Economy, Planning and Employability Services
Environmental Health Team
Tel: 01592 583141
Hand Hygiene Resource: suitable for nursery
– P7 pupils
The Environmental Health team has developed a Hand Hygiene Teaching Pack.
Purpose of the pack
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 the spread of communicable diseases and it is essential for children to understand why it is important to wash their hands.
The purpose of the pack is to encourage and support the school to practice hand washing regularly, as encouraging children from an early age to wash their hands will help to ensure that this practice becomes a lifelong habit.
Germbusters CD
A six minute film of Primary 7 pupils from Methilhill primary school who act out three scenes highlighting how easy it is to spread germs, the importance of washing your hands, and how to wash hands effectively using 5 simple steps.
Teaching pack containing worksheets, support material and scripts for peer-led workshops with suggested activities which link well the Curriculum for Excellence ’s Safe and Hygienic
Practices as follows: Early HWB 0-33a ; First HWB 1-33a ; Second HWB 2-33a .
The teaching pack is also available in hard copy along with the Glitterbug hand washing training kit.
The resource can be borrowed for 2 week periods, by either emailing Natalie Carlton at natalie.carlton@fife.gov.uk
or by calling on extension 446847.
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Practical Hand Wash ing by ‘Peer Led’ Learning
The rationale behind peer education is that peers can be a trusted and credible source of information, and is a useful way to deliver health messages, as children are more likely to listen and respond to their peers than a ‘lecture’ delivered by adults www.Itscotland.org.uk
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Practical hand washing is delivered by volunteers from the P7 pupils. They are supported with scripts,
CD’s, Germbuster stickers and the Glitterbug hand hygiene kit, to enable them to deliver workshops to their school on simply; when?, why? and how? they should wash their hands properly.
On completion of the workshops the trainers receive a medal to demonstrate that they are the ‘School Hand Hygiene Trainers.’
They could also deliver the hand hygiene message to their parents, by holding an information stand at a parents evening or other school event for example a health day or during health week.
The peer-led project has been piloted at Burntisland, Pitcoudie, St Leonard ’s, Inzievar,
Kingsbarns, and Crail primary schools, Kirkland High, and St Columbus High schools.
Further information on Scotland's National Hand Hygiene Campaign is available at www.washyourhandsofthem.com
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