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Lesson 5: Healthy body, healthy brain: Importance of rest

Consider the factors that affect sleep to help create a comedy video guide on how to get the best night’s sleep possible.

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Learning objective

To understand the benefits of sleep

National curriculum

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

The PSHE Association Programme of Study recommends pupils are taught:

H1. how to make informed decisions about health
H2. about the elements of a balanced, healthy lifestyle
H8. about how sleep contributes to a healthy lifestyle; routines that support good quality sleep; the effects of lack of sleep on the body, feelings, behaviour and ability to learn

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Might need to be given some of the examples stated in the lesson plan to help give them ideas or could use the Activity: Script template example with some filled in examples.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should suggest varied ways their quality of sleep is affected as well as how this can negatively affect their mental and physical wellbeing.

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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