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Prism study

PRISM stands for PRemature Infants Skills in Mathematics. The children who will take part in the study will now be 8-9 years-old.

Each year, around 10,000 babies are born very premature (before 32 weeks of gestation or more than 8 weeks before the due date) in England. Being born so early can have long lasting effects on a child’s development, particularly on children’s learning and achievement in school. We are a group of researchers who are working to find out about any lasting effects children born premature may experienc

e, so that we can try to make helpful programmes for this group of children. We are specifically interested in understanding how children who were born very prematurely get on in school, and we are focusing on maths. We want to assess maths skills in approximately 80 children who were born very premature and 80 children who were born around their due-date (called full term).

10/10/2021

Is your school Prem Aware?

Through training, awareness and feedback, The Smallest Things Prem Aware Award supports schools to help children born prematurely.

Read more - thesmallestthings.org/prem-aware-award
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12/09/2021

Calling all teachers 📣

Did you know that on average two to three children in every classroom were born prematurely?
And that while being born early does not mean a child will have special educational needs (SEN), it does increase the chances?

Our Award Scheme, through the FREE Online PRISM training, supports teachers and schools to better understand how prematurity can affect development, to recognise additional learning needs and helps all children born prematurely to reach their full potential. 🟣

Find out more - thesmallestthings.org/prem-aware-award

07/06/2020

16/04/2020

The Smallest Things Charity - for Premature Babies & Their Families are there to provide help and support to parents if you have any worries on school offer day or about schooling for your preterm born child in general. Their contact details are below.

We know how nerve racking primary school offer day can be - we’ve been there!

We’ll continue working with schools over the coming months, promoting the PRISM learning resources for education professionals, supporting parents to share their stories and details of preterm birth and ensuring the best possible outcomes for children born too soon.

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/helm/dev/prism/

17/01/2020

This recent post from The Smallest Things links to an article raising awareness that children born preterm may have special educational needs later in life. It also refers to our our new e-learning resource designed to help teachers understand the link between preterm birth and additional learning needs and how to support preterm born children in the classroom. Parents might find it helpful too! It’s completely free to use at www.pretermbirth.info thanks to funding from children’s charity Action Medical Research

Children born prematurely can be missed by teachers, the parent of a preterm child tells the Children in Scotland annual conference in Edinburgh

11/12/2019

We are so pleased to let you know that our free ‘Preterm Birth Information for Education Professionals’ is back online! Apologies if you have had trouble accessing it the last few days, we hope the issues with the university server are all resolved now. Take a look at www.pretermbirth.info to find out how to support preterm born children in the classroom.

Preterm Birth Information for Education Professionals Welcome to the Preterm Birth Information for Education Professionals home page. These five learning resources have been developed to improve your knowledge and confidence in supporting prematurely born children in the classroom. Please navigate t...

09/12/2019

Apologies if you are having trouble accessing our preterm birth information for education professionals resource (www.pretermbirth.info). The University of Nottingham are experiencing technical issues and are working to resolve it ASAP. Hopefully it will be back online soon.

26/09/2019

Congratulations to Professor Neil Marlow of the PRISM Study team on receiving the Bliss Lifetime Achievement Award for his lifelong contribution to neonatalogy. Well done Neil 👏🏆👏

05/09/2019

We hope everyone is settling into their new class this term and has a good year! If your child was born preterm and needs some extra support in school, take a look at our new resource to show teachers how preterm birth can affect children’s learning and how teachers can support children and young people in school. It’s completely free for parents and teachers to use online at pretermbirth.info thanks to funding from the charity Action Medical Research.

06/06/2019

Just out today - evidence that our new e-learning resource for education professionals improves teachers’ knowledge of the long term consequences of preterm birth and their confidence in supporting preterm born children’s learning. You can read the article for free here: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/9/6/e029720.full.pdf. The e-learning resource can also be accessed online for free at pretermbirth.info thanks to funding from Action Medical Research

31/05/2019

Should teachers be told if a pupil was born preterm? Listen to Professor Samantha Johnson of the PRISM Studies team discussing this and the development of the new PRISM study e-learning resource for teachers in a recent podcast in the Tes

Should teachers be informed if students in their class were born preterm? Professor Samantha Johnson gives her view

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