Starting Reception Useful links

Healthy routines

Understand what 'healthy' levels of screen time are, by age

• World Health Organization guidance on screen time and physical activity - WHO

• Tips for a healthier screen time - Health Professionals for Safer Screens

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Get insights on internet safety, how screen use impacts young children and recommended screen time

• Help for early years providers: Internet safety - Department for Education

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And for those with younger children, the NCT covers advice for babies and toddlers too:

• Screen time for babies and toddlers - NCT

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Help children build a strong relationship with food and make the right choices from the start

• Nutrition guidance - Department for Education

• Healthier families - NHS

• Five tips for helping your kids to eat healthily all year round - BBC Tiny Happy People

• Eating Well - First Steps Nutrition Trust

• Factsheet for healthy children's diets - Association of UK Dieticians

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Brushing teeth

• Toothbrushing SOS with the singing dentist - BBC Tiny Happy People

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Sleep guidance

• Sleep and young children - NHS

• Struggling to get children to sleep: How to establish a bedtime routine - BBC Tiny Happy People