A charitable take on school health and hygiene Health & Hygiene


and influences policy and practice. It features a programme for schools, funded by the DfE aiming to improve outcomes for students with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties, by providing a comprehensive suite of online learning resources for educational professionals, along with a range of training courses related to mental health and wellbeing in schools. More information, as well as a range of resources is available at www.youngminds.co.uk.


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midst a sea of changing curriculum, constantly moving goalposts from government, not to mention basic classroom management, the last thing likely to be on a teacher’s mind is students’ health and hygiene education. But this wide-ranging topic is a crucial part of a young person’s development, often helping to define good practices for life. To make things a little easier, Education Today has sourced its top pick of the health and hygiene charities that could benefit teachers, students and the school community as a whole.


Young Minds


This is a charity committed to improving the emotional wellbeing and mental health of young people. The organisation campaigns, researches


This organisation is committed to promoting the development of health education for young people in the UK. The Trust encourages the growth of healthy lifestyles by providing advice and training through workshops and seminars; organising national and regional conferences; publishing newsletters and developing key resources such as policy guidelines, tools, and manuals. The Trust has a School Food Policy and details of this, along with teaching resources, can be found at www.healthedtrust.com.


WaterAid UK


This charity is a member of WaterAid, an international non-government organisation. Its mission is to change lives by improving access to safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation in the world’s poorest communities. To get schools


talking about global water and sanitation issues, the charity provides The Big Collection - free school workshops and talks, lesson materials and activities. The resources are free and can be downloaded following registration to the site. Teaching materials cover a range of topics including why hand washing is so important; how communities in the developing world are building healthy lifestyles together; the importance of clean toilets and how to save water by following examples from the developing world. Go to www.wateraid.org/uk for more information.


ERIC


Education and Resources for Improving Childhood continence is the charity taking school hygiene to a whole new level! They have launched the Bog Standard Campaign, which is designed to improve the standard in all pupils’ toilets across the UK. ERIC is an advocate of good quality school toilets, providing information and support on childhood bedwetting, daytime wetting, soiling and constipation to families and health professionals. Information and resources, in the form of leaflets and videos, are available online to assist professionals and parents. Pass the message on now by visiting www.eric.org.uk and www.bog- standard.org.


Getting personal with college fitness H


eralded as the flagship site for leading fitness supplier Precor’s Preva networked fitness, Wellington College in Berkshire is hot on sport. The college’s 80-station gym installed Precor’s powerful new software early in 2012, following a refurbishment with all new equipment and three of Precor’s award-winning AMTs.


Available on Precor’s innovative P80 touch- screen consoles, Preva Personal Accounts software enables exercisers to set personal workout goals each week, choose targets that are relevant to them – distance, calories or duration – and select an individual long-term


focus, for example losing weight or toning up. Exercisers can measure their progress with the weekly goal summary, which alerts them if they’re on or off target, automatically recalculating remaining workouts so they still reach their goal.


Miles Rimell, Marketing Director EMEA & APAC for Precor comments: “When the Preva Personal Accounts software went live, we provided an instructor to interact with the staff and encouraged member use, which really helped boost staff confidence. A year down the line and the results of Preva networked fitness are paying dividends.”


“Personal Accounts is truly engaging our members and encouraging them to try different workouts,” said Paula Pocock, Fitness Manager at Wellington Health and Fitness Club at Wellington College, which saw more than 1,000 different workouts performed by 116 individual members in less than one month. “Members are logging on to each piece of kit as they want to see the time going down on their weekly goal. It’s popular with all age groups, has been a talking point between members and given instructors more reason to interact.”


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