Teachers and Schools

These videos, resources, and links can be helpful and informative for teachers, teacher aides, educators, or anyone else supporting children with their continence within the school setting.

Guides

Free Resources
Guide

Continence Guide for Carers

Includes toileting help for adults and children with additional needs also inside: webinar links, videos and resources in multiple languages.
Guide

Tamariki and Teens

Includes our Busting the Myths series! Also inside: resources, videos, tips and activity sheets to help support a range of ages and needs.

Information for Teachers: Children Who Wet and Soil

A Continence NZ brochure  download, including information about what enuresis (wetting) and faecal incontinence (soiling) are, and how teachers can help. If you would like to order one or more physical copies of this brochure, please visit our Order Resources section to find out how.

Toilet Tactics for Our Tamariki

One of our most popular webinars, the Toilet Tactics for our Tamariki series is presented by Continence Nurse Lisa Smith, who has more than 35 years of experience working with children and young people. She has specialised in bowel and bladder issues in tamariki for the past almost 20 years. Each session is between 45 minutes to 1 hour long.

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Disability and Continence for Schools

This free online module, developed with support from the IHC Foundation, aims to give you practical knowledge and tools for supporting disabled students to achieve their best level of continence and improve their overall quality of life. This training was designed for schools (e.g., teachers, teacher aides, and learning support workers) but the content may be useful for anyone supporting students with additional physical, sensory, developmental, learning, and/or behavioural needs.

Managing Continence Issues in Secondary Schools

This short film from our friends at ERIC UK highlights how common continence issues are amongst teenagers and how important it is that these young people are supported at school.

Find out how ERIC, The Children's Bowel and Bladder Charity, has been working with researchers at the University of Bristol to raise awareness amongst teachers of the 'hidden' wee and poo problem. Hear from some young people who are living with incontinence and the effect this can have on them at school.

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Child Continence: Constipation

Suitable for anyone supporting a child or children with their continence, this free online module provides an overview of constipation in children, and how you can help them overcome it.

Storytime

Poo Hoo

This video adaptation of the book Poo Hoo tells the story of Tim Thompson, a boy who is having problems with sore tummies and sneaky poos.

A Wee Secret

Jet Johnson has a secret... find out how he bravely gets the help he needs in this video adaptation of the book A Wee Secret.

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