Keeping Healthy

Learn about how to maintain a healthy lifestyle!

Lesson steps

Ask children what they need to stay healthy, and why do we need to keep our bodies healthy?

Ask children what their favourite foods are. Go through and answer the Healthy or Unhealthy quiz as a class.

Healthy or Unhealthy Quiz

Can you answer which foods are healthy or unhealthy?

Write all the foods on the board, then together sort them into healthy and unhealthy.

Alternatively, if you have a box of toy food, sort these.

Talk to the children about a balanced diet!

What does that mean? How many meals should you have a day? What should you drink?

Together, read the Healthy Living pack and learn how to lead a healthy lifestyle!

Healthy Living Pack

Learn about keeping healthy and complete some fun activities! Created in partnership with Eco-Schools.

Learning outcomes

Know and talk about the different factors that support their overall health and wellbeing.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Questions

How many fruits and vegetables do you need every day?

What is a balanced diet?

Why is water important?

What is your favourite meal?

Vocabulary

Healthy

Unhealthy

Balanced diet

Fruits

Vegetables

Fitness

Strength

Talking points

Should you eat chocolate every day?

Activity ideas

Make a Healthy Lunch

Make sure you only pack healthy food.

Make a Healthy Lunch

Can you create a healthy lunch out of recycled materials?

Tomato Day

Pick a healthy food theme. For example it could be tomatoes. Ask children to bring in a variety of different tomatoes. Cherry tomato, large tomato, yellow tomato, green tomato, crushed tomatoes. Sample the tomatoes and give opinions on taste and texture. Which is the winning tomato?