This lockdown being extended the level of mental, physical, and emotional issues for children and young people. Whilst everyone is still at home what can we, as an educational collective do to help these children? In addition to all the home challenges and Joe Wicks videos is there something else we can do?
Maybe our Online Active Maths lessons will help? We have been running these sessions from the first Lockdown in March, with fantastic feedback both in the fitness and activity but the growing confidence in maths.
“The number of children meeting the Chief Medical Officer’s guidelines (of taking part in sport or physical activity for an average of 60 minutes or more every day) has dropped from 47% to 19%. 43% are doing less than half an hour of activity and a worrying 7% are doing nothing.”
The Physical activity aspect has been know to attract children who wouldn’t voluntarily participate in a maths lesson, engage with a new set of children and grow children’s confidence and fitness levels increase.
“By September, inequalities will have created a 15-day gap in learning between rich and poor. It’s estimated that school closures are likely to reverse the many of the hard-won reductions in attainment gaps made since 2011 between disadvantaged children and their peers, with some believing that the gaps could widen by 36% (median estimate). Even with mitigatory steps in place, catch-up provision will be essential.”