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Happier and healthier children Leading children’s charity Coram and BAFTA-nominated puppeteers of the CBBC characters Hacker & Dodge have joined forces to give UK school children better chances of leading happier and healthier lives. The Coram Life Education
programme, which reaches 800,000 children every year in nearly a quarter of UK schools, teaches life-skills to children aged three to 11-years-old using fun, interactive and age-specific activities. Now, the multimedia programme has been given the CBBC treatment by the BBC’s Connect & Create team. Coram Life Education’s much-loved character Harold the Giraffe has been given a make-over and will now be joined by two newly created puppet friends Derek and Kiki on his adventures, as they explore the key issues facing children today in four new films. The films will take centre stage in the Coram Life Education
programme, which teaches school children about self-esteem, drugs awareness, assertiveness and anti-bullying techniques, positive friendships and healthy lifestyle choices. The four films cover topics including: healthy living and friendship (year 1); feelings and being left out (year 2); friendships and conflict resolution (year 3); and choices we make with our friends (year 4). Coram Life Education is designed by child development experts
and delivered by qualified educators in specially designed mobile classrooms. Staff work with teachers to tailor sessions to a class’s specific age, curriculum framework and needs. Headteacher Fiona Hamilton, of Coalway Community Infant school,
which took part in a national pilot of the new films, said: “The school’s annual Coram Life Education visit really enhances our PSHE curriculum work. The children and staff always thoroughly enjoy Harold’s visit and take so much away from the sessions. This year the teachers particularly liked the introduction of the new BBC audio visual materials, which added a very positive extra dimension to the whole experience.”
• Visit
www.coram.org.uk/news/readmore/16/1 A helping hand with hygiene
This Spring sees the launch of a free curriculum linked hand hygiene education programme, fronted by a new animated character called Professor Albie. Professor Albie, along with a
comprehensive support package and animation from Albany Healthy Schools, will teach and inspire pupils (aged four to 11-years- old) how to clean their hands in a fun and interactive way, helping them learn life-long skills. The resource provides a valuable tool to help reduce the risk of infection and the number of school days lost to illness. The curriculum-linked package includes a unique
animation, teacher’s guide, an assembly script, lesson plans and quiz sheets, created by educational experts. Each resource is targeted at a different age group including early years foundation stage, key stage 1 and key stage 2, and helps children to learn about the importance of correct hand cleaning and the science behind germs and illness. The exclusive animation features Professor Albert Mineshine, or Albie
as he is known to his friends, a scientific hygiene expert on a mission to rid the world of harmful germs that can cause sickness and illness.
• To order your pack email
prof.albie@
albanyhealthyschools.co.uk, or call 0870 366 5777. For more information about Albany Healthy Schools, visit
www.albanyhealthyschools.co.uk
8 Illustration competition
Award-winning author and illustrator, Michael Foreman, is fronting the second annual Young ShelterBox 2011 Illustration Competition. Young ShelterBox is the
children’s arm of international disaster relief charity, ShelterBox. Each year they invite children in primary schools across the UK to enter a competition and illustrate a page in a book. The books are part of a series examining what it’s like to be a part of a disaster such as an earthquake, tsunami or a flood. This year’s book, The Day the
Rain Came, is due to be published in October 2011 and will be on sale nationally. Mr Foreman will provide an illustration for the book (pictured) and advice for children entering the competition. He said: “I first heard about ShelterBox on a visit to Cornwall. I was impressed that it is such a simple and concise idea. Your donation doesn’t disappear into a great black hole, it is very specific in that it actually goes towards a ShelterBox. “A ShelterBox contains everything a family would need to survive
in the aftermath of a disaster including a tent, stove, blankets and tools. What I really like is that, amid the devastation of a major disaster, there is also a little rainbow for children – crayons and colouring book. A simple gesture like that can mean so much to a child who has lost everything. “Young ShelterBox has the aim of explaining disasters and disaster
relief to children from a children’s perspective. It is a brilliant project with which I am delighted to be involved.”
• The closing date for entries is June 30. Visit
www.shelterbox.org Staying safe in the sun
With the long-awaited arrival of the great British summer, it is important for school children to learn how to enjoy the sun safely. This is especially important as studies have shown that sunburn during childhood can increase the risk of skin cancer later in life. As part of their SunSmart schools campaign, Cancer Research UK is offering schools the chance to get their hands on free resources to make it easy for schools to adopt a sun protection policy. A sun protection policy communicates to the whole school
community, including parents and carers, that the school actively encourages and promotes sun awareness and the vital importance of sun safety, as recommended in the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines for preventing skin cancer. The pack offered by Cancer Research UK contains a poster for display
to show pupils, staff and parents the steps the school is taking to be SunSmart. To help get your whole school onside, the pack also contains a
specially created SunSmart assembly plan to help inform pupils about the importance of being SunSmart and how to achieve it. In addition to the poster, there are lesson plans for 5 to 7 and 8
to 11-year-olds, to help teachers reinforce the important SunSmart messages in the classroom. These lessons, together with teachers’ notes and curriculum mapping will be sent along with the poster.
• To receive your free pack email your school name and address to
SunSmart@rapportgroup.com.
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