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Supporting premature children at preschool

 
 
  • Setting the scene: An early start in the neonatal unit – Emily Hills, Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist, Sensory Beginnings

  • The learning and educational outcomes of children born prematurely – Professor Samantha Johnson, Professor of child development, Leicester University

  • Development of PRISM and NEW Early Years module – Camilla Gilmore, Professor of mathematical cognition

  • Becoming Prem Aware – Catriona Ogilvy, founder/director, The Smallest Things 

  • Making a difference: Reflections from an Early Years practitioner – Erin Blessitt, Prem Aware Ambassador and Early Years Lead

  • The Early Years: a parent's perspective – Melisa Selvaratnam, Prem Aware Ambassador and mum to Oscar 

  • Panel discussion, hosted by Catriona Ogilvy, The Smallest Things


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How to support your premature child at school

 
 

• Watch Professor Samantha Johnson (Professor of Child Development) take you through her team’s latest research into educational needs and how schools can get ready to teach children born prematurely.

• Listen to founder Catriona Ogilvy introduce the Prem Aware Award for schools and explain how you can ask schools to apply.

• Hear from four teachers at Prem Aware schools explaining why they took the three steps to achieve the Prem Aware Award and how it's making a difference to their communities.

• Join director Sarah Miles in conversation with Nicola Scott as they discuss her career and experience of the education system following her premature birth at 24 weeks in 1989.

• Follow trustee Matt Wilkinson’s journey through the education system as a parent to two primary-aged children born prematurely.

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