Year 1: Health and wellbeing
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Y1 Health and wellbeing
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Describe how they feel using appropriate vocabulary, recognising what different emotions might look/feel like.
- Describe situations which may provoke certain feelings.
- Describe their own qualities and strengths and recognise something they want to get better at.
- Describe their bedtime routine, explaining why sleep is important.
- Explain how rest and relaxation affects our bodies, including mental functions.
- Identify examples where they could use relaxation to help manage difficult emotions.
- Understand that germs can be spread via our hands.
- Know how to wash their hands properly.
- Know the three things they need to do when out in the sun to keep safe.
- Know people can be allergic to certain things and how to help with an allergic reaction.
- Understand that there are a range of people who help to keep us healthy.
Suggested prior learning
Y1 Families and relationships
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Understanding my emotions
- To describe feelings and develop simple strategies for managing them.
Lesson 2: What am I like?
- To recognise and celebrate my strengths and set simple but challenging goals.
Lesson 3: Ready for bed
- To understand the benefits of physical activity and rest.
Lesson 4: Relaxation
- To know how to relax in different ways.
Lesson 5: Hand washing and personal hygiene
- To begin to understand how germs are spread and how we can stop them spreading.
Lesson 6: Sun safety
- To begin to understand the risks associated with the sun.
Lesson 7: Allergies
- To begin to understand allergies.
Lesson 8: People who help us keep healthy
- To understand that there are people in the local community who help to keep us healthy.
Key skills
Key knowledge
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Unit resources

Knowledge organiser: RSE & PSHE – Y1 Health and wellbeing
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit "Year 1: Health and Wellbeing".

Videos: RSE & PSHE Health and wellbeing
A collection of Q&A videos with RSE & PSHE Consultants addressing unit-specific themes to support the teaching of the Health…

Vocabulary display – RSE & PSHE Year 1: Health and wellbeing
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Year 1: Health and wellbeing unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
English
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary
- understand both the books they can already accurately and fluently and those they listen to by: making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done
- participate in discussion about what is read to them, taking turns and listening to what others say
- write sentences by: saying out loud what they are going to write about
- write sentences by: composing a sentence orally before writing it’
See National curriculum - English key stages 1 to 2.
Science
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (water, food and air)
- describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene.’