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Lesson 5: Healthy body, healthy brain: Being active

With inspiration from athletes such as Dina Asher-Smith, children learn the importance of exercise and consider different and fun ways of staying active.

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Learning objective

National curriculum

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: May need to follow example activities and guidance with recognising the effects of exercise on the body.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should be able to describe how exercise releases hormones that make them feel good. Can suggest a range of physical activities designed to keep them healthy.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

In this unit

Created by:

Elaine Bousfield,

Wellbeing specialist

Elaine worked for many years as a therapist with young people. She is the founder and chair of XenZone and its children and young people’s counselling service, kooth.com. Kooth delivers an online counselling and therapy service. It is also an online community…

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