Fundraising and donating to charity are great ways to build compassion, promote kindness and introduce children to the value and benefits of money. Use this list of 35 ideas to inspire your children to support the causes that they feel passionate about.
Share this video with teens embarking on their GCSE year. It’s packed full of Dr Weston’s top tips on organisation, revision and planning, which they can put to good use during the autumn term, in the run up to Christmas.
Without a little bit of planning, school holidays can whizz by. Encourage children to make the most of them by setting a few goals and noting down things that they’d like to do, experience or achieve. Have a family chat and use this template to work out what you’d all like to spend time doing over the break.
Dr Weston is joined by performance nutritionist, Dan Richardson, to discuss how young athletes can use sports nutrition to optimise their performance. This video is packed full of tips and recipe ideas, which will be useful for any family home, particularly those with children who do sport training frequently.
In this video, Dr Weston is joined by Holly Cram, former professional hockey player for Scotland and Great Britain, and founder of Aspire USA. Holly now works with young athletes from across the UK and Europe, helping them to access sport scholarship opportunities in the USA. Holly talks about optimal parenting strategies when nurturing young athletes, how to build resilience and tells us a bit about what getting a scholarship to the USA is really like!
A video for pastoral staff in schools, outlining 10 ways that Tooled Up can save you time and keep you up to date on the latest research evidence.
In this webinar, Dr Weston is joined by Susan Smith from All Things Careers to learn more about degree apprenticeships. What are they? Who are they aimed at? What sort of jobs can young people apply for? We discover that degree apprenticeships should be considered alongside the standard university route, as a fantastic way of gaining a degree (with tuition fees covered), whilst working for a huge variety of prestigious companies, in a multitude of different fields. One for all parents, teachers and 6th form pupils to watch as you start to plan the next few years.
Dr Kathy Weston, founder of Tooled Up Education, talks to Victoria Olubi-Ademosu, expert 11+ tutor and founder of The Tutoress.
When children are learning, they should ideally feel challenged, but not overwhelmed. It’s important to help them recognise how different types of tasks make them feel, what aspects of their learning they might need to challenge themselves further with, and also what kinds of things they find hard to approach, which could make them feel out of control or panicky, potentially reducing their levels of motivation. Encouraging them to reflect on their learning, how they feel and strategies they can use to help, is an important part of becoming an effective, metacognitive learner. Use this template to prompt discussion at school or at home.
Dr Weston talks with memory and metacognition expert, Julie Kettlewell, about the importance of teaching children metacognitive strategies and the potential impact on their educational outcomes. They clarify exactly what metacognition is, have an in depth discussion about best practice in the classroom and outline practical tips for teachers to employ. Julie talks us through various evidence-based strategies that educators can use flexibly in the classroom, in response to their pupils’ individual needs. This is a video version of our podcast interview with Julie.
