
Bodycare is a health promotion scheme which targets primary school children. It is run by a trained instructor within schools over a six week period. The lessons last one hour and cover a range of classroom and practical activities.
WEEK 1 – THEORY
- Introduction to the scheme – aims / How to earn fit ticks
- Identify major organs in the body and their roles
- Find pulse and take resting heart rate – effects of exercise on resting heart rate
WEEK 1 – PRACTICAL
- Warm-up (feel pulse afterwards)
- Fitness Circuit
WEEK 1 – THEORY
- Find pulse and take heart rate
- Identify major organs of the body
- Questions – Effect of warm up / exercise
WEEK 2 – THEORY
- How to measure chest expansion
- Identify how the blood travels around the body and transports oxygen and carbon dioxide to
- different parts of the body
- Questions in workbooks
- Word search – in own time (or if finish work quickly)
WEEK 2 – PRACTICAL
- The Heart & Lung Circuit WEEK 2 – THEORY
- Explain the food record chart
WEEK 3 – THEORY
- Using food chart, identify different nutrients / food groups
- Identify which foods contain which nutrients – Matching Game
- Identify why we need all the nutrients
- The meaning of a balanced diet
- Evaluating food record sheets
- Questions – Energy balance
WEEK 3 – PRACTICAL
- Balancing your Energy game
WEEK 4 – THEORY
- What is meant by “lifestyle”
- Explain how a person’s lifestyle can consist of many things that can be both healthy and
- unhealthy.
- Question – the benefits of an active lifestyle
WEEK 4 – PRACTICAL
- Using certain equipment, children will be required to work in groups to design a playground game, with 3 rules
- Demonstration of games WEEK 4 – THEORY
- Write up the details of the game
- Fitness Circuit
WEEK 5 – THEORY
- Questions – fitness improvements?
- Crossword – in own time (or if finish questions quickly)
- “Bodycare Quiz”
- Collect work booklets
WEEK 6 – PRESENTATION
- Presentation of ‘fit tick sticker’ certificates and prizes if you decide to give out prizes WEEK 6 –
- Design Bodycare poster