Healthy Minds And Bodies For The Whole Family

Building Leaning Power aims to help children become better learners both in school and in life by cultivating habits and attitudes that will enable them to face situations that they are not familiar with calmly, confidently and creatively. As a result, students who are more confident in their own learning ability learn faster and learn better. They concentrate more, think harder and find learning more enjoyable. For so many years now, there has been one initiative after another introduced into schools, many of which just have not worked. ‘Learning to learn’ is one such initiative. Research has shown that if students are taught these skills in isolation, as a set of discrete lessons, the students do not transfer the skills they have been taught into other classes or in their lives outside school. What Building Learning Power does is include the HOW of learning along with the WHAT of learning – they aren’t separate.

BLP aims to form habits through the ‘4Rs’ – Resilience, Resourcefulness, Reciprocity and Reflectiveness. The WHAT of the lesson might be learning how to write a set of instructions. The HOW of the lesson might be ‘distilling’ (one of the learning muscles) information that they have gleaned from their previous research. Eventually, these learning capacities become habits allowing the students to become extremely effective learners and capable of taking on the needs of the 21st century workplace. This cannot be said for far too many students these days because too many education systems are not taking on board the fact that life is so much more complex now, and too many students just cannot cope. BLP ensures that they are ready for the tests of life rather than a life of tests.

 

Web: www.buildinglearningpower.com

Take A Time Out: Pure Yoga

Multi-Sport is an organisation that caters for expatriate families living in Shanghai. They strive to develop and deliver physical education to international clients in a safe, supportive and motivational environment. Multi-Sport can help to make physical exercise, and leading a healthy lifestyle, fun! As we know, children have an endless supply of energy, and by giving them an outlet to burn this energy in a positive sporting way, it makes for healthy, happy and less demanding children at home!

 

Qualified physical education coaches, all of whom come from international backgrounds and specialise in specific areas of sport, run Multi-Sport classes. All classes are taught in English and primarily aimed at children aged between three to 12 years. Multi-Sport also collaborates with leading international schools, clubs and residences to provide a wide selection of in-house programmes.

 

Multi-Sport’s systematic approach to learning has been endorsed by a number of professional sporting bodies such as the British Gymnastics Association and the Amateur Swimming Association to provide internationally recognised awards. These progressive award schemes offer an excellent opportunity for children to attain an internationally recognised standard, which is a great incentive and motivator for participants.

 

Along with swimming and gymnastic classes, Multi-Sport also provides coaching in trampolining, basketball, Multi-Sport (a signature programme combining a wide range of popular games and activities), tennis, football and adult fitness.