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Plodder the Donkey
Plodder is slow and – well – plodding. A tad on the heavy side he can be a bit of a klutz – even when he’s doing the donkey work. Sometimes he finds it hard to do what the others do – like exercise and sports. Even though he knows deep down they’ll do him a power of good. But the other Glugs are usually happy to encourage him and help him out, (although they might have a little giggle first, which they later regret). He’s also Nabbit’s partner in mischief and is easily led. But Plodder has an amazing memory: he has total recall of every recipe in Snappy Glug’s Cook Book. Maybe because he loves his grub so much. Plodder is a walking encyclopaedia on growing, fertilising, harvesting and storing good food – even if he’d rather talk about it than do it!

  
 

Course Programme
DAY ONE | DAY TWO | DAY THREE

 

DAY ONE
(provisionally: 1000 - evening)
| March 8th | June 21st |

Welcome
warm-up, introductions, programme plan, group guidelines and expectations.

Family Partnership Model (FPM)
FPM framework, staging in the helping progress, qualities and skills.

Coffee Break

Healthy Living
exploration, demonstration of raising obesity issues with parent, and practice.

Lunch and Walk

Promoting Healthy Parenting
parenting styles, the influences of feelings on behaviour, key parenting strategies both generally and the prevention of obesity, demonstration and practice.

Tea Break

Medical Issues
trainee's questions linked to research-based talk by Professor Mary Rudolf.

Dinner

Meet the Glugs
introduction, toolkits and story enactment.


DAY TWO
(provisionally 0900 - 1600)
| March 9th | June 22nd |

Feedback from Day One

Healthy Eating Patterns
analysing mealtime video and practice in sharing observations with parent.

Coffee Break

Food and Activity 1
analysing 3-day food/activity diary, practice to design a healthy child meal with parent.

Lunch and Walk

Food and Activity 2
exploration of activities and ways of encouraging parents to interact/play with/provide age-appropriate activities for baby/child, special emphasis on reducing TV time.

Time for Ourselves
exploration/reminder of importance of taking good care of ourselves - linking to need to encourage parents to do so, too.

Feedback
feedback forms, reflections on the two days, tasks/outlines for Day Three closing activities

DAY THREE – FOLLOW-UP DAY
(provisionally 0930 - 1630)
| March 28th | July 12th |

Welcome
warm-up, plan for the day

Review 1
detailed feedback on how training has informed work with parents since Day Two and aims for the day,

Coffee Break

Medical Issues
medical causes for obesity, syndromes, child protection issues, using thrive lives

Lunch and Walk

Exploring Particular Challenges
trainee's own identified challenges, to cover obese parents, parental mental health, engaging partners/extended families, learning difficulties, poverty, ethnic/cultural differences.

Feedback and closing activities