Dental Health Nurse Visit - 2nd Session

This afternoon's session was all about tooth decay. Plaque was described as being 'like a glue stick' almost invisible, but sugar sticks to it really well. The children found out that plaque germs love to eat sugar as it helps to make them grow much faster.

The children looked briefly at brushing teeth (more on this area next week) and how plaque starts to grow one hour after teeth have been brushed - and it grows all day long... The plaque and sugar mix together to create an acid which is not good for teeth!

The children then looked at the importance of healthy snacks between meals which contain no added sugar. Having brought in tins and packets of food, it was amazing for the children to see how many foods have added sugar.A small bottle of 'fizzy cola' contains an incredible 11 teaspoons of sugar!

Dental Health Nurse Visit

This afternoon, Nicki Rice (Dental Health Nurse) joined Yellow Class for the first of three visits. This work is part of the 'Healthy Bodies' topic currently being undertaken by the children. Today's session looked at the teeth in general as part of the skull, what teeth actually do, the different parts of teeth and the different types of teeth that children, adults and animals have.

Potato Harvesting and Fruit Picking

CATCH IT, BIN IT, KILL IT

There have been lots of coughs and colds going around recently. This week, all children were given a packet of tissues during a 'sneezesafe' assembly which carried the very important message of:

Catch it...

by using a tissue

Bin it...

put all used tissues in a bin

Kill it...

by washing hands with antibacterial handwash.

Wishing everyone a very relaxing and enjoyable half-term break, it has been a long but very enjoyable 7 1/2 weeks. Keep safe.