Be Food Smart: assembly presentation

This assembly PowerPoint presentation is a quick way to help pupils find out what's in their food and encourage them to make healthier swaps so they eat less sugar, saturated fat and salt.

"The assembly is very appealing. It's interactive and engaging, and provides you will the information you need."

Aimee Steedman, KS1 teacher

Try this

Prepare two measured amounts of sugar to show pupils or to pass around. 

Show the maximum daily sugar amount for a child aged 7 to 10 (6 cubes, or 24 grams), a child aged 4 to 6 (5 cubes, or 19 grams), and how much children consume in practice (13 cubes, or 52 grams)

Curriculum

Supports the PSHE, and science curricula

PSHE

• Core theme 1: Health and Wellbeing – healthy eating

KS1 Science

• Identify and classify
• Use data to help in answering questions
• Animals, including humans: describe the importance for humans of eating the right amounts of different types of food

KS2 Science

• Make systematic and careful observations and take accurate measurements
• Gather, record, classify and present data in a variety of ways to help in answering questions
• Record findings using simple scientific language, drawings, labelled diagrams, keys, bar charts, and tables 

• Report on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations, displays or presentations of results and conclusions
• Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition

In the classroom

The Be Food Smart assembly film is a quick, easy way to deliver an important healthy eating message to pupils.

The PowerPoint presentation links to a Be Food Smart assembly film, featuring two children acting as investigative reporters to find out how they can eat a healthier breakfast. The assembly can stand alone, or be used before delivering a lesson using the Be Food Smart: KS1 toolkit or the Be Food Smart: KS2 toolkit.