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Lifebuoy’s Soaper Heroes UK – for Primary Schools

 A fun, hygiene education campaign to teach children about the importance of handwashing!

Available now – PSHE Association quality assured resource, My Responsibilities & Handwashing, focusing on the importance of handwashing and our responsibility to keep ourselves and others healthy.

It is now more important than ever to ensure children fully understand the importance of regular handwashing with soap for 20 seconds– not just during the pandemic, but as part of their daily routine.  Use our fun experiments, lesson plans and reward-stickers to help, all available for free! Your school could join the thousands of schools who are already becoming Soaper Heroes.

 

Unilever Lifebuoy is the world’s leading health soap, and for over 100 years Lifebuoy has promoted better hygiene habits across the world. This year, Lifebuoy is bringing a national handwashing behaviour initiative as approved by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), intending to make handwashing fun and help pupils understand why it’s so important. Dr Ranj even makes an appearance with a virtual assembly video!

Lifebuoy Soaper Heroes brings you a whole host of FREE educational resources including stickers, posters and take-home materials, all tailored for each of the primary age groups.

Through these fun, curriculum-linked resources you will be able to teach your pupils lessons on the basics of handwashing, micro-organisms and our responsibilities to others. The kits include:

  • Posters and stickers for ALL registered schools*
  • Fun educational videos featuring animated characters
  • A catchy handwashing song
  • Interactive PowerPoint
  • Interactive quizzes- especially designed for self-directed and home study
  • Activity sheets and lesson plans with curricula links for England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
  • Comics, calendars, certificates and much more!

You will also have access to a host of videos with fun and engaging experiments, such as the ‘Soap and Pepper challenge’ and ‘How far does a Sneeze travel?’, plus many more videos that help bring the learning to life.

These resources will give you everything you need to teach a fun lesson about handwashing. But don’t just take our word for it, here’s what our teachers had to say:

“I used the 10 minute experiments with my new intake and they loved it. Haven’t stopped talking about it since, and the posters we have put in the bathrooms has them talking about Bish, Bash and Bosh and they link it back to the good handwashing experiment”

– Registered Soaper Heroes Teacher

“The materials for 5-8 year-olds seem really good and are age appropriate, with good progression from KS1 to KS2…I like the idea of using a 21-day calendar and rewarding hand-washing.”

– Clare Mercer, Lower KS2 Lead, Grove Street Primary School, Wirral, England

 

E bugE-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.

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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 MileThe 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     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you are unsure what to put in your child's lunchbox, the following guidelines will help you make the right healthy choices.  Click here to view the full article or visit http://www.enjoyhealthyeating.info for healthy eating advice for all the family.

Change 4 Life

On the Change4Life website there are a number of great resources with everything you need to support key healthy eating messages to children and their families. All of these resources can be used on your interactive whiteboard. Click here to visit the website.

Healthier snacks for kids 

Snack smart!

Half the sugar children are having comes from snacks and sugary drinks.

Too much sugar can lead to harmful fat building up inside and serious health problems, including painful tooth decay.

Fruit and vegetables are always the best choice, but if you're shopping for packaged snacks for your children, use this helpful tip: look for 100 calorie snacks, two a day max!

Click to view the article: Snack smart, from 'change 4 life'.

With 34% of children leaving primary school overweight, Change4Life  has launched a new campaign, “make a swap when you next shop”, encouraging families to cut back on sugar. To complement the national campaign, which has been in the media spotlight, Change4Life has created interactive lesson plans in partnership with teachers, qualified nutritionists and dental professionals. These English and Maths teaching resources support teachers to educate pupils about how much sugar is in their everyday food and drink, and to empower them to make healthier choices.

The resources are set in ‘Sugar Smart World’ and teach pupils that the number of extra sugar cubes they are consuming is enough to wrap around the world more than three and a half times. A cartoon- themed Science lesson plan also helps pupils understand the effects that sugar has on their teeth. Share these free resources with your networks to help tackle childhood obesity.

The new Change4Life resources include:English lesson plan PowerPoints and worksheets, including songs and a poster, comic strip and persuasive letter template for children aged 5 to 11 years old (school years 1 to 6)

 

 

 

  • Science lesson plans and PowerPoints for children aged 5 to 11 years old (school years 1 to 6), in which pupils set up a simple science experiment to observe how sugar can affect teeth, and learn about making better choices to stay healthy

 

 

  • recipe idea print-outs with healthy recipes from around the world for teachers to make with pupils and send home to families.

 

Don’t miss: 

  • Schools should watch out for Sugar Smart World take-home packs arriving via courier from mid-late January. The packs include fun and informative activities pupils can do at home with their families. Teachers will also be able to order more take-home packs from the School Zone in February.

Make sure you sign up to the School Zone to be the first to hear about new teaching resources launching later this year.

 

    

 

 

 

 



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