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Healthy Habits Snapshot

Healthy Habits Snapshot

Overview

Teaching young people about developing and sustaining healthy habits is important as it can help by preventing health conditions such as obesity and diabetes to improve mental health, increased confidence, better social skills, resilience, and a more positive outlook. A healthy lifestyle will give the young people a strong foundation of physical and mental benefits. This will set them up for the rest of their lives.
 
Using the National Curriculum, we have linked as many opportunities as possible to support the delivery of healthy habits through a range of different subject areas. These opportunities can be used to either deliver the topic as a stand-alone or through cross-curricular planning with a number of different subject areas, depending on the focus of the school.
The suggested lessons allow you to broadly focus on mental health topics using the 10 fundamentals and the five-step process. It's important to link these to youth social action and how learning can make a difference.
 
Each lesson plan lightly integrates the learning or practice of a specific life/employability skill, such as oracy, teamwork, reflection, and/or problem-solving. In addition, each lesson links learning to potential youth social projects that other young people have delivered to make a difference.
 
Additional Resources

  1. When can we teach about Healthy Habits? – Curriculum Integration
    (Relationship, Sex and Health Education, Personal, Social, Health Education, Citizenship, Science, RE, English, Music, Art, and Information technology)
  2. Key dates to raise mental health and well-being throughout the year.
  3. Background Reading
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    Teaching Healthy Habits

    Key Stage 1Key stage 2

    Key Stages 3 and 4

     

    Case Studies
    Authors: Sonia Berglund, Mahreen Hassan and Samia Akram
    Edited: James Murray
    Quality Assured by: TBC
Key Stage: KS 1, KS 2, KS 3, KS 4
Social Issue: Healthy Habits
YSA Step: Explore
Resource Type: Key Overview
Subject(s): Citizenship & PSHE, Science, English, Maths, History, Geography, Physical Education, Information Technology, Food Technology, Music
Owner: Ormiston Trust

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