Y5/6 (A): Health and wellbeing
Learning about the importance of relaxation and sleep; understanding how to cope with failure; learning how to set goals and how to achieve goals; taking precautions while in the sun; healthy meals and ingredients; learning about different emotions and possible ways of dealing with a difficult situation.
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Y5/6 (A): Health and wellbeing
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Follow the instructions from the video, perform some of the yoga poses and describe how yoga makes them feel.
- Describe how they can get a good night’s sleep and why this is important.
- Describe why you should embrace failure.
- Describe a strategy to help manage their feelings of failure and to help them to persevere.
- Set themselves goals and consider how they will achieve them.
- Describe a range of feelings and two possible ways of dealing with a difficult situation.
- Demonstrate an understanding of what calories are and how to use them to help plan healthy meals.
- Recognise the food groups and acknowledge that having a variety of food on their dishes is important to achieving a balanced and healthy diet.
- Describe how to keep safe in the sun, including some of the risks now and in the future if they do not.
Suggested prior learning
Lessons
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 1: Relaxation: yoga
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 2: The importance of rest
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 3: Embracing failure
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 4: Going for goals
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 5: Taking responsibility for my feelings
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 6: Healthy meals
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 7: Sun safety
Key skills
Related content
Unit resources
Knowledge organiser: RSE & PSHE – Y5 Health and wellbeing
A pupil-facing summary document, capturing the key facts and knowledge from the Year 5 Health and wellbeing unit.
*NEW* Knowledge organiser: RSE & PSHE – Y6 Health and wellbeing
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit 'Y6 Health and wellbeing.'.
RSE & PSHE: Vocabulary progression
Vocabulary progression document that outlines the new vocabulary introduced each year.
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