Year 3: Health and wellbeing
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Y3 Health and wellbeing
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Create a healthy diary, where energetic activities and high-energy food are scheduled for the same day.
- Work in pairs so that one person can do a stretch while the other draws a stick figure to show the pose.
- Understand the different aspects of their identity.
- Identify their own strengths and that they can help other people.
- Describe how they would break a problem down into small, achievable goals.
- Understand the benefits of healthy eating and dental health.
Suggested prior learning
Y2 Health and wellbeing
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: My healthy diary
- To understand and plan for a healthy lifestyle including physical activity, rest and diet.
Lesson 2: Relaxation: stretches
- To perform a range of relaxation stretches.
Lesson 3: Wonderful me
- To understand the different aspects of my identity.
Lesson 4: My superpowers
- To identify my own strengths and begin to see how they can affect others.
Lesson 5: Resilience: breaking down barriers
- To break down barriers into smaller, achievable goals.
Lesson 6: Communicating my feelings
- To recognise when to give consent.
Lesson 7: Diet and dental health
- To understand the benefits of healthy eating and dental health.
Key skills
Key knowledge
Related content
Unit resources
Knowledge organiser: RSE & PSHE – Y3 Health and wellbeing
A pupil-facing document summarising the key learning from the Year 3 Health and wellbeing unit.
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: Year 3: Health and wellbeing
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Year 3: Health and wellbeing unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
Physical education
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance’
See National curriculum - Physical education key stages 1 to 2.
Science
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat.’
See National curriculum - Science key stages 1 to 2.
English
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- Develop positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read by:
- listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks
- identifying themes and conventions in a wide range of books
- recognising some different forms of poetry [for example, free verse, narrative poetry]
- plan their writing by discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar’.
See National curriculum - English key stages 1 to 2.
Art and design
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials’.