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E-Bug
An exciting, fun and free health education resource for teachers and school aged children. The resources make learning about microbes, antibiotic resistance, and the spread, treatment and prevention of infection fun and accessible for all.
Free Key Stage 1 Resource Pack
Free Key Stage 2 Resource Pack
What is e-Bug training?
e-Bug is a free educational resource that makes learning about microbes, the spread, treatment and prevention of infection fun and accessible for all. e-Bug have resources for schools and communities.
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance recommends that schools should use e-Bug to teach about health topics such as hygiene and antibiotics. e-Bug have developed a face to face training session to train teachers and other health educators how to use the e-Bug resources.
Apps to manage your health
From comparing supermarket ingredients to easing your stress and anxiety, the apps featured in our new digital apps library can support your health and wellbeing.
Free school breakfast clubs boost maths and literacy results, study finds
Providing free breakfast clubs for primary schools in disadvantaged areas boosted maths and literacy results even among those pupils who didn’t attend, according to new research. Click here to view the full report from The Guardian
Early Hearing Identification Pathway
Behaviour: does the child watch what others are doing? Language and communication: is the child slow to learn? Responsiveness: does the child fail to respond when called?Volume: does the child talk too loudly? These are just a few of the signs that may indicate the child has hearing loss. Click below to view the following:
Hearing loss in children poster
Earlier detection of hearing concerns
Briefing: New approach for support and earlier detection of children's hearing concerns
Healthy Sleep
KS2 Lesson plan and Power point to help promote healthy sleep habits - Click here for Resources and Power point.
(31/03/20)
Are you looking for fun ways to keep your class moving at the end of term?
Inspired by characters from Disney Frozen, Disney and Pixar Toy Story and Marvel’s The Avengers, our new Shake Up toolkit contains fun and flexible bite-sized activities to help pupils enjoy getting active in the lead up to the summer holidays.
These exciting 10 Minute Shake Up activities can be used at any point in the school day to encourage pupils to get the recommended level of daily physical activity (at least 60 minutes per day).1 They can also help you deliver the new Relationships Education and Health Education curriculum.
So whether they want to learn to defend like Black Panther, jump like Bo Peep or heave ice like Kristof - download our toolkit today to get started.
Hearing Loss Poster Dynamic new resources for teachers will help build crucial life-skills for young people to boost their resilience and improve their mental health and wellbeing, as part of a new evidence-based programme for schools unveiled by Public Health England (PHE).Articles
Poverty blights schools for 'alarming' number of children, union warns.
More pupils are struggling in class because of hunger or mental or physical ill health related to poverty, say teachers. Click here to read the full article on www.tes.com
Children consuming online time 'like junk food' - Parents must intervene to stop their children overusing social media and consuming time online "like junk food", the children's commissioner has said.
Children 'exercise less as they get older' - The number of children doing an hour of exercise a day falls by nearly 40% between the ages of 5 and 12.
The Children's Society - We all need to keep poverty in mind
How to teach about sugar - Guardian article featuring links to a number of primary and secondary suitable resources
Activity icons 'could help healthy living' - People like to have information about their food - but working out how much exercise you'll need to do to burn off the calories in your favourite treat is not straightforward.
Public Health England - The link between pupil health and wellbeing and attainment
The Daily Mile - Active Gloucestershire - Thanks to funding from the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), primary schools across the county are being encouraged to improve the fitness, health and wellbeing of their pupils.
Think! Resources Road safety teaching resources for different age groups
Healthy breaks for schools
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