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Child Wellbeing

Support at Home-Partnership for Children

During the Covid-19 lockdown, we're all feeling less secure and missing our usual routines. But just as doing exercise improves physical health, you and your child can do activities to boost their mental health.

Partnership for children have put together a list of resources and activities. Use them to help your child find healthy ways to deal with their feelings and reactions to the Covid-19 situation. 

https://www.partnershipforchildren.org.uk/what-we-do/childrens-wellbeing-activities-for-teaching-staff-and-families.html

Covid-19 Resources to support Parents/Carers & Young People from the school nursing team

CAMHS Connect Having kids at home 

Emotion Coaching - CONNECT COVID19

Resources to support Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health for Young People - Coronvirus.docx

Resources and Support

We want to support parents and all educational settings to ensure children and young people’s education can continue.

For support for school-aged children, you should first contact your child’s school, who will be able to offer advice.

Available support includes:

  • a list of online educational resources which have been identified by some of the country’s leading educational experts to help pupils to learn at home
  • the BBC enhancing its education provision to include daily lessons, starting from 20 April 2020

For parents with children under 5 years old, who have not yet started school, the Department for Education (DfE)’s Hungry Little Minds campaign features tips and practical activities that you can do at home with children to support their early learning.

There are many simple ways to help your children learn and it does not have to feel like ‘learning’. Having everyday conversations, make-believe play, and reading together, all make a big difference to your child’s development.

You can find more ideas and content from the BBC’s Tiny Happy People campaign and the National Literacy Trust Family Zone.

Complimentary Mildfulness classes for Northamptonshire Primary schools

Original Mindfulness class:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey9MrVEumqc&t=100s

 

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Mindful walking class:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKgkilnTNYg&t=104s

 

Mindfulness Walk/Journey For Everyone

Learning how to be mindful and present when going on a walk or journey, suitable for children and adults. Enjoy the journey not just the end point/destination

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Mindful by a 6 year old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS-leP3cUFU&t=16s

 

Being Mindful and Calm by a 6year old - YouTube

Learn how to be mindful, grateful and stay calm in the words and demonstration of a 6 year old.

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Creative and relaxing fun

Color Our Collections offers free PDF downloads of coloring pages created from art in the collections of 117 institutions, including The New York Academy of Medicine Library, Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, RISD Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Art, The Canadian Canoe Museum and The Royal Horticultural Society libraries.

Got a 3D printer? You can download digital 3D models from NASA and print miniature satellites, landing sites, asteroids, spacecraft, spacesuits and astronaut tools.

Artist and writer Mo Willems (author of "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!") is hosting daily Lunch Doodles video sessions every weekday at 1 p.m. EDT. Each daily episode is accompanied by a downloadable activity page. 

What could be more soothing than watching jellyfish drifting serenely through the water? In "MeditOcean," the Monterey Bay Aquarium hosts a soothing 11-minute guided meditation video, featuring the undulating and graceful ballet of several aquarium jellyfish. 

Children in years 3 to 12 can learn to write their names in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, in this step-by-step guide from the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada.

A good story sounds even better when it's read in microgravity. Story Time from Space sends children's books to the International Space Station (ISS), where the books are read on video by astronauts as they orbit hundreds of miles above Earth.

Take a virtual field trip! More than 2,500 museums around the world have made their collections accessible online through Google Arts and Culture; you can also use Google to access virtual tours of national parks in the U.S. 

There are 10 live webcams at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where you can peek at sharks, sea otters, penguins and more. The San Diego Zoo has 11 animal webcams, Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute has four animal webcams, and there are six webcams at the Houston Zoo

And if you're feeling really adventurous, you can visit the surface of Mars in a spectacular high-resolution, 360-degree photo tour, created from images captured by the Curiosity rover