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 to encourage children to get into the habit of
washing their hands regularly. Hand hygiene is extremely effective
in helping to prevent transmission of infection such as colds and
flu. The Children's Pack is 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
A downloadable image of Handy 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