by dbak580 | Jun 13, 2023 | Healthy Weight, News, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning
Prime is an energy drink owned by YouTubers Logan Paul and KSI who between them have 78 million followers. Their latest product Prime is banned in Aotearoa because it contains an illegally high amount of caffeine. But that hasn’t stopped children and adolescents...
by dbak580 | Jun 5, 2023 | Big Data, News, Newsletter, Peer reviewed publication, Successful Literacy and Learning
This study published in ASHA Publications aimed to elucidate the nature of the relationship between the development of decoding and encoding skills in the first year at school. The foundational literacy skills of one hundred eighty 5-year-old children were examined on...
by dbak580 | May 30, 2023 | Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Updates
Beyond Smokers and their Lungs “With complex modelling of new data, we are further analysing the decline in the number of preschool children who are overweight and obese. This decline is unlike any other country in the world and importantly has occurred almost...
by dbak580 | May 25, 2023 | Events, News, Peer reviewed publication, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning, Updates
NZ literacy rate in spotlight as principal calls out ‘malpractice’ | Paddy Gower Has Issues The first episode in TV Three’s new show “Paddy Gower Has Issues” featured our very own a Better Start Literacy Approach. Interviewed on the show...
by dbak580 | May 23, 2023 | Healthy Weight, News, Newsletter, Peer reviewed publication, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning, Updates
A Better Start’s National Science Challenge Board Co-Chair, Dr Pat Tuohy attended this important event, in show of A Better Starts support of the work that Cure Kids has done in putting together this in-depth report which highlights the work that needs to be...
by dbak580 | May 16, 2023 | News, Peer reviewed publication, Successful Literacy and Learning
A Better Start to Reading “It’s fantastic to see research developed through our Challenge 10-year programme of research having such a positive impact on children’s learning across Aotearoa New Zealand,” says the Challenge Director Wayne Cutfield. The A Better...
