Learning objective
- To understand and plan for a healthy lifestyle including physical activity, rest and diet
Statutory guidance
Pupils should know:
Mental wellbeing
- Simple self-care techniques, including the importance of rest, time spent with friends and family and the benefits of hobbies and interests.
Physical and mental fitness
- The characteristics and mental and physical benefits of an active lifestyle
- The importance of building regular exercise into daily and weekly routines and how to achieve this; for example walking or cycling to school, a daily active mile or other forms of regular, vigorous exercise.
- The risks associated with an inactive lifestyle (including obesity).
Success criteria
Cross-curricular links
Before the lesson
Download classroom resources
Attention grabber
Main event
Differentiation
Pupils needing extra support:
Year 3: Might benefit from having an A3 version of Activity: My healthy diary (see Classroom resources). They could then stick pictures of things onto their diary.
Year 4: Might use the Activity: My healthy diary – Y3 version.
Pupils working at greater depth:
Year 3: Should be encouraged to use a range of different foods and types of exercise in their healthy diaries. Should describe the effects of different food groups on the body.
Year 4: Should use the Activity: My healthy diary – Y4 extension version or could design their own diary perhaps using their computing skills and then fill this in.
Wrapping up
Assessing pupils' progress and understanding
Vocabulary
In this topic
- Assessment Y3/4: (CB) Health and wellbeing
- Y3/4 Lesson 1 (Cycle B): My healthy diary
- Y3/4 Lesson 2 (Cycle B): Looking after our teeth
- Y3/4: Lesson 3 (Cycle B): Relaxation: visualisation
- Y3/4 Lesson 4 (Cycle B): Meaning and purpose: my role
- Y3/4 Lesson 5 (Cycle B): Resilience: breaking down problems
- Y3/4 Lesson 6 (Cycle B): Emotions
- Y3/4 Lesson 7 (Cycle B): Communicating my feelings
- Y3/4 Lesson 8 (Cycle B): Mental health