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Lesson 5: Healthy body, healthy brain: Ready for bed

Children reflect on how they get ready for bed and learn about the benefits and importance of getting a good night’s sleep.

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Learning objective

To understand the benefits of physical activity and rest.

National curriculum

All schools should make provision for personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE), drawing on good practice.

PSHE Association Programme of Study:

Pupils should be taught:

H1. about what keeping healthy means; different ways to keep healthy
H4. about why sleep is important and different ways to rest and relax

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

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Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Might need to look at the Activity: Child’s bedroom image to help discuss what they might find in their rooms at home, as well as how these things can help them get a good night’s sleep.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should articulate the effects of getting a good night’s sleep vs a bad night’s sleep and relate that to their own experiences, eg: feeling moody, low on energy, unable to concentrate vs happy, full of energy, alert.

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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