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 E-Bug Key Stage 3 Resource Pack

Free E-Bug Key Stage 4 Resource Pack

Public Health England - The link between pupil health and wellbeing and attainment A briefing for heads, governors and staff in educational settings. Research shows that education and health are closely linked. So promoting the health and wellbeing of students within schools and colleges has the potential to improve their educational outcomes.

NHS Life Check - advice on improving many aspects of health for individuals and whole families

For lesson plans covering the topics below please click on the picture above:

Shift: Product design for social change - Encouraging people to make positive life changes in small steps

Preventing Suicide

By now, virtually every parent and educator has heard about 13 Reasons Why, the popular Netflix drama that tells the story of high school student Hannah Baker and her decision to take her own life. The series has fuelled controversy, generated discussion, and prompted many questions: is the subject matter - including relationship troubles, cyber bullying, sexual assault, reputation slurs, depression, tone-deaf adults, self-doubt, and aloneness - too disturbing to talk about with youth?

Click here to download guidance from Living Works

What happens inside your body when you exercise?

Click on the above video from the British Heart Foundation, which describes what happens inside your body when you exercise:

Regular physical activity can lower your risk of heart and circulatory disease by 35% ......

Teaching first aid in 2018

We want to hear from you If one of your students has used first aid to help someone, we’d love to hear from you. Please email yourstory@redcross.org.uk .

Online resources Curriculum links Teach first aid

The Department of Education has launched a call for evidence as part of its consultation on PSHE and has asked teachers and students for their thoughts.

British Red Cross will be responding with evidence for first aid to feature as part of a new statutory curriculum.

We would encourage you to have your say before the consultation closes on 12 February. Have your say >

INTRODUCING OUR HEALTH UNCOVERED PODCASTS With Cel Spellman

Our new series of podcasts hosted by BBC Radio One presenter and actor Cel Spellman aim to get more young people in-tune with their health and wellbeing. Sexually transmitted infections, low-mood, self-harming, drugs, alcohol and everything else – Cel is lifting the lid on teenage health.

Life isn't always easy - and young people across the country have been helping us explore the issues that they’re facing today. From online bullying to sexual health, body image to mental health. They've been asking the questions you want to hear answered, joined by the health professionals that help young people, like school nurses and mental health specialists, to provide solutions, support and understanding.

Click here to view the full article where you will also be able to access ten audio shows, hosted by actor and BBC Radio 1 presenter Cel Spellman. The podcasts cover:

Series 1 - Episodes

#1 – Sexual health, STIs
#2 – Bullying, how it feels
#3 – Mental health, me and my emotions
#4 – Sexual health, are you ready?
#5 – Mental health, are you OK?
#6 – Grooming, could it happen to me?
#7 – Mental health, taking control
#8 – Mental health, asking for help
#9 – Social media, is this real life?
#10 – Substance misuse, know your choices

Gaming becomes the latest addiction BBC News 18.06.18

The World Health Organisation's classification of gaming disorder as a condition which is capable of debilitating addiction is an important moment in the shifting relationship between technology and society

Like gambling, gaming appears to be on a journey similar to that of nicotine a generation ago - at least in respect of the medical profession. At first, people take up a habit with glee. Then awareness of the costs - both social and individual - spread. Victims speak out, campaigners lobby, and the medical establishment comes to a new majority opinion.

Where medicine and public harm go, regulators often follow. As new media and technology change our lives at an ever faster rate, the medicalisation of our new habits will prompt ever greater scrutiny from legislators and parents alike.

The BBC has a digital guide to life online for parents and young people BBC Own It

Healthy breaks for schools

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'.

Free organ donation resources for your classroom

From spring 2020, the law around organ donation in England is changing. We have developed free teaching resources to educate young people about their organ donation choices and how the law will affect them when they reach 18, so they can make an informed decision. Click here to visit the NHS Blood and Transport website and to download the free teaching resources. (18/09/2019)

CPR Training Kits

Join our nation of lifesavers. Learn CPR and save a life. We're determined to increase cardiac arrest survival rates by creating a Nation of Lifesavers. Our 'Call Push Rescue' training kit provides all the specialist equipment needed to teach CPR. It can teach you to recognise cardiac arrest and carry out CPR on adults and children. It uses a film tutorial on DVD, showing how public access defibrillators work and their role in the life-saving process, so trainees are aware of their importance and are more confident to use one if needed. Click on the image for more information on how to obtain your pack.

Articles

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.

How to teach about sugar - Guardian article featuring links to a number of primary and secondary suitable resources

Quitday - Support for quitting smoking

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.

Healthy Eating - Click here for up to date info on healthy eating for all ages.

Food a Fact of Life - A Fact of Life provides a wealth of free resources about healthy eating, cooking, food and farming for children and young people aged 3 to 16 years. The resources are progressive, stimulate learning and support the curriculum throughout the UK. All resources are designed to ensure that consistent and up-to-date messages are delivered. Look out for the online diet and physical interactive tool mywellbeing for 11 to 16 - a great resource for teenagers.

The Always & Tampax puberty education programme helps give girls the confidence and resilience to stay healthy and keep playing sports in their own time.

Research shows that regular exercise improves self-esteem in young people, giving them that all important confidence boost they need at this formative time in their lives. However, over 50% of girls drop out of sports around puberty, when they need to develop self-belief the most.

The sense of accomplishment, feeling of belonging, ability to see their body as an asset, friendships, and fun are all some of the many benefits of sports participation that help increase girls’ confidence on and off the field. Encourage your girls to stay in sports by praising their participation, helping them create a team with their friends, giving them ownership over the team and most importantly, make it fun.

You can find more information around encouraging girls to stay healthy and keep playing sports by clicking the above logo. Help empower girls and encourage them to keep playing!

Visit the Always site today to access all of the available teaching materials.

PHE launches Rise Above for Schools programme - 13/09/2017

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).

With around 1 in 5 young people experiencing cyberbullying and 1 in 3 reporting that their body was “too fat”, pupils aged between 11 and 16 will be taught how to cope with some of modern life’s most challenging issues, equipping young people with resilience skills that will help them throughout adulthood.

Click here to view the full report

Alcohol Education Trust

Resources available free of charge We are pleased to be able to offer UK schools (pupils aged 11- 18) the following resources free of charge:

AET Teacher Workbook (1 printed copy)
200x 'Talking to Kids about Alcohol' parent guide OR
250x 'Alcohol and You' student guide OR
110x each guide
Full access to our student online learning zone www.talkaboutalcohol.com
Online resources – available to download as pdf versions via www.alcoholeducationtrust.org

You can order your resources via kate@alcoholeducationtrust.org .

Full set of resources

You can order a full set of our resources for a one off cost of £90 and this includes:

The ‘Talk about Alcohol’ 100 page alcohol education workbook
Teacher guidance and 6 lesson plans for children with SEN
DVD of BAFTA award winning ‘Just a Few Drinks’ 4 short films
Full access to the SEND area of our website with lesson plans, PowerPoints etc.
60 laminated discussion cards pictures, scenarios and quiz for use in class

This set of resources was highly commended in the 2017 Education Resources Awards and shortlisted in the Charity Times Awards and Children and Young People Now Awards 2017.

NEW ONLINE STORE .

SEN and Looked after Children

Please do get in touch if you work with Looked after Children or those with SEN. We have streams of funding available to support these groups.

Our resources are fully and independently evaluated and are:

DfE approved and awarded 3/3 by Mentor Adepis CAYT
Listed in The Early Intervention’s top 50 most effective programmes

PSHE Association Quality Assured

Teenage Cancer Trust

Resources

Here you will find useful education materials to help educate every young person in the UK about cancer and healthy living.

The phone life balance study - by Motorola Feb 2017

Aureus - school wellbeing reflection tasks

Antibiotic Resistance

Young people in Gloucestershire are helping tackle one of the biggest threats to our health. (Heart Radio 102.4)

Antibiotic resistance is seen by health professionals to be a global threat due to more people becoming immune to the potentially life-saving effects of current antibiotics from overuse and misuse.As well as affecting more basic treatments for cuts or infections this will mean that operations and procedures currently considered routine, such as hip replacements or cesarean sections, will become increasingly dangerous.

To try and stop the situation from getting worse Gloucestershire County Council is starting a new awareness raising campaign with a particular focus on young people aged 16 to 24, who are the highest users of antibiotics.

Live campaign and downloadable resources

All of the campaign materials can be found below. These have all been developed from the winning creative idea from students at Gloucestershire College, with their help and input.

They have really helped to bring this campaign to life and been pivotal in its execution across print, billboards, buses, social media and website pages.

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