--- title: "Shaping Us campaign" url: "https://staidansblackburn.co.uk/news/2023-03-22-shaping-us-campaign" school: "St. Aidan’s Primary School – A Church of England Academy" --- # Shaping Us campaign ![](https://files.schudio.com/st-aidan-s-primary-school/images/news/shaping_us1(4).png) 22 March 2023 #### **Shaping Us is a campaign led by The Princess of Wales that aims to raise awareness of the critical importance of early childhood in shaping the adults we become.** During our first five years of life, more than a million connections between the nerve cells in our brain are formed every second. Our experiences, relationships, and surroundings during this time fundamentally shape the rest of our lives – affecting everything from our mental and physical wellbeing to the way we parent our own children. Despite this, one in three people know almost nothing about how we develop during our early years, according to new research by the Centre for Early Childhood. 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