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KS2
Years 3-6
This six-week healthy eating KS2 plan introduces pupils to key healthy eating messages, which will inform and empower them to take control over their wellbeing, to enable them to live healthier lives.
Using the Eatwell Guide as a starting point, children will learn about the different food groups. They’ll go on to discuss:
- why some foods must be consumed in moderation
- how to judge portion sizes
- why it’s important to drink plenty of water every day
Healthy eating KS2 learning objectives
- Explain what the Eatwell Guide is and how can it help us to eat more healthily
- Place foods in the correct food group on the Eatwell Guide
- Understand the phrase ‘5-a-day’ and consider different ways to reach the 5-a-day goal
- Understand the importance of eating a healthy breakfast and be able to make healthy breakfast choices
- Explain what a healthy snack is and be able to read a traffic light food label
- Understand what a healthy lunch could consist of and plan a healthy lunch using the Eatwell Guide as a tool
- Understand why it is important to drink, how much we should drink each day, which drinks are healthy options, and which drinks we should have less often
Week 1 activities
Show Slide 3, which introduces the Eatwell Guide, and explain what the model shows. Highlight the different food groups and explain their nutritional benefits using Slide 4.
Ask for suggestions of foods that fit in each group and explain that we need to eat more of some foods, such fruit and vegetables from the green section and carbohydrates from the yellow section, than we do foods from other groups.
This is because our bodies need different amounts of different foods to have a balanced diet and stay healthy.
Show Slide 5 and highlight the foods outside of the Eatwell Guide (e.g. crisps, cakes and sweets). These are high in fat, salt and sugar and are foods our bodies don’t need to be healthy.
Explain that it is fine to eat them occasionally, but less often and in smaller quantities.
Using hoops with food group name labels, work as a class to place a range of different foods in the correct groups, whilst discussing their nutritional qualities.
To consolidate this learning, play Food Group Corners. Place the five food group name labels around the hall, call out a food and the pupils must run to the food group which the item belongs to.
Next, play What is it? Sit the children in a circle, play some music and pass a food-filled bag around the circle.
When the music stops, the child holding the bag selects an item and describes it to the class. The other pupils need to guess what the food is and then decide which food group it belongs in.
Hannah Shaw previously worked as a primary school teacher and is now the consultant teacher for the PhunkyFoods programme.
