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====Home>>> Task>>>Teacher Resources>>> References ==== **Teachers:** Marisa Cipriano, Rangimarie Kings, Zoe Lake and Aimee Weier **Subject areas:** Health and Physical Education, Technology and Enterprise **Topic:** Health, Nutrition and Wellbeing **Year Group:** 5 **Time Period:** 8 weeks   
 * Curriculum Allignment: **

The food we eat does more than provide our bodies with nutrients to function daily. It is responsible for our social health, our emotional health and our physical health. Much of what we do centres around the food we eat, the meals we prepare and the choices we make when we are hungry. A sound understanding of what we should be eating is important for everyone to be familiar with but especially so for the youngest members of the community...our children. In educating children to make healthy, informed choices about the foods they choose, we are not only helping them to function well on a daily basis, we are establishing a lifelong habit of healthy eating that will ensure a positive effect on their overall health and wellbeing.
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**<span style="color: #e92e07; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Why we think it is important to teach health, nutrition and wellbeing to students. **
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The topic we have chosen revolves mainly around the idea of teaching health and nutrition in primary school. The motivation for this comes from the fact that learning how to make healthy lifestyle choices when young will then become second nature when children are growing up. Considering we are bombarded with facts and statistics about the decline in good health choices, obesity and other health related diseases, we feel it should be compulsory for health and nutrition to be taught in schools. Currently in schools, health is not compulsory, but is often covered during physical education classes. The goal in our group task was to aim towards spending an hour a week in class teaching children about health and nutrition. Young children are often not interested in learning how to make positive choices now which will affect them in their future. Therefore our group has aimed to make learning about health and nutrition as entertaining and as interactive as possible. We also feel that dedicating one hour a week is a realistic expectation of teachers and of students for that matter. The tasks and activities we have chosen to relate to the topics and have the students complete are designed to be enjoyable without any unreasonable expectations placed on the students. We feel that in approaching the topic in this way, with an authentic set of tasks encouraging engagement between student, parents/families and teacher, we have the best chance of educating year 5 students about matters of health and wellbeing that they will continue to use throughout their lives.

<span style="color: #e92e07; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Please click on the video below to see our Masterclass power point presentation.** media type="custom" key="18472612" width="537" height="505" align="center" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">media type="youtube" key="4SJ3T6EM3qU?version=3" height="180" width="320" align="left"

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> This a video we have found on youtube and thought was a rather interesting take on the importance of teaching health and nutrition is schools. It is created by teacher and poet Taylor Mali. Just another example of how to make teaching fun!



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