Health and Wellbeing: Growing and developing, physical and emotional wellbeing (Health and Wellbeing, Child Development, Inclusive Practice)

Children's health is an integral part of their emotional, mental and social wellbeing.

Health and Wellbeing invites educators to reflect on the three main strands of growing and developing, physical wellbeing and emotional wellbeing. Where the environment and practices support wellbeing of children, families and educators, then the provision for children will be better and more successful in its outcomes. This resource aims to address this by exploring the issues and providing checklists that consider the best possible experiences and outcomes for the child, alongside the experiences and outcomes for families and educators.

Anne O'Connor has more than twenty years' experience and leadership in nursery, infant and primary schools in inner London. She developed and coordinated one of the first Early Years Units in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom, in which nursery and reception age children were fully integrated. A freelance educational consultant since 2000, Anne is a regular contributor to the early childhood magazine, Nursery World.