My healthy self: How can I support my mind and body as I grow?
Understanding how everyday choices can support physical and emotional wellbeing by exploring nutrition, physical activity and self-regulation.
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My healthy self: How can I support my mind and body as I grow?
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Identify nutrients on traffic light food labels.
- Compare traffic light food labels to make a healthier choice.
- Describe how active they are now and why adults stay active.
- Identify light, moderate and vigorous activity.
- Explain how physical activity supports the body and mind.
- Name a range of more complex feelings.
- Describe signs of more complex feelings in the body.
- Suggest helpful ways to respond to strong and complex feelings.
- Describe ways to look after mental health.
- Recognise signs that someone might need support with their mental health.
- Name trusted adults and professionals who can help with mental health and explain what they do.
Lesson 2: How active am I and how can I move more? and Lesson 3: What are the different types of physical activity and how do they affect us? allow for a visit from a health professional, such as a dietician or personal trainer, to share how physical activity supports the body and mind to support children’s learning in this unit.
Lesson 5: How can I respond to strong and complex feelings? requires access to a large space, such as a hall or outdoor area.
Prior learning
My healthy self: How can I make healthy choices?
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: What do food labels really tell us?
Lesson 2: How active am I and how can I move more?
Lesson 3: What are the different types of physical activity and how do they affect us?
Lesson 4: How can I recognise complex feelings?
Lesson 5: How can I respond to strong and complex feelings?
Lesson 6: How can we tell when someone might need support with their mental health?
Key skills
Key skills
Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
Full equipment list for the subject
Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Wonder box ×1
- Highlighters ×30
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A large space, such as a hall or playground
- Sticky notes
- Stopwatch / timer 1
- Colouring pencils ×30
- Regulation stations: leaf, stone, putty, squeeze ball and scrunched-up paper As needed
The equipment below is operational
- Digital device (internet-enabled) ×15
Equipment list
Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Wonder box ×1
- Highlighters ×30
-
A large space, such as a hall or playground
- Sticky notes
- Stopwatch / timer 1
- Colouring pencils ×30
- Regulation stations: leaf, stone, putty, squeeze ball and scrunched-up paper As needed
The equipment below is operational
- Digital device (internet-enabled) ×15
Related content
Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – RSE & PSHE Y5: How can I support my mind and body as I grow?
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit 'How can I support my mind and…
Vocabulary display – RSE & PSHE Y5: My healthy self: How can I support my mind and body as I grow?
A display version of the vocabulary for the unit 'How can I support my mind and body as I grow?'.
Unit resource: UKS2 Y5 Emotions and feelings
A poster showing the six main emotions and associated feelings.