Primary School Resources
Health
Water for All
www.oxfam.org.uk
This free teacher’s resource uses colourful photos from Oxfam’s library, and interactive activities, to educate 9-11 year olds about the global importance of clean water. The activities encourage speaking and listening, the development of thinking skills and the use of graphs and charts. There are seven activities including quizzes, case studies and ideas for action, each supported in the teachers notes with a lesson guide and background information. As well as geography, the resource is also suitable for English, Citizenship, PSE, Maths, Science and Environmental Studies.
Mums Matter
www.oxfam.org.uk
This varied set of curriculum-linked activities for ages 8-11 explores the issue of healthcare for mothers and babies around the world.
Global Explorers
http://learn.christianaid.org.uk
Global Explorers is a fantastic, interactive whiteboard resource for primary schools. It features fascinating facts, quizzes, video footage, photos, lesson plans, worksheets and the real-life stories of children all over the world. For use with ages 7-11.
One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato More! (English and Welsh)
http://learn.christianaid.org.uk
This assembly explores the issues of sustainable farming and how a little bit of help - and a worm or two - can make a huge difference to communities. For ages 7-11.
Running on Empty
http://learn.christianaid.org.uk
An assembly for use with ages 7-11 looking at how healthy is the food we eat?
Children and Health Assembly
www.cafod.org.uk
An assembly looking at issues of healthcare for children in Nigeria, for use in primary schools.
Water for Life
www.cafod.org.uk
A primary school resource.
Water Challenge
www.cafod.org.uk
This fun interactive PowerPoint quiz explores issues around access to clean, safe drinking water.
Living and Learning with Water
www.livingandlearningwithwater.com
A wealth of interesting information and resources all linked to the National Curriculum, and developed with educational experts, to stimulate and educate Key Stage 2 pupils.
Healthy Living
www.wateraid.org
A range of resources to help primary school pupils learn about healthy living.
Heal the school
www.healtheschool.org.uk
Information, resources and help for lesson planning, and plenty of printable worksheets. Interactive sites for pre-school to secondary.
Sneeze Safe
www.kleenex.co.uk
Exciting healthy education programme about tissue training for teachers of pupils aged 4-6, which has been written by education experts and trialled in schools. Includes stories, games, lesson plans and downloads.
Child Nutrition in Afghanistan
www.unicef.org.uk
A primary school assembly - Child nutrition in Afghanistan: 'My children are smaller than others'. This is the story of Rahera, her mother and small brothers who live in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Water and Health – A Teaching Unit
www.unicef.org.uk
This is a teaching unit with information and activities for 5-14-year-olds on water and health.
Thank you for the Food we Eat
www.rspca.org.uk
This session is aimed at Early years/Foundation stage and KS1 pupils. It introduces pupils to the idea that much of our food and things we use every day come from animals, and that the animals deserve to have a happy and healthy life.
Global Explorers
http://learn.christianaid.org.uk
Global Explorers is a fantastic, interactive whiteboard resource for primary schools. It features fascinating facts, quizzes, video footage, photos, lesson plans, worksheets and the real-life stories of children all over the world
Smoking Ban
http://news.bbc.co.uk
A lesson looking at the smoking ban in Britain.
What counts as bullying?
http://news.bbc.co.uk
A lesson for use with KS2 and 3.
It’s your life
www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk
This interactive resource encourages pupils to consider the basic ingredients of a healthy lifestyle. It contains several activities to promote thinking skills in the classroom, using a 'day in the life' of two children, Sophie and Bryn.
Far away Fruit Salad
www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk
An interactive resource that promotes healthy eating whilst encouraging pupils to consider where the food comes from and its effect on communities and the planet Earth. Pupils can use a simple database to compare and select fruits for their fruit salad before finding out how much of a carbon impact their salad has on the planet. Pupils are also given the opportunity to debate the positive and negative impacts of a global market and look at case studies of farmers around the World.
Healthy Lifestyles
www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk
This unit encourages learners to consider some of the factors that may affect healthy lifestyles such as diet and exercise. A variety of open-ended activities invite learners to think of their own ideas and to reflect on some of the choices available to them. The unit focuses explicitly on some Welsh foods and the availability and flavours of locally produced foods.