our partnership with the dog mentor
Your school dog could now be helping
children learn geography skills!
The Dog Mentor and B&C Educational are joining together for a new initiative, bringing geography to life whilst harnessing the benefits of a school dog.
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What is The Dog Mentor?
The Dog Mentor is a company that has built upon the benefits of the human-animal bond by providing children positive experiences with dogs that can help them educationally, developmentally, emotionally and socially. The aim of The Dog Mentor is to create a completely universal offering for your school setting, which provides social, emotional and mental health well-being but also covers aspects of curriculum-based education in order to improve educational outcomes. Its primary objective in schools is to cultivate a supportive and inclusive environment, which:
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• Promotes emotional resilience
• Equips children with tools to manage stress and anxiety
• Boosts academic achievement
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Benefits of using trained dogs in schools
Cognitive Development
Improves cognitive development – companionship with a dog stimulates
memory, problem-solving and game-playing skills, and improves reading skills.
Emotional Intelligence
Improves emotional development – a school dog improves self-esteem,
acceptance from others and lifts mood, often with much laughter and fun.
Dogs can also teach compassion and respect for other living things, as well as
relieving anxiety.
Physical Improvements
Enhances physical development – interaction with a dog reduces blood
pressure, provides tactile stimulation, assists with pain management, provides
What is Dography?
Having seen the benefits of using trained dogs first-hand in schools and with many positive testimonials from teachers having experienced a school dog, the team at The Dog Mentor are now looking to expand their activities to incorporate some elements of the formal curriculum.
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Dography, which brings your Dog Mentor and geography together, is the first initiative which will see six geography units that fully incorporate your own Dog Mentor.
These units will be based on your school, its grounds, the surrounding environment and your local area and, of course, feature your dog.
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The first six units are:
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• Young Geographers (EYFS)
• My School (KS1)
• My School Grounds (KS1)
• Surrounding Environment (KS1)
• Fieldwork Skills and Practice (KS1)
• The Local Area (KS2)
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Based on B&C Educational’s trusted Key to the National Curriculum geography resources, these units will be National Curriculum compliant whilst embracing the positives of dog mentorship and tailored specifically for your school.
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