AUTUMN 2010: Healthy lifestyles for Years 1 & 2
The eatwell plate is the way the Food Standards Agency talks about food groups, and it is widely used in schools. It is used in Fit for a King.
The official site can be found at http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/healthydiet/eatwellplate/.
There is also a series of useful podcasts by the British Nutrition Foundation. These are probably too advanced for your class, but could help you if you needed more information. This is this first in the series:
Health Education Unit Resource Library
NACE, Oliver Street, Nechells
8.30am – 4pm Tel: 0121 359 8007
Online catalogue at www.bgfl.org/healthed
Health Education Unit
Martineau Education Centre
Balden Rd
Harborne,
B32 2EH
Tel: 0121 303 8200
For curriculum support and development.
Schools’ dietitian/ nutritionist
St Patrick’s Centre for Community Health,
Frank Street,
Highgate,
Birmingham,
B12 0YA
Tel: 0121 446 1021
Health Exchange
Birmingham Central Library
Chamberlain Square
B3 3HQ
Tel: 0121 303 2680
www.food.gov.uk
Food Standards Agency Publications
www.welltown.gov.uk
Interactive site for health Education for key stage 1
www.active.org.uk
Fun activities you can provide for a healthy lifestyle
www.bbc.co.uk/eductaion/id
BBC site containing pupil activities for various PSHE and citizenship topics
www.wiredforhealth.gov.uk
The official National Healthy School website. Information for teachers on all aspects of health education and related issues
Healthy Diets for Infants and Young Children. MAFF Publications 1997.
Eating Well for Looked After Children and Young People. The Caroline Walker Trust. 2001
The Diets of British School Children. Dept of Health. Her Majesty’s Stationary Office. 1997
1 A DAY – Just Eat More. Dept of Health 2003.
Healthy Eating Just imagine (Article) Marie Jeanne McNaughton. Drama Magazine Winter 2003
Fun to Learn: My Body. Arianne Holden. Lorenz Books. ISBN 1-85967-833-5
Down the Hatch. Mike Lambourne. Cassell. ISBN 0-30432254-7
Why Wash? Claire Llewellyn. Wayland. ISBN 0-7502-2327-8
What Happens to Your Food? Alastair Smith. Usborne. ISBN 07460-2505-X
Safe and Sound: A Healthy Body. Angela Royston. Heinemann. ISBN 0-431-09141-2
Safe and Sound: Eat Well. Angela Royston. Heinemann. ISBN 0-431-09143-9
With the increased profile of the healthy lifestyle agenda there is much contradictory information circulating. We have gathered current national guidelines and advice that you might like to pass on your pupils.
Children should take part in physical activity for an hour a day (this could be playing tag, skipping or cycling, for example)
We should eat five portions of fresh fruit or vegetables a day (a portion is a handful)
We need calories, salt, sugar, fat and saturates every day to stay fit and well. But too much can make us ill in the long term. Guideline Daily Amounts (GDAs) have been calculated for the five key nutrients.
The GDA for calories for an average adult is 2000
The GDA for sugars for an average adult is 90g.
The GDA for fat for an average adult is 70g.
The GDA for saturates for an average adult is 20g
The GDA for salt for an average adult is 6g.
There are no formal guidelines on personal hygiene – in fact advice is often contradictory. You might like to take the opportunity to discuss with pupils the following:
Hands should be washed before eating or cooking and after anything where there might be germs: using the toilet, playing in dirt or with animals, taking out rubbish, coughing or sneezing on your hands etc You could write a list with your class of when else hands should be washed..
Shower or take a bath regularly. Ask how often members of your class shower or bath.
Faces should be washed regularly. Ask how often memebers of your class wash their faces.
Advice about washing hair is often contradictory, and might depend on hair type, length of hair etc. (although regular hair care will help the early detection of head lice). See what your class say about washing or brushing their hair
Dentists recommend that teeth are brushed at least twice a day, but some people brush three times and floss and rinse with mouth wash. What do your class think?
Fit for a King connects with PSHE & citizenship
curriculum for Key Stage 1 and also makes links with parts of the P.E, English and Science curriculum.
PSHE and Citizenship – Non Statutory guidelines
Developing a healthy, safer lifestyle.
3 Pupils should be taught
A how to make simple choices that improve their
health and well being.
B to maintain personal hygiene.
C how some diseases spread and can be controlled.
D about the process of growing from young to old
and how the needs of people change
E the names of the main parts of the body
Breadth of study
5 During the key stage pupils should be taught the knowledge, skills and understanding through opportunities to
D make real choices (for example between healthy options in school meals,
what to watch of T.V, what games to play).
Science
Science 2 Life processes and living things
Humans and other animals
2 Pupils should be taught
B that humans and other animals need food and water to stay alive
C that taking exercise and eating the right types and amounts of food help
humans to keep healthy
P.E.
Knowledge and understanding of fitness and health
4 Pupils should be taught
A how important it is to be active.
B to recognise and describe how their bodies feel during different activities
English
Speaking 1 To speak clearly, fluently and confidently to different people pupils should be taught to
C organise what they say
E include relevant detail
F take in to account the needs of their listeners
Listening 1 To listen, understand and respond to others pupils should be taught to
A sustain concentration
C make relevant comments
Group discussion and interaction 1 To join in as members of a group pupils should be taught to
A take turns in speaking
B relate their contributions to what has gone on before.
E give reasons for opinions and actions
Drama
1 To participate in a range of drama pupils should be taught to
A use language and actions to explore and convey
situations, characters and emotions
Drama activities
11 The range should include:
A working in role
The programme also links into
SEAL (Social & Emotional Aspects of Learning)
- friendship and belonging
- seeing things from another’s point of view
- working together
- managing feelings
- problem solving
The programme begins in the classroom when the class meet Cookie. She works for Prince Yannis and has been sent to recruit cooks to prepare the Prince’s coronation banquet. The children go to the hall where they enter the Royal Palace and meet the Prince himself learning of his unhealthy life style through puppetry and storytelling.
With the guidance of Cookie the children are encouraged to plan a healthy balanced diet for him through a visual art activity.
The children help the Prince get fit as he prepares for the Annual Dragon Chasing Competition and debate what constitutes exercise.
There will be a short break at this point.
After break the children witness the results of their efforts as they watch the dragon chasing event and advise Prince Yannis on his personal hygiene as he returns to the Palace.
The cook and the children then help the king to review all the factors that will help him to maintain a balanced, healthier life in the future.
The coronation happens with the children as honoured guests.
Aim
Outcomes
Healthy eating and physical exercise are fundamental to proper growth and development in childhood. Enabling children and young people to develop patterns of healthy eating and exercise will also lay the foundations for healthier lifestyles in adulthood.
Recent research has shown that 80% of three year olds in the U.K are getting just 20 minutes medium to vigorous exercise a day instead of the minimum of one hour a day to keep them healthy. As well as a lack of exercise, a significant number of children have diets that are lacking recommended levels of nutrition. Most commonly they are too low in zinc, calcium and vitamins and too high in sugars and salt.
Fit for a King is a participatory drama programme that explores what it means to have a balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle and why this is important.
The programme asks these key questions:
Through the fictional character of Prince Yannis, Fit for a King will explore some of the choices that Key Stage 1 children make concerning nutrition, exercise and hygiene. The children offer advice in the drama about the Prince’s lifestyle and see how particular choices affect his health. They are introduced to the idea that a healthy diet contains food from different groups and that these foods are used in a variety of ways by the body. The programme also explores basic personal hygiene and how the body burns energy and needs to exercise to keep fit.
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