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Learning objective

  • To understand how to help someone with asthma.

Success criteria

  • I can identify and manage a
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Relationships and sex

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Cross-curricular links

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Arrange the children into pairs and hand out whiteboards and pens. Display the Presentation: Speak like an expert – bites and stings. Work through the activity on the slide and take feedback. (The children covered this in Year 3, Safety and the changing body, Lesson 2: First aid – bites and stings. Refer to this lesson…

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Could rewatch the video link to support with ideas; could be allocated with a role within the role play scenarios that they feel comfortable with.

Pupils working at greater depth

Should explain different scenarios and triggers for asthma attacks and different methods for how to help; could demonstrate and model how to support in an emergency situation and feed back to specific groups on their role play offering helpful suggestions.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: identifying what asthma is and its

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Vocabulary definitions

  • airways

    The tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs.

  • deflate

    When something, like your lungs, gets smaller as air leaves.

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In this unit

Assessment - RSE & PSHE Y4: Safety and the changing body

Lesson 1: Internet safety: Age restrictions

Lesson 2: Share aware

Lesson 3: First Aid: asthma

Lesson 4: Privacy and secrecy

Lesson 5: Consuming information online

Lesson 6: Growing up

Lesson 7: Introducing puberty

Lesson 8: Tobacco

Originally created by:

Sarah Huggins

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Maintained by: Kapow Primary team

Last update: 6th February, 2025

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