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Dave Van Kann was recently appointed, effective 1 April 2023, as lector of Learning to Move in and around the School within the Fontys Move to Be lectorate. On Thursday afternoon, 30 March 2023, he will be officially inaugurated and deliver his inaugural lecture. This public lecture will be preceded by the symposium ‘Moving in and around the School.’
A ban on mobile phones in the classroom would have the support of a majority of parents. However, a majority does not support a ban on mobile phones throughout the entire school. This is shown by a short survey among 500 parents with a child at primary school (aged 10 or older) or secondary school, who are members of the National Parent Panel of Ouders & Onderwijs.
Are you a physical activity professional and would you like to stay up to date with the latest developments in physical education? Then come to the KVLO study day ‘2+1+2 for all physical activity professionals’ on 19 April 2023 in The Hague! The programme includes many practical workshops on physical education, emerging sports, physical activity in the playground and after-school physical activity. The 2+1+1 model, which is becoming increasingly popular, will be explored in depth. So don’t miss it and register soon!
In addition to school, many children spend time at after-school care. So this is the perfect place to go outside and have fun. But do the children at your after-school care spend enough time outdoors? Do you sometimes find it difficult to think of things you can do outside? Or are you enthusiastic, but unable to get your colleagues on board? Then the Outdoor Play Toolkit for After-School Care is for you!
Getting enough exercise has a positive influence on pupils’ social, cognitive and motor development. Children who get enough exercise at a young age benefit from the advantages of a more active lifestyle later in life. Unfortunately, children’s physical fitness and motor skills have deteriorated significantly in recent years. A dynamic school day can help primary school pupils exercise more. Johan Koedijker, a specialist in learning to move better at the Knowledge Centre for Sport & Exercise, explains the dynamic school day.
This has once again become particularly relevant because of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Traumatic events such as a war, the natural disaster in Turkey and Syria, or violence in the neighborhood can also affect your group or class. Students may bring images, opinions, and feelings with them to school. What they see and hear on the News and the Youth News, on social media, and in their surroundings elicits reactions. This calls for attentiveness, conversation, empathy, time, and space in everyday teaching. How do you, as an education professional at primary or secondary school, deal with sadness, fear, and unrest about traumatic events? The Netherlands Youth Institute offers eight tips.
This year, the Week of Spring Fever takes place from 20 to 24 March 2023. For primary and special education schools, this project week is a great opportunity to start lessons on the theme of Relationships and sexuality, or to devote extra attention to relationship and sex education. This year, the Week of Spring Fever focuses on the question ‘What do I like?’
Joris Maier, JOGG coordinator in Buren and Neder-Betuwe, is once again connecting the local schools, sports providers and community sports coaches this year. In the two municipalities, 20 primary schools are taking part in the King's Games, involving more than 2,000 pupils.
The Green Revolution Zeeland Schoolyards voucher scheme is now open! Around 40 Zeeland schools have received vouchers in recent years to make their schoolyards greener. In 2023, funding is available to green eight schoolyards in Zeeland. The voucher gives schools a helping hand in creating their green schoolyard. Schools can submit their application until 12 March 2023.
Would you like a healthy lifestyle to become the norm at school and involve pupils or students in this? The new discussion cards from Gezonde School make this possible by engaging them in a conversation or debate. This way, you can find out what they want and why they consider certain things important.
On average, every class has three children with a chronic condition. That is why the Stichting Zorgeloos naar School foundation developed a free game: Backwards Forwards.
IVN Nature Education wants to find out how connected Dutch children are to nature. That is why IVN wants at least 1,000 Grade 8 pupils to take a fun NQ self-test in the classroom to measure their nature intelligence (NQ). The results will give IVN insight into the state of nature education in the Netherlands.
The Lunchbox without Junk concept has received the Healthy Innovation Award from Foodlog and FoodPersonality as the best healthy initiative of 2022. Jenna Davies, JOGG coordinator for the municipality of Dordrecht and regional coordinator for Zuid-Holland Zuid, and Nikita Verkaart, micro-marketing coordinator at Lidl Netherlands, jointly accepted the award.
More and more families are experiencing financial difficulties. But how can you recognize the signs of poverty among children and families at your school? And what can you, as a professional, do to support them? The NJi is organizing an online discussion about poverty for professionals in education.
What do parents think about a healthy lunch at school? Opinions are divided. 44% of parents support it, while 38% are opposed. This is one of the conclusions from the study conducted by Ouders en Onderwijs together with the journalistic investigative platform Pointer (KRO-NCRV) among parents in the National Parent Panel.
For young people, being food-literate is becoming increasingly important: having the knowledge and skills that enable them to choose healthy and sustainable options. Now and in the future. At every street corner, they are confronted with unhealthy temptations, which are often cheaper than healthy products. In addition, the impact of our dietary patterns on the environment is becoming increasingly visible. To meet these challenges, the food curriculum framework has been updated by the Netherlands Nutrition Centre and the national centre of expertise for curriculum development, SLO.
The RIVM Centre for Healthy Living has once again recognised Wageningen University & Research’s Smaaklessen educational programme. The educational programme, which is assessed every five years for quality, feasibility and effectiveness, has received the recognition ‘First indications of effectiveness’. The recognition was awarded on the basis of results from three Dutch effect studies.
Professionals in education, welfare and care know how to make sexuality a topic for discussion and help young people recognise and respect each other’s wishes and boundaries. This is one of the objectives of the Action Programme to Tackle Sexually Transgressive Behaviour and Sexual Violence. The government sent it to the House of Representatives on 13 January.
On Wednesday, 5 April, the annual education conference With All Due Respect! will take place. This year, the conference organised by the School & Safety Foundation will be fully hybrid. You can therefore choose whether to come to Gooiland in Hilversum or follow the online programme. With All Due Respect! is the perfect opportunity to refresh your knowledge of social safety in education! This year’s theme is connection. The conference chair is Splinter Chabot.
Always at hand on a tablet or phone; the OK-GEZOND app from BOinK and HvA offers parent-child activities and practical tips on healthy eating and drinking, getting enough exercise and sleeping well for toddlers. The app was developed for childcare professionals and is a simple tool for working with parents on a healthy lifestyle for their toddlers.
From 11 January through 28 February, all primary schools can register for the 11th edition of the King’s Games, taking place on Thursday 20 April and Friday 21 April. This year’s theme is: ‘1-2, everyone takes part’. Former Wimbledon winner Richard Krajicek, Anna Maria van Dillen from special education school Olivijn, and television presenters Britt Dekker and Ron Boszhard officially launched the King’s Games on Wednesday 11 January at special education school Olivijn in Almere. The title of the new King’s Games song by Kinderen voor Kinderen was also announced in a rap.
This year too, the Netherlands Youth Institute (NJi) is organizing the so-called Solutions Labs together with partners. These working sessions are intended for everyone involved in care in education or education in care. How do you organize and finance education and care for children with very intensive care needs in education? This year, the NJi is organizing three sessions focusing on three building blocks. The first is on 14 February.
Four out of five primary schools measure their pupils’ motor skills. In addition, 70 percent of municipalities now use an instrument to measure motor skills. This is a significant increase compared with previous years. This is shown by the study ‘The use of instruments to measure motor skills by schools and municipalities’ by Maxine de Jonge and Marthe Westerbroek of the Mulier Institute.
On 10 January, registration opened for the fourth edition of the annual Cooking in the Classroom event, part of the Smaaklessen programme. During this event, which will take place from 27 to 29 March this time, pupils in years 6, 7 and 8 will cook under the guidance of a chef. Throughout the country, chefs visit schools to teach pupils more about taste, cooking and the culinary profession.
Starting Monday, January 9, more than 4,800 childcare locations across the country will be placing a strong focus on outdoor play. With the second nationwide edition of the ‘Heart of Winter’ campaign, IVN Nature Education and Humankind childcare and development aim to make playing outside in winter feel just as natural. Many children would play outside more if they could meet friends there and if activities suited to their age were organized. With a series of sparkling winter activities, childcare locations throughout the Netherlands are taking action to make this happen.
Primary school De Wouter in America, Limburg, has created a picking garden as part of its school grounds. Here, green-fingered pupils can indulge their passion, while the other children can enjoy it too, thanks to the edible greenery growing there (strawberries and raspberries). How does this picking garden tie in with the lessons taught by the teachers at primary school De Wouter?
How do you respond to students’ questions about sex? What do you do if you hear a pupil or student using the word ‘gay’ as a swear word? How do you have a conversation in class about a nude photo that has been shared without permission? The interactive videos How do you handle it? address these dilemmas and how you, as a teacher, can deal with them.
Do you work in or with special education? For the development of teaching materials about healthy and sustainable eating, the Louis Bolk Institute is looking for education professionals who would like to contribute ideas or test teaching materials. The teaching materials are intended for pupils in clusters 3 and 4 of special education and secondary special education.
When Anton Hermans came to Saba in 2014, schools were not yet very aware of the importance of a healthy lifestyle. On Saba, the Public Entity works with JOGG to create a healthy environment. Together with the Public Health Department and the schools, efforts are being made to create a healthier school environment. In the meantime, significant steps have already been taken in the right direction. One of the most important is the growing awareness of why this is important.
At the beginning of the school year, in September, Stichting School & Veiligheid once again organised Anti-Bullying Week, this year with the theme ‘Just Kidding! Surely That’s Allowed?!’ During that one week, an enormous number of schools watched the opening video and carried out lessons. But what actually remains afterwards? Shouldn’t we remain actively committed to preventing bullying every year, throughout the entire year?