Learning Resource Centre 2020

CHILDREN’S LEARNING

& DEVELOPMENT

WIDER RESOURCES FOR R6 STUDENTS All available from the

LEARNING RESOURCE CENTRE

Room by Emma Donoghue

An extraordinary story of a mother and child, kept in isolation, and the desire for, and the price of, freedom.

Stargazing for Beginners by Jenny McLachlan

Science geek Meg is left to look after her little sister when her free-spirted mum leaves suddenly to follow her dreams. Heart warming, heart breaking, but most of all funny.

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

As a custody battle grips the town, secrets embedded in the past are revealed to devastating consequences. A page turner of epic proportions.

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret

Atwood

Two sides of motherhood are shown in this

dystopian classic. Heroine Offred’s sole

function in the Republic of Gilead is to breed,

yet flashbacks to her past remind her of the

joys of motherhood and family life.

Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo

Yejide is desperate for a baby and will do whatever it takes to get pregnant and at the same time save her marriage. When a stranger arrives at her door everything changes...

Fiction Websites

Podcasts

www.nct.org.uk/

www.healthtalk.org/

www.earlyyearseducator.co.uk/

www.nurseryworld.co.uk/

www.motherandbaby.co.uk/

www.baby-magazine.co.uk/

BBC Sounds The Baby Club — Jennie McAlpine hosts light informative conversations about everything baby.

My Baby & Me—Jane Garvey and her guests share their advice and experience along the path of pregnancy and early parenthood.

Inspiration

“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”

Nelson Mandela

Learning Resource Centre 2020

The school subscribes to JSTOR, a digital

library of academic journals, e-books

and primary sources.

Minimum grade required: GCSE grade 4 in English and

Maths.

Books you may find useful to broaden your childcare

and development knowledge will be found in all

libraries under the following Dewey Decimal

numbers:

Social issues: 360 Medicine & Health: 610

Obstetrics & Pediatrics: 618 Food & Drink: 641

Childcare: 649

Burns, Falls and Emergency Calls: First Aid for Babies and Children from Tots to Teens by Emma Hammett

The ultimate guide to the prevention and treatment of childhood accidents. 362

The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story by Christie Watson

An astounding account of a profession defined by acts of care, compassion and kindness. 610

Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950’s by Jennifer Worth

A community of nuns, midwives and families from the 1950’s East End, combine in this funny, disturbing and moving story. 942

Non-Fiction School Information

Magazines & Periodicals

BTEC Level 3 Extended Certificate

Subject Leader: Mrs K Gray

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay

Hilarious, horrifying and heart-breaking. Everything you want to know, and some things you didn’t, about life on a hospital ward. 610

What to Expect when you are Expecting by Heidi Murkoff

Must have information, advice, insight and tips into pregnancy. 649

Feeding your Baby & Toddler: The Complete Cookbook and Nutrition Guide by Annabel Karmel

Nutritional advice, tips on weaning and delicious baby and toddler recipes. 641

Fun Baby Learning Games: Activities to Support Development in Infants, Toddlers and Two-year olds

Fun activities to foster development in cognitive, motor, social and emotional skills, language, and self-esteem. 649

Tales of a Midwife by Maria Anderson

The highs and lows of life inside a maternity unit. 618

Mother & Baby

Practical and informative features on all aspects of pregnancy and parenting.

Baby

Latest guidance, trends, and tips for pregnancy , birth uinaceopical articles, cutting-edge research and brand new case studies, plus expert exam advice.

The Green Parent

With articles about every stage of a families life, with a natural parenting bias.

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