Children's Pack

Health promotion is an important issue and this includes raising awareness about hand washing to help reduce the spread of germs.  Our aim is to raise the awareness of hand hygiene as early as possible, the sooner children get into the habit of washing their hands regularly, the better. With the advent of influenza A H1N1 (commonly known as swine flu) these hygiene messages are all the more relevant.  Good hand washing and hygiene practices can help reduce the incidence of the flu. It’s full of ideas and materials to encourage children to make hand washing part of their everyday routine.  The contents of the pack are listed below. 

Frequently Asked Questions | Posters | Handy Image | Teacher's Card | Reward Chart
Reward Stickers | Animation

Frequently Asked Questions

Posters 1 to 4

There are four posters included in the pack, to download them please click below;

To download Gaelic versions of the posters please click below

These are designed to encourage regular hand washing and should be placed where appropriate, in both primary schools and nurseries.

Handy Image

Handy image small

A downloadable image of Handy that can be printed out at any size you want, so it can be used in lots of different ways. It is available as both a PDF file as well as a JPEG. You could use this to make your own reward chart.  Or, you could print out a large Handy and put him onto cardboard to act as a hand washing monitor.

Use this file for printing Handy:

Use these files for inserting into your documents:
(To download the image files right click on the appropriate size file and select 'Save Target As ...', then browse to the location on your computer you wish to save the file.)

Teacher's Card

Some ideas to help make hand washing part of the school day.

Reward Chart

A chart that can be filled out when children wash their hands (this can be photocopied or downloaded and given out to pupils each week).

Reward Stickers

These could be given out at the end of each week to reward children for washing their hands. The diameter of the stickers is 3cm and we would recommend printing them on PC4 labels which have diameter of 3.25cm, to ensure stickers are printed correctly. It may be possible to print to other sticker formats such as address labels but we cannot guarantee with the download that these will match up exactly.:

Animation

This cartoon animation helps to explain why, when and how hands should be washed.  It lasts for around 5 minutes.

Download the Animation

To download the animation right click on the appropriate format and select 'Save Target As ...' and then browse to the location on your computer you wish to save the file. Please note this may take several minutes, but it will be of a higher quality than the flash version above.

PC Version

Mac Version

 

Germs. Wash your hands of them

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