Our Brain at Work, Rest and Play

The Developing Child Centre (TDCC) is pleased to invite parents, educators, and professionals to an insightful webinar titled Our Brain at Work, Rest and Play, presented by Debbie Gilmore, Executive Director of the Arrowsmith Program.

This session will explore how the brain supports learning, attention, problem-solving, and everyday functioning, while also highlighting the important role of rest, play, and routine in healthy brain development. Participants will gain practical, brain-based insights into how children can be supported more effectively across home and school environments.

Objectives

By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Understand how the brain supports learning, attention, problem-solving, and daily activities.

2. Explore how rest, play, and routine contribute to healthy brain development and cognitive growth.

3. Learn how parents and teachers can support children’s brain-based learning in everyday situations.

Key Learning Areas

This webinar will highlight six important learning areas that shape a child’s development and learning:

Brain and Learning
Understand how learning is connected to the way different brain functions work together, influencing how children process, respond, and engage in daily learning experiences.

Attention and Memory
Explore the important role of attention and memory in helping children focus, retain information, and participate more successfully in learning.

Thinking Skills
Learn more about the cognitive processes involved in reasoning, problem-solving, understanding, and making connections in everyday learning situations.

Rest, Play, Routine
Recognize how rest, play, and routine support healthy brain development and help children regulate, engage, and prepare for learning.

Cognitive Growth
Gain insight into how cognitive abilities develop over time and how the brain continues to grow through meaningful experiences and support.

Stronger Learning Foundations
Understand the importance of strong cognitive foundations in supporting long-term progress in learning, independence, and everyday functioning.

An Arrowsmith-Informed Perspective

Through an Arrowsmith-informed perspective, this webinar will help participants understand that learning is shaped by underlying cognitive functions such as attention, memory, reasoning, and processing. It will also highlight how everyday experiences like rest, play, and routine support healthy brain development, while emphasizing the importance of strengthening cognitive foundations to support long-term learning, growth, and independence. 

Learn more about the Arrowsmith Program.

About the Speaker

Debbie Gilmore has enjoyed a varied career in educational leadership, and now is helping bring about an educational revolution.  As teacher, literacy adviser, assistant principal, principal and administrator, Debbie always sought programs that were innovative, inclusive and made a meaningful impact in the lives of students. When she found Arrowsmith, it transformed her understanding of what was possible. After spearheading an initiative to bring Arrowsmith to schools in Sydney’s Catholic Education Office where she was Head of Diverse Learning, Debbie joined Arrowsmith as Executive Director.  Since 2013 she has been leading the strategic growth and development of Arrowsmith, and every day speaks to educational leaders about the power and potential that cognitive programming can have in deepening life long learning experiences. As a parent she has seen first hand how Arrowsmith can transform the brains and lives of students and the community that surrounds them.

Join us for this valuable session and gain practical insights into how understanding the brain can support children’s learning, development, and everyday success.

Register now.