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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Describe qualities or values they want to develop and create achievable goals.
- Describe the importance of relaxation and suggest different strategies.
- Describe how they take care of their physical wellbeing.
- Understand that technology can have an impact on physical and mental health and know some strategies they can use to overcome this.
- Describe what resilience is, why it is important and some useful resilience strategies.
- Understand how vaccination works and why it is important to individuals.
- Understand that habits can be good or bad for health.
- Understand that changes in their body could indicate illness and know what to do if they notice them.
Suggested prior learning
Y5 Health and wellbeing
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Lessons
Lesson 1: What can I be?
Lesson 2: Relaxation: Mindfulness
Lesson 3: Taking responsibility for my health
Lesson 4: The impact of technology on health
Lesson 5: Resilience toolbox
Lesson 6: Immunisation
Lesson 7: Good and bad habits
Lesson 8: Physical health concerns
Key skills
- Considering ways to prevent
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Key knowledge
- To understand that vaccinations
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Key vocabulary
antibodies
growth mindset
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser: RSE & PSHE – Y6 Health and wellbeing
A pupil-facing summary document, capturing the key learning from this Year 6 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 6: Health and wellbeing
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Year 6: Health and wellbeing unit.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Music
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians’.
See National curriculum - Music key stages 1 to 2.
Science
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function’.
See National curriculum - Science key stages 1 to 2.
Computing
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly; recognise acceptable/unacceptable behaviour; identify a range of ways to report concerns about content and contact.’
See National curriculum - Computing key stages 1 to 2.
English
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates’.
See National curriculum - English key stages 1 to 2.
British values: Individual liberty.