Resources for Teaching Staff

It is important for young people to attend the dentist as regularly as the dentist advises. Use this tool from the NHS to find a dentist.

This range of lesson plans provides ideas for your lesson delivery.

• Change4Life: Here you will find a KS2 comic-style story, keeping our teeth healthy, for science lessons to teach pupils about dental health.
• Change4Life: This Healthier snacking school council toolkit for KS2 was developed with teachers and has a range of fun activity ideas for school councils to promote healthier snacking.

To find more information and advice on oral health in your school visit these websites:

• Oral Health Foundation: The Dental Buddy programme hosts a series of educational resources for early years learning in KS2.
• e-Bug: This website has many resources available including a brushing diary activity, sugar attacks activity and sugar in drinks activity. There is also a quiz to use to test the pupil's knowledge.
  

These videos are short, fun and useful and can help to support good oral health in your settings.

• e-Bug: This video provides a demonstration for 7-11 year olds on how to brush their teeth effectively.

• BBC Bitesize: This 1 minute video, what are the types of teeth, explains using an animated video the functions of our different teeth.
• BBC Bitesize: This 40 second video, is useful for introducing the topic of the digestive system. Its called what happens to food in your mouth.