Lesson 5: Healthy body, healthy brain: My healthy diary

Reflecting on the importance of diet, exercise and rest on the body, children create their own healthy diary for the week.

Learning objective

  • To understand and plan for a healthy lifestyle including physical activity, rest and diet

National curriculum

All schools should make provision for personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE), drawing on good practice.

The PSHE Association Programme of Study recommends pupils are taught:

  • H1. how to make informed decisions about health
  • H2. about the elements of a balanced, healthy lifestyle
  • H3. about choices that support a healthy lifestyle, and recognise what might influence these
  • H6. about what constitutes a healthy diet; how to plan healthy meals; benefits to health and wellbeing of eating nutritionally rich foods; risks associated with not eating a healthy diet including obesity and tooth decay

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Download classroom resources

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Should sit near the board to use examples shared as a class.

Pupils working at greater depth: 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. Will this give the children energy throughout the day?

Fill in a few examples for each of the columns (food, exercise, rest) on the board and ask children to fill in their healthy diaries.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

Created by:
Elaine Bousfield,  
Wellbeing specialist
Elaine worked for many years as a therapist with young people. She is the founder and chair of XenZone and its children and young people’s counselling service, kooth.com. Kooth delivers an online counselling and therapy service. It is also an online community…
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