Healthy and confident individuals

Discuss with the children the importance of eating healthily. Ask them to think of foods that are healthy and unhealthy. Conduct a blind tasting session with fruit, encourage the children to use their senses to guess each fruit.

Use the chart to conduct a fruit tasting with 4 new fruits. Think about what the fruit is and what it tastes like? What does it feel like? Encourage the children to think about their favourite fruit and why.

Use the chart to conduct a fruit tasting with 2 new fruits. Think about what the fruit is and what it tastes like? What does it feel like? Encourage the children to think about their favourite fruit and why.

Sort the foods into two categories, healthy and unhealthy. Think about why they put them in each category and provide reasons.

Challenge the children to create a healthy lunchbox or meal. This can be done physically or on the sheets provided. Encourage the children to use a range of foods from all the food groups to create a healthy and balanced meal.

Complete the healthy lunch box. Encourage the children to draw what they would like to include and write below what they have included and why.

Complete the healthy lunch box. Encourage the children to draw what they would like to include and think about why they have included it.

Use this presentation to introduce to the children how to stay safe around medicine.