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Lesson 5: Healthy body, healthy brain: Taking responsibility for my health

Consider how to look after an individual's physical and emotional well-being, along with the other aspects that need to be maintained to stay healthy.

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Learning objective

To understand and plan for a healthy lifestyle

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
H3. about choices that support a healthy lifestyle, and recognise what might influence these
H4. how to recognise that habits can have both positive and negative effects on a healthy lifestyle

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Download classroom resources

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: May need some examples to get them going or prompting questions to help them think of what they already do.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should describe how each of these areas can affect both mental and physical health.

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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