Personal, social and health education

Newcastle school health team work to promote healthier lifestyles, and one of the ways we do this is to provide classroom and curriculum support to schools for provision of those important health messages.

We provide lessons in:

• Talk PANTS – This will be delivered in year 2 to help the child to understand that their body belongs to them and to tell a trusted adult if they are worried or upset.
  
• PHSE lessons – These are great, and a safe space for children to talk and develop ideas about who they are, about the people around them and to learn how to keep themselves healthy, but the role models for children are those they see around them every day.
  
• Health for kids – This has a wealth of health promotional information that parents can use to reinforce health messages but the most important thing is to talk to you child about what they have learnt in school, how things make them feel and how you can support that learning with those health messages. This website also has a kids section that you can help them navigate.

Useful links

Additional needs

• Autism – life and relationships – sex education – parents and carers
• Susan’s Growing Up — Beyond Words

NSPCC

• Talk PANTS & Join Pantosaurus – The Underwear Rule
• NSPCC – keeping children safe support for parents – pants underwear rule

Puberty

• Spotting the signs of puberty – Grownups – Health for Kids
• Childline – puberty
• Busy Bodies Adolescent Development – Resources
• Amaze
• BBC – operation ouch – don’t panic about puberty

Sleep

• Newcastle Hospitals – children’s sleep service
• The Children’s sleep charity
• The sleep charity – relaxation-tips