A set of animations produced originally for BBC Learning as a resource for use in schools for young learning disabled in support of PSHE . The animations deal with personal health, hygiene and social issues. These short animations can be used in a class or on a one to one basis. If you’re in a school or are a carer and would like supporting materials do please contact us.
Social Behaviour and Personal Hygiene
My Shopping – Mine, Not Mine
This clip is about knowing what’s yours and what’s not yours in a shop.
My Pencils – Mine, Not Mine
This clip is about knowing what’s yours and what’s not yours in the classroom.
My Pizza – Mine, Not Mine
Demonstrates to young people with SEN needs – how to behave with others and not take things which don’t belong to them.
How Not to Greet a Baby
A young man learns what can go wrong if approaching a baby/child in the wrong way.
Greeting Your Doctor
A young man learns not to be afraid of his doctor.
Being Dressed
An animation aimed at young people with severe learning difficulties, highlighting the importance of appropriate dress to save others from embarrassment. The young man here, shocks a visitor and learns what dress code is appropriate.
Dressing Right
An animation aimed at young people with severe learning difficulties, encouraging appropriate dress in different weather conditions.
Sneezing
This clip is about encouraging attention to hygiene when ill with a bad cold.
Dirty Hands
A teenage boy’s friends are not impressed when he puts his filthy hands into a communal bowl of corn chips. Part of personal hygiene programme, for young people with SEN needs.
Clean Your Teeth
A teenage girl doesn’t bother to clean her teeth properly but after looking in the mirror realises she’d look a lot better without food clinging to her canines.
Washing Your Hair
A teenage girl fails to rinse her hair thoroughly after washing it under the shower.
Dry Yourself Properly
An animation aimed at teenage boys with severe learning difficulties. Encouraging viewers to use a towel in different ways to ensure they dry themselves properly after taking a bath or shower.
Clean Clothes
A teenage boy ends up feeling ashamed after getting dressed in clothes that have been lying around his room for several days.
First Period
An animation aimed at young teenage girls with severe learning difficulties around the issue of menstruation. Supporting viewers to feel comfortable with the body’s changes and significant personal events that take place during puberty.
Body Hair
This clip addresses the issue of pubic hair, supporting viewers to feel comfortable with their bodies and its development during puberty.
Wet Dreams
An animation aimed at young teenage boys with severe learning difficulties. This clip highlights the issue of wet dreams, helping viewers to feel comfortable with their bodies and its development during puberty.
Close the Toilet Door
An animation aimed at young people with severe learning difficulties, highlighting appropriate behaviour when using a cubicle in a public toilet
At the Urinals
An animation aimed at boys with severe learning difficulties, highlighting appropriate behaviour for boys when using a urinal.
Now Wash Your Hands
This clip is about encouraging personal hygiene after using the toilet.
Touching Yourself in Public
This clip highlights appropriate behaviour and social skills in relation to intimate self-touching in public
Touching Yourself in Private (M)
An animation aimed at teenagers with severe learning difficulties around the issue of masturbation and inappropriate public behaviour. A teenage boy gets an erection in a public changing room and his friends are shocked when he starts touching himself.r..
Inappropriate Touch – Friends
An animation aimed at teenagers with severe learning difficulties around issues of personal space and boundaries. Adam likes being close to Ellie but he knows his limits in terms of how close he wants her to get.
Inappropriate Touch – The Family Friend
Animation showing young people with SEN needs, how to deal with inappropriate attention from somebody within the family environment. Aimed at teenage girls with severe learning difficulties illustrating inappropriate touch. A friend of Ellie’s parents touches her inappropriately so she tells her mother.