Introducing teachkidshealth.co.uk

Healthy Living initiatives can have a positive impact on us all. Where it is often difficult to persuade adults to change their behaviour and begin to live more healthily, children can be influenced more easily. What's more, if a healthy approach is encouraged and adopted during the early years it will hopefully remain throughout life.

Ultimately, 'Healthy life' messages may lead to the prevention of many illnesses such as tooth decay, heart disease, sexually transmitted diseases and diseases spread by poor hygiene practices, such as common childhood illnesses and food poisoning.

As part of a more united strategy to improve the health of our children and our society as a whole there is a real need to provide you, the teacher, along with school nurses and facilitators, with high quality educational tools. This website has been developed to provide you with the background information you need to be able to effectively and confidently teach aspects of Health and Hygiene to your Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 pupils. The site is supported by an educational grant from Reckitt Benckiser, makers of DETTOL.

The subjects covered include dental hygiene, hand hygiene, healthy eating, drugs education, knowledge of the body and sex and relationship education. Each section is accompanied by a series of lessons, ideas for fillers and projects in easily printable PDF format so that they can be kept conveniently in your files.

The site is logically divided into Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2, but you should not feel restricted - every school, every class and every child is individual and you may find more appropriate materials at a different level.

Navigating around the site

The site can be accessed initially by choosing from Key Stage 1 or Key Stage 2 in the central panel. On the linking pages the options in the central panel will lead to the individual topics with background information for the teacher. The topics, lesson plans, fillers and projects can be accessed from the tool bar at the top of the page.

All tools are available in easily printable PDF files so that they can be conveniently filed in your records. To view these resources you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. If you do not already have this, it can be downloaded free of charge by clicking here.

You can navigate between Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 at any time by using the buttons in the top left hand corner. Resources discussed in the site are listed in the library, which can be accessed from the tool bar at the bottom of the screen.

Printing the content of this site

At the top of the introduction pages for each section is a link that will open a printable PDF version of the relevant section. These can be printed off and kept in your files for future reference. For full size versions of the figures, right click with your mouse on the appropriate figure and select the print option.

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