Year 4: Health and wellbeing
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Y4 Health and wellbeing
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Identify and share key facts about dental health.
- Describe a calm place that helps them to feel relaxed.
- Describe how they feel when they make a mistake and explain what can be learned from making mistakes.
- Write or describe their strengths and how they could use these in school.
- Describe what makes them happy, suggesting how they could work towards this as a goal.
- Explain that there are some things they can control and others they cannot.
- Understand the range of emotions we can experience.
- Understand what mental health is and that sometimes people might need help.
Suggested prior learning
Y3 Health and wellbeing
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Looking after our teeth
- To understand how we can look after our teeth.
Lesson 2: Relaxation: Visualisation
- To understand what relaxation feels like and to know that relaxation techniques can be used anywhere.
Lesson 3: Celebrating mistakes
- To develop a growth mindset and understand that mistakes are useful.
Lesson 4: Meaning and purpose: My role
- To identify individual strengths and begin to see how they can affect others.
Lesson 5: My happiness
- To identify what is important to me and to take responsibility for my own happiness.
Lesson 6: My emotions
- To understand a range of emotions.
Lesson 7: Mental health
- To begin to understand what mental health is and who can help if I need it.
Key skills
Key knowledge
Related content
Unit resources
Knowledge organiser: RSE & PSHE – Y4 Health and Wellbeing
A pupil-facing document summarising the key facts and definitions from the Year 4 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 4: Health and wellbeing
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Year 4: Health and wellbeing unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
Science
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions’.
See National curriculum - Science key stages 1 to 2.
English
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates
- 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
- evaluate and edit by:
- assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements
- use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary’.
See National curriculum - English key stages 1 to 2.
British values: Individual liberty.