PSHE

Lesson: Personal, Social and Emotional Education

Autumn 1

PSHE

We had lots of dicussion during our first PSHE lesson. We are learning about relationships. In our first lesson we had fun looking at and sorting a variety of images, we were then asked to use some new vocabulary during our discussions such as; 'likes', 'dislikes' and 'I prefer'. Throughout this lesson, we discovered that we do not all like or dislike the same things, but this is ok because these are the things that make us 'unique'

October

We have been learning all about our bodies and how to keep ourselves safe. We are all familiar with the scientific names for our bodies and can distinguish the differences between males and females. We also know what to do and who to tell if we are worried about something. Below you can see how we have drawn around one of our friends and worked as a team team to label all of our body parts. we then went on to write the names of the body parts that we could remember. You can also see a selection of the posters we created to remind everyone how to keep themselves safe.

November 

We have been learning all about keeping healthy, emphasising this month on healthy foods. We explored different types of foods and their effects on our bodies. We have learned that occassionally it is fine to eat foods that are not very beneficial to our health but we need to consider eating these in moderation. We worked in groups to sort foods into catagories ; healthy and not healthy.

December

We continued with our 'keeping healthy' theme this month, concentrating on hygiene. We discussed all of the different ways that we can keep clean from; washing, bathing, cleaning teeth, clean clothes etc. We had fun focussing on keeping our hands clean and washing them effectively to prevent spreading germs. We did some experiments such as covering our hands in vaseline (dirt and grime) and glitter (germs)and used avariety of ways to 'clean' our hands. First we tried to just use a paper towel to wipe away the dirt - there was no change to the amount of germs (glitter) on our hands, then we rinsed them under cold water- still not good enough! After this we warm water alone - this was effective but it did not clear away ALL of the germ. The warm soapy water and washing for 2 minutes worked best!  We also place an untouched piece of bread and a handled piece of bread into seperate bags and watched the changes over time. We found that the braed that was touched developped more mould more quickly than the untouched piece.