly, life can be busy. And when learning is built around a sporting calendar, making sure everything fits together can take a lot of planning. But amongst the training sessions, competitions and lessons, there's something else worth thinking about. Are young athletes fuelling both their sport and their growing bodies? A little about me I'm Elena, a sports nutritionist working in

Summer Fun with Games! Here is the last of our five summer games for this year's healthy August! Over the holidays, we’ve got five...

Two of the questions parents ask me most often when they are thinking about homeschooling is: “But how am I going to teach them everything?” and How much teaching do we parents really have to do? The answer is — you probably aren’t. Homeschooling does not mean recreating a classroom at the kitchen table, with a parent standing at the front explaining every lesson. Nor does it mean handing a child a pile of worksheets on Monday morning and hoping for the best. There is a much

Summer Fun with Games! This is the fourth week of our healthy August games, and that means long days full of sunshine and play! Over the...

Summer Fun with Games! It is the third week of the summer, and we have already learnt two games; Fruit Salad and Duck, Duck, Goose. Over...

Summer Fun with Games! It is our second week of Healthy August, over the holidays, we’ve got five exciting games to share that will get...

Summer Fun with Games! Summer is here again, and that means long days full of sunshine and play! Over the holidays, we’ve got five...

Let me tell you a true story. A few years ago, I worked in a very smart school where everyone had to follow the dress code very carefully. If female teachers wore sleeveless dresses, they had to wear a cardigan or blazer over the top. One summer day, the temperature went above 30°C. The classrooms felt like saunas, and the playground was so hot that just standing outside made you feel unwell. There was hardly any shade anywhere. In the morning, the headteacher sent a message

Don’t forget: gym day is tomorrow. It’s one of the best chances to spend time with other homeschoolers, make new friends, and enjoy some active games. We don’t want you to miss out, so make sure you’re there.

Week 13 - of our Rethinking School Series Last week, we explored the challenges ADHD students face when formal support ends, and how some...