Youth Social Action Resource Hub

Background reading investigates: - what being healthy is? - the factors contributing to and the inability to remain healthy, and - how being healthy is part of every child's human right.

Ideas on how you can embed Youth Social Action within the Key stage 2 curriculum

Exploring the 5-step process through questioning why? what? how? when? and now what?

Background information on teaching young people about creating and developing healthy habits This can support the basis of teaching young people about social action.

This guide on healthy habits focuses on the importance of being healthy. It maps opportunities as to when healthy habits can be delivered across the national curriculum with suggested activities; it includes background reading and four lesson plans that can be used to deliver the topic of being healthy as part of the inspire and inform steps of the Youth Social Action Process. Young people should be able to use this learning to plan, act and reflect on Social Action projects that are important to them. This guide can be read to obtain an overview of the connections made with the National Curriculum. It can also inform the planning of activities that will teach social action skills or inform future social action planning.

The following curriculum guide provide links to integrate the topic of Healthy Habits within the National Curriculum at Key Stage 1. It can be read to obtain an overview of the connections made with the National Curriculum. It can also inform the planning of activities that will teach social action skills or inform future social action planning.