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During the pandemic, when schools were closed, children in Mauritius were able to access their lessons on a special channel on national TV.

We share our reflections on our work in 2020, how we’ve adapted and what we’ve achieved.

Latest news on teacher training and free Covid children's activities

To celebrate the festive season, we asked schools to get creative and design the official Partnership for Children Christmas Card for 2020.

We are very sad to announce the closure of our excellent partner organisation, The School Leadership Center of Trinidad and Tobago.

The Alex Panton Foundation, Partnership for Children’s licensed partner organisation in the Cayman Islands, launched Zippy’s Friends, Zippy’s Friends for Special Educational Needs and Apple’s Friends in October 2019.

Since its original development in 2013, Zippy’s Friends for Pupils with Special Educational Needs has been adopted by schools across the UK and by a number of Partnership for Children’s overseas partners.

As schools start to prepare for more children to return to the classroom, there is increasing concern about the impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had and continues to have on pupils mental wellbeing.

Partnership for Children is pleased to be supporting Place2Be’s Children’s Mental Health Week 2020 (3-9 February).

The Education Endowment Foundation have released a new guidance document which focuses on how primary schools can evaluate & develop a curriculum which supports all children’s social & emotional skills.

World Mental Health Day is marked on the 10th October each year to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world and to mobilise efforts in support of mental health.

We are delighted to be working in partnership with Oldham Council and Oldham Opportunity Area to offer our Skills for Life Programmes to primary schools in the region.

Charlotte Loveday in is a HLTA in Lincolnshire. She’s found lots of ways to make her Zippy’s Friends sessions a special part of the school day.

This was not the first time that the Prosecutor’s Office in Petrozavodsk in Karelia (north-west Russia) had tried to stop Zippy’s Friends in schools.

CASEL has analysed numerous research studies from around the world, producing solid evidence that promoting SEL also improves children’s academic performance.

From September 2019, our new Skills for Life programme, Passport will be available to UK schools.

We are delighted to be offering our Skills for Life mental health promotion programmes free of charge to primary schools across Dumfries and Galloway.

Here at Oldham Council, we are passionate about embedding The Whole School Approach to Emotional Health and Mental Wellbeing.

From September 2020 Relationship and Health Education will be compulsory in Primary Schools in England.

In March 2019, we visited Burpham Primary School CoIN Centre in Guildford to observe a Zippy's Friends for Pupils with Special Needs class.

Zippy has travelled far and wide over the past 20 years, since his first trip to Copenhagen to meet the pilot groups of Danish children.

Zippy’s Friends has been running in Slovakia since 2013, with the programme currently in its sixth school year.

Monday 4th February 2019 was the start of Children’s Mental Health Week and we were delighted to visit an Apple’s Friends class at Merton Park School in south London.

Partnership for Children is pleased to be supporting Place2Be’s Children’s Mental HealthWeek 2019 (4-10 February). 

Around 100 Apple’s Friends teachers from all over China gathered at Hongxinghai Primary and Middle School in Dalian to celebrate three hugely successful years.