Working with the news - Our teacher area contains further tips and ideas for how you can integrate the news into your curriculum and use it to develop children’s skills in comprehension, composition, grammar and punctuation. spots of blood on your bedding – this could be from their bites or from rolling over and squashing them

Mosquitos sniff their victims out and choose them based on their scent. Many mosquito repellents try to change our smell to make us less appetising to the mosquitoes. You can get patches and sprays and people also say eating large amounts of Marmite can make you less appealing to the bugs. Antihistamines (Pills or Topical Creams) will also help reduce the reaction and will treat itching and swelling. If you are in pain, you can take paracetamol or ibuprofen to manage it. AnaphylaxisA choice from generously filled sandwiches/baguettes and panini’s incl. vegetarian and vegan options Mosquitos love stagnant water and breed prolifically when the conditions are right. Only female mosquitos bite humans as females need blood in their diet to reproduce. Male mosquitos have feathery antennae that help them sense the presence of female mosquitos but the males only live for about a week. Females have less bushy antennae and can live for a few months. Female mosquitos have long, tubular mouthparts that they use to pierce your skin and feed on your blood. When they bite you, they inject saliva into your body while suctioning your blood. Most people only experience a localised reaction to bee stings. This area around the skin is red and painful. About 3% of people stung by bees and wasps have an allergic reaction to the sting, and up to 0.8% of bee sting victims experience the severe and life-threatening allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis – this requires urgent medical intervention as detailed above. What to do:

First Aid for Life is a multi-award-winning, fully regulated first aid training provider. Our trainers are highly experienced medical, health and emergency services professionals who will tailor the training to your needs. Courses for groups or individuals at our venue or yours. Bee sting venom is predominantly formic acidic so they advise bicarbonate of soda to neutralise it. On white skin, the bites will appear red, but on darker skin they may look purple and be harder to spot They are members if the Trombiculidae family and are tiny mite like spiders. They are known as berry bugs, red bugs or harvest mites.Chiggers are mites that are commonly found on meadows, golf courses, woodlands, parks and in grassland around lakes and rivers.

Everyone has suffered from those incredibly itchy bites and stings that keep you awake at night. Although some people may seem more susceptible to bites, others may have spectacular and occasionally life-threatening reactions. The bites are not usually painful, and if you’ve not been bitten by bedbugs before, you may not have any symptoms. Bites from spiders in the UK are rare, but some native spiders – such as the false widow spider – are capable of giving a nasty bite. Symptoms: This guide gives you a general overview as to what might have got you and suggestions as to the best way to treat the bites and stings to make them more bearable and less of an ordeal. What Are Your First Steps? News Bites Quiz: This is an assignable quiz that pupils can take on their individual devices. Their results will be logged and as a teacher you can see how each child answered.Newspapers module- a collection of differentiated newspaper articles and supporting resources to help pupils identify and analyse the features of news reports and use them as a model for their own writing. Most of us are familiar with the tell-tale buzz of the mosquito and well aware of the look of these pesky vampiric pests. Unfortunately, we do get them in the UK and our increasingly warm summers are leading to a surge in numbers. Mosquitos feed on human blood and furthermore, they can also carry malaria, dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis and many more extremely serious diseases.

News Hunt: This format is ideal for front of class use. The questions are the same as in the news bites quiz, but also includes questions about the Picture of the week. Work through the questions together until you have helped Scully collect all the bones!Wasp sting venom is more alkaline and the remedy is neutralising the sting with vinegar to reduce the pain. Bites can also become infected or cause a severe allergic reaction in rare cases. Get medical help immediately if you have any severe or worrying symptoms after a spider bite. Bees and wasps are not generally aggressive and don’t look to sting people, however it is extremely common for people to accidentally step on them in bare feet, or for them to fly into us and then sting. When bees or wasps sting a person, they inject venom through their stinger into the skin of the victim. Coffee is served as a regular or large serving including all your favourites – Americano, Latte, Flat White, Mocha & Hot Chocolate