Topic | Theme | Typical quotes |
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Transmission of flu and colds | Germs | 'When you have a sneeze your germs will go to other people and other people will have sneezes as well' (Year 1) |
 |  | 'If I touch my baby sister she will have the germs' (Year 1) |
 |  | 'If they sneeze or cough and the germs get to you' (Year 6) |
 | Person to person | Someone in my family had it, then I got it too' (Year 2) |
 |  | 'It goes from one person to another' (Year 2) |
 |  | 'If someone is coughing or sneezing around them then they will catch it' (Year 6) |
 | Proximity/contact | 'When you touch people who have flu or other diseases' (Year 6) |
 |  | 'Because they stand next to each other' (Year 1) |
 |  | When other people have got it and you go near them then you get it. (Year 6) |
 |  | 'If you go close to someone with flu' (Year 6) |
 | Cold | 'It's cold and you didn't wear a coat, then you make cold' (Year 1) |
 |  | 'They don't wear a coat when they go outside, mostly in Winter'' (Year 6) |
 | Dirt/contamination on hands | 'If they don't wash their hands after they go to the bathroom' (Year 6) |
 |  | 'Eating without washing our hands' (Year 6) |
 |  | 'If you touch something dirty and then touch your face' (Year 6) |
 | Other | 'Some immune systems can't deal with it' (Year 6) |
 |  | '...when you are not active' (Year 6) |
Occasions for washing hands | Eating | 'to eat our food' (Year 1) |
 |  | 'having dinner or tea' (Year 1) |
 |  | Before eating (Year 6) |
 |  | 'Before I eat I have to wash my hands' (Year 6) |
 |  | 'Before eating' (Year 6) |
 | Toilet | 'After toilet' (Year 6) |
 |  | 'After toilet' (Year 1 picture) |
 | Visible or sensory dirt | '...if you've played in the garden and touched soil' (Year 6) |
 | Contact with contaminated object | 'If they do something dirty in the garden' (Year 1) |
 |  | '...after eating with hands' (Year 6) |
 | Sneezing | 'After touching a bin' (Year 6 picture) |
 |  | 'After sneezing on hands' (Year 6 picture) |
Reasons for hand washing | Avoid germs | 'Because you might get germs off the toilet' (Year 1) |
 |  | 'I went to the museum and they said germs go on your hands every 5 seconds.' (Year 6) |
 |  | 'Hygiene, you always have germs on your hands so when you eat without washing your hands all those germs go into your body.' (Year 6) |
 |  | So you don't get germs on your mouth, face and hands (Year 1) |
 |  | 'Because if you don't you will get germs and you will start to be ill' (Year 1) |
 |  | To get rid of germs (Year 6) |
 | Avoid illness | 'So I don't get ill' (Year 2) |
 | Remove visible dirt | 'Cleanliness, so there's no bits on your hands and you're not muddy or dirty or anything.' (Year 6) |
 |  | 'Because when you do dirty stuff like handstands you might get your hands dirty.' (Year 1) |
Reasons for not washing hands | Don't want to/like dirt | 'Because they don't want to, don't feel like it' (Year 1) |
 |  | 'They like their hands to be dirty' (Year 1) |
 | No need | 'They're not really bothered and they don't really care.' (Year 6) |
 | Competing priorities | Because they don't eat' |
 |  | 'Because their favourite programme is coming and they don't want to miss it' (Year 1) |
 | Ignorance | '...playing a game and not want to miss anything' (Year 6) |
 |  | 'They don't know the reasons why they should' (Year 6) |
 | Poverty/moral judgement | 'Because they are poor and they stink' (Year 1) |
Respiratory hygiene practices | Turn away | 'Face the other way so no one is there' (Year 1) |
 |  | 'Turn my head away from everyone' (Year 6) |
 | Use Tissue | 'Use a tissue' (year 6) |
 | Cover with hands | 'Cover my nose...get a tissue and put it' in the bin (Year 1) |
 |  | 'You need lots of tissues for sneezing so you can stop the sneeze go anywhere' (Year 1) |
 | Cover and wash hands | 'Put your hands up in front' (Year 1) |
 |  | 'You put your hand in front of your mouth' (Year 1) |
 |  | 'Use a tissue or your hand and wash your hand afterwards' (Year 6) |
 |  | 'Sneeze in hands and wash hands' (Year 6) |
 |  | 'Cover my mouth and wash hands after' (Year 6) |
 |  | 'If you cover your mouth with your hands when you sneeze it would be even better if you wash hands afterwards' (Year 6) |
Reasons for respiratory hygiene | Protect others | 'So they don't get germs on their face' (Year 1) |
 |  | 'When you sneeze the germs fo out of your nose and onto other people' (Year 1) |
 |  | 'Sneeze on your little sister and she won't go to nursery school' |
 |  | 'It protects other people from catching your germs' (Year 6) |
 | Stop germs | 'Use a tissue so germs go on the tissue and don't spread' (Year 6). |
 |  | 'When you sneeze the germs travel along to another person but a tissue blocks the germs' (Year 6) |
 |  | 'Germs get caught in the tissue and don't spread everywhere' (Year 6) |
 |  | 'The tissue traps germs...and they can't get out' (Year 6) |