Young People, Mental Health and Reading: A Training Session with Nicola Morgan
We are really pleased to announce a fantastic training opportunity with Nicola Morgan!
Nicola is an internationally-acclaimed author who focuses on pupil wellbeing, including how stress impacts performance, effects of screens, social media and reading for pleasure. She has spent more than 20 years studying the subjects she now writes and talks about and can make highly intelligent and perceptive connections between neuroscience, psychology, observation and the lived experience of the thousands of children, young adults, parents and professionals she has engaged with.
“Nicola Morgan has that rare gift of being able to communicate science and make it fun.” Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, University of Cambridge
You can find out more about Nicola at www.nicolamorgan.com
This will be a popular event so please book your place ASAP using our online form here
Event Information:
Date: Thursday 3 October 2019
Venue: Northgate House Conference Centre, Warwick, CV34 4JH
Outline of the session:
12.30-13.30: Arrival and buffet lunch
13.30-15.00: The science of stress, for young people and the rest of us, including the contribution of screen time. Nicola will bring you the well-researched science, going behind media headlines to find out what we do and don’t know about stress in our modern world, offline and online. At the end of the session you will understand the problems and challenges and improve your insight into how things are for many people of all ages, with a special focus on young people in your care.
15:00 – 15:30: Break
15.30-16.45: The important role of Reading for pleasure in wellbeing and success. This session takes reading for pleasure as one strategy for wellbeing and looks at the fascinating science and evidence for choosing (and funding) this as a powerful tool for success in schools. How can we support young people (and the rest of us!) to read more for pleasure and why should we? Do our reading choices matter? Fiction or non-fiction? Simple or complex? Digital or print?
Costs:
Book by Friday 26 July to benefit from our early bird rate:
WSLS subscriber: £55.00
Non subscriber: £65.00
After the 26 July tickets will cost the following:
WSLS subscriber: £75.00
Non subscriber: £85.00
*Please note that a cancellation fee will apply to all tickets. If you are unable to attend the session, 50% of the ticket fee will be charged up to four weeks before the event. After this point, tickets will then become non-refundable.
This will be a popular event so please book your place ASAP using our online form here
Please get in touch with us if you would like any further information: schoolslibraryservice@warwickshire.gov.uk