Y3/4 (A): Health and wellbeing
Learning about how to stay healthy and how our diet affects our bodies and our teeth, identifying our strengths, learning how to celebrate mistakes and develop a growth mindset, considering how we can increase our happiness.
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Y3/4 (A): 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.
- Show understanding that food choices, exercise, dental hygiene, positive relationships and managing feelings are all important to keeping healthy.
- Describe what is meant by a healthy, balanced diet and naming the different food groups.
- Explain how to take care of your teeth.
- Stretch to relax their muscles.
- Describe how relaxation affects the body.
- Describe what they are good at and what they enjoy as well as naming groups or communities they are a part of.
- Identify their own strengths and that they can help other people.
- Describe how they feel when they make a mistake and explain what can be learned from making mistakes.
- Express their feelings; offer suggestions of what to say when setting a boundary and make note of things they like and dislike to help them create boundaries.
- Describe what things make them happy and suggest ways they could help work towards this as a goal.
- Explain that there are some things they can control and some things they cannot.
Suggested prior learning
Lessons
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 1: My healthy diary
To understand and plan for a healthy lifestyle including physical activity, rest and diet
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 2: Diet and dental health
To understand the benefits of healthy eating and dental health
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 3: Relaxation: stretches
To perform a range of relaxation stretches
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 4: Wonderful me
To understand the different aspects of my identity
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 5: My superpowers
To identify my own strengths and begin to see how they can affect others
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 6: Celebrating mistakes
o develop a growth mindset and understand that mistakes are useful
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 7: Communicating my feelings
To recognise when to give consent
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 8: My happiness
To identify what’s important to me and to take responsibility for my own happiness
Key skills
Related content
Resources
Unit resources
RSE & PSHE
RSE & PSHE: Vocabulary progression
Vocabulary progression document that outlines the new vocabulary introduced each year.
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