Healthy Eating (Primary)

Curriculum content:

1. What constitutes a healthy diet (including understanding calories and other
nutritional content).
2. Understanding the importance of a healthy relationship with food.
3. The principles of planning and preparing a range of healthy meals.
4. The characteristics of a poor diet and risks associated with unhealthy eating
(including, for example, obesity and tooth decay) and other behaviours (e.g. the
impact of alcohol on diet or health).

• Food teaching in primary schools: knowledge and skills framework Support for primary schools to implement the requirements for food teaching within the new National Curriculum for Design and Technology (D&T) in England and the Core Competencies for Children and Young People.
• Food – A Fact of Life Training Food – A Fact of Life provide free resources and lesson plans to support teaching staff with the delivery of healthy eating lessons in school.
• PSHE Association Healthy Eating lesson pack One KS1 lesson (healthy foods) and two KS2 lessons (balanced diet and influences) (membership required)
• KS1 and KS2 Health education Two KS1 lessons and 5 KS2 lessons from the PSHE Association on the importance of healthy food choices and physical activity (membership required)