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Educating and supporting healthy Educating and supporting healthy sleep habits. Educating and supporting healthy
exercise and screen habits eating habits.
▪ Teach children the importance of sleep. In the home, this
▪ An increasing number of adults now wear could be through You Tube clips. At school, this should ▪ Teach children the importance of
fit bits and keep a keen eye on their daily be through the curriculum. healthy, balanced diets. In schools, this
exercise levels. Children need exercise too, ▪ Teach strategies and routines for good sleep hygiene. should be within the curriculum (links
yet homes and schools are now often Work with your child to find out other people’s sleep with science, PSE).
sedentary places. It is vital that we hygiene tips. ▪ At home, keep healthy snacks in the
support children to develop good exercise ▪ For schools, keep the importance of sleep high profile by fridge and cupboard and don’t keep
habits early on in their lives: every adult holding a ’Sleep Hygiene’ day. Put posters around the unhealthy ones in the house / school.
can make a big difference to this. school, hold assemblies and show videos on the Remember – make unhelpful habits as
▪ Plan into each day several short bursts of importance of sleep: hard as possible and helpful ones as
exercise. You may feel there isn’t time for ▪ KS1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oEXGiWV3p8 easy as possible.
this, yet the dividends it will bring to ▪ KS2+ ▪ For schools:
children’s memory and concentration will https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxWv6PM4EM ✓ Open a student-run healthy snack shop
make it well worth it. Include 10 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpkfMuXJnWI (liaise with local fruit/veg & wholefood
of aerobic exercise, 10 mins of distance ▪ Include sleep hygiene tips in school newsletters and suppliers).
jogging and ten mins of contrasting provide information for parents: ✓ Provide funded breakfast clubs
movement such as yoga: ▪ http://www.sleepcouncil.org.uk/wp- ✓ Ensure healthy hot meals at lunch are
https://www.cosmickids.com/ content/uploads/2015/02/the_good_night_guide_for_chil available to all pupils.
▪ Help children get into a habit of taking dren.pdf ✓ Deliver a good quality (with structured
movement breaks every 45 minutes – vary ▪ https://sleepcouncil.org.uk/sleep-advice-scenarios/meet- progression) teaching programme of
it each time with jumping jacks on one david-sleep-advice-for-teenagers/ food technology so that all children leave
break, marching on the spot on the next ▪ For those children who are constantly tired in the day, school able to prepare dishes for a daily
and squats on another. use coaching to unpick barriers and support them in balanced diet.
▪ Design daily structures that involve regular developing strategies for securing good sleep hygiene - ▪ At home, teach your child how to cook a
movement around the house, classroom or take a curious and solution-finding approach. set of healthy meals.
school.