World Antimicrobial Awareness Week

WAAW is celebrated every year from 18 to 24 November. This years theme is “preventing antimicrobial resistance together”.

There are a number of resources that schools can use to support the campaign during WAAW and through the winter months.

• The free e-Bug Health Educator Training, which aims to improve your ability to teach children and young people how to prevent the spread of infection and to use antibiotics responsibly.
• E-Bug provides a wealth of free educational resources - linked to the national curriculum - for classroom and home use - to make learning about micro-organisms, the spread, prevention and treatment of infection, fun and accessible for all teachers and students. E-Bug resources are recommended for teaching infection prevention and control topics, including hand and respiratory hygiene.
• The E-Bug online game can be played on individual computers, or played on a large screen for the class to play cooperatively. This game is recommended for secondary school or older primary school students.
• A sample newsletter item is also available which can be included in school newsletters to ensure the message is shared across the school. These can be download in Word or PDF versions.
• Primary school lesson plans are available for download. There are lesson plans on hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene, oral hygiene and microbes.
• Secondary school lesson plans are available for the topics listed above and debate kits are also available on antibiotic resistance and vaccinations.
• Play the keep antibiotics working video and ask the children to make an Antibiotic Guardian pledge to always do one thing to help protect antibiotics.
• An Antibiotic Guardian crossword and quiz is available for download which the school can print and distribute.

If your school participates in any activities in support of WAAW please share this with Antibiotic Guardian via the short online form on the schools registration page.