KS1 & KS2 science curriculum

This unit builds on pupils' prior learning from Healthy me, where they explored the importance of exercise, balanced nutrition, and hygiene for maintaining good health. In Keeping healthy, pupils will deepen their understanding by learning how lifestyle choices, such as diet and physical activity, affect long-term health and well-being. This prepares them for the next unit, Diet and exercise, where they will explore the specific impacts of nutrition and exercise on the body, reinforcing how healthy habits contribute to overall fitness and health.

1. The impact of a balanced diet
2. Healthy and sustainable proteins (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability)
3. Mushrooms and mycoprotein (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability)
4. Healthy heart rate
5. Heart recovery time after exercise
6. Healthy hearts
7. Legal and illegal drugs
8. The impact of smoking
9. The impact of alcohol
10. Monitoring and improving lifestyle choices
11. Evidence about healthy lifestyle: do and review (non-statutory)
12. Evidence about healthy lifestyle: presentation (non-statutory)

• Describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene
• Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition
• Identify that animals including humans cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat