Early Years – Key Stage 4

Oral Health CURRICULUM

TOOLKIT

Oral Health Promotion Team Derbyshire County

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Page 2 • Introduction

Pages 3-5 • Oral Health messages

Page 7 • Oral Health links to the Early Years Foundation Stage

Page 9 • Oral Health links to the National Curriculum: Key Stage 1

Page 10 • Oral Health links to the National Curriculum: Key Stage 2

Page 11 • Oral Health links to the National Curriculum: Key Stage 3

Page 12 • Oral Health links to the National Curriculum: Key Stage 4

Page 14 • Interactive Oral Health activities/ Downloadable resources: Early Years - Key Stage 4

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• Interactive Oral Health activities/ Downloadable resources: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and English as an Additional Language

Page 16 • Borrowing resources

Page 17 • Purchasing Resources

Page 18 • Apps available to download

Contents

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Schools provide an important setting for promoting health which can easily be integrated into general health promotion, school curriculum and activities. Health promoting messages can be reinforced throughout the most influential stages of children’s lives, enabling them to develop lifelong sustainable attitudes, behaviours and skills. The health and wellbeing of school staff, families and community members can also be enhanced by programmes based in schools. Oral health is fundamental to general health and wellbeing. A healthy mouth enables an individual to speak, eat and socialize without experiencing active disease, discomfort or embarrassment. Poor oral health impacts on children’s confidence, language and personal, social and emotional development. Tackling poor oral health is a priority for Public Health England (PHE) under the national priority of ensuring that every child has the Best Start in Life. This online tool brings together a selection of oral health resources linked to key curriculum themes to support planned educational activities to increase oral health knowledge and encourage positive oral health practices.

Introduction

Improving Oral

Health

Using Fluorides

Effective Oral

Hygiene

Sugars in the Diet

Control Of Tobacco and Substances

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Toothbrushing

Brush last thing at night and at least on one other occasion.

Brush at least twice daily, with a fluoridated toothpaste.

Use fluoridated toothpaste containing 1,350-1,500 parts per million fluoride.

It is good practice to use only a pea size amount of fluoride paste.

Spit out after brushing and do not rinse, to maintain fluoride concentration levels.

Use either manual or powered toothbrush with small toothbrush head and medium texture.

Children who establish good brushing habits from an early age generally have less dental decay.

Key Oral Health Messages

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Diet

The frequency and amount of intake of sugars should be reduced. Keep sugars to mealtimes.

Try and aim for no more than four episodes of sugar intakes each day.

Encourage water between meals.

Avoid sugar containing foods and drinks at bedtime when saliva flow is reduced and buffering capacity is lost.

Visiting a Dentist

Visit the dentist at least once a year or more often, if recommended.

Find a dentist at to access regular dental care or recommendation from family and friends.

Visit to find out what to do if a child knocks a tooth out at school.

NHS Choices

Dental Trauma

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Alcohol/ Smoking

Tobacco use , both smoking and chewing tobacco seriously affects general and oral health. The most significant effect on the mouth is

oral cancers and pre-cancers.

Avoid smoking and shisha pipes.

Avoid smokeless tobacco

(e.g. paan, chewing tobacco, gutkha).

Drinking alcohol above recommended levels adversely affects general and oral health with the most significant oral health impact

being the increased risk of oral cancer.

Reduce alcohol consumption to low risk (recommended) levels.

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Oral Health links to the Early Years Foundation

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Personal, Social and Emotional Development

• Motivation

• Engagement

• Gains confidence and independence

• Maintaining focus on a task

• Joining in with peers

Communication and Language

• Organising and sequencing a task

• Listening and attention skills

• Speech sounds

Physical Development

• Encourages health and self care

• Encourages handling and dexterity skills

• Hand/eye coordination

Oral Health links to the Early Years Foundation Stage

Early Years

Lesson Plans:

Early Years Foundation (Click to view)

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Oral Health links to the

National Curriculum

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Lesson Plans:

Key Stage One (Click to view)

Science - Animals including humans

• ‘identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense.’

Year one:

• ‘… eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene.’

Year two:

Key Stage 1

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Lesson Plans:

Key Stage Two (Click to view)

Science - Animals including humans

• '...right types and amounts of nutrition.'

Year three:

• 'identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions.'

Year four:

• 'describe the changes as humans develop to old age.'

Year five:

• 'recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle'

Year six:

Key Stage 2

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• ‘the structure and functions of the human skeleton’.

The skeletal and muscular systems:

• ‘content of a healthy human diet’.

• ‘the consequences of imbalances in the diet’.

Nutrition and digestion:

• ‘the effects of recreational drugs’.

Health:

• ‘the pH scale for measuring acidity/alkalinity’.

Chemical reactions:

Biology

Chemistry

Key Stage 3

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• ‘the relationship between health and disease’.

• '...impact of lifestyle factors on the incidence of non-communicable diseases.'

Health, disease and the development of medicines:

Biology

Key Stage 4

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Websites

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EYs, KS1 &

KS2

Interactive Oral Health activities/ Downloadable resources

(Click on links to view)

Dental Buddy Nottinghamshire Oral Health Dental Care National Schools Partnership My Dentist Health Matters Education BBC Change4Life Colgate 543 Dental Care National Smile Month Twinkl

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Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

English as an

Additional Language

Change4Life Twinkl Public Health Agency

BBC Colgate 543 Dental Care National Smile Month Twinkl

Change4Life Twinkl BBC Colgate 543 Dental Care National Smile Month Twinkl

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Oral Health and Healthy Eating resources such as models, games, CDs & DVDs, books, posters and role play activities are available to loan out from the following websites:

Borrowing Resources (Click on links to view)

Derbyshire Oral Health Promotion

S4S: Derbyshire Services for Schools

Nottinghamshire Oral Health Promotion

Leicestershire Oral Health Promotion Team

British Dental Association

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• Motivators Books

• Oral Hygiene CDs & DVDs

• Dental Models Practice Products

• Mouth Cancer Groups & Schools

• Posters Puppets

• Patient Leaflets

• Leaflets Bookmarks

• Posters Magnets

• Activity Books Floormats

• Badges Stickers

• Balloons Board Games

Purchasing Resources (Click on links to view)

Oral Health Foundation

Comic Company

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Brush DJ

Brusheez

Aquafresh: Brush Time

Colgate: My Bright Smile

The Plaque Attack

Available on itunes: The Singing Dentist

Disney Magic Timer*

Oral Health Apps available to download

*compatible with any Crest/ Oral B Pro-Health Stages product

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