Brain development: Understanding Key Differences Between Adult and Child Brains
Did you know that a child’s brain is not fully developed till the age of 25? One of the key points I emphasise with parents I coach at Mind Stati...
Emotional Regulation in Children
Emotional regulation is at the heart of growing up. How children learn to handle and show their feelings is key to getting along with others, bounc...
How to Write Your Name in Braille
Learn how to write your name in braille, a different way of writing the alphabet for the blind and visually impaired who rely on touch as a means o...
The Benefits of Digital Play in Early Years Learning
In today's early years learning landscape children have access to devices and content to enable multi-sensory exploration through digital play. Dig...
The wood wide web: How trees talk to each other
The wood wide web, coined and discovered by Dr. Suzanne Simard in 1990, is the intricate process of how trees talk and help each other. More specif...
Ada Lovelace: The World's First Computer Programmer
Ada Lovelace is widely known as the world's first computer programmer. In the 1840s, she wrote the world’s first machine algorithm for an early com...
10 Future Jobs of 2040
The world as it is now is changing and our society will change with it. But what sort of jobs will our children have in this future? In an age of i...
Let's Bee Kind: 10 Ways to Help Bees
Bees are in serious decline in the UK and globally. We have already lost around 13 species and another 35 are currently at risk, but we have 10 way...
How do bees communicate? It's un-BEE-lievable!
Bees are intelligent, and like other intelligent creatures they communicate with one another. Different creatures communicate differently, for inst...
What makes a flower? The four key parts of flower anatomy.
What is a flower? A flower is the reproductive structure of flowering plants. Many flowers that rely on pollinators, such as birds, butterflies and...
EGG-straordinary penguins and their eggs
The life of a penguin is not an easy one. Living outside in freezing -60 degrees weather and keeping an eye out for predators is as difficult as it...
Can penguin poo tell the effects of climate change?
Can penguin poo tell the effects of climate change? Scientists from the Milner Centre for Evolution have just returned from a month-long expedition...