Sugar Smart Promise

An activity for pupils to express why they need to cut down on sugar and make a promise for healthier alternatives. Part of the Food Detectives KS2 lesson plan. Includes:

• Spying on Sugar – fact sheet
• Sugar Smart Promise – poster for pupils
• Sugar Smart Family Promise – poster for parents to get involved.

A fun way to get pupils thinking about healthy swap ideas at home and engage their parents.

Get the parents involved!

Why don’t the pupils try to make sugar swapping a family commitment?

Having identified an area of improvement in their diet, each family member can record a promised swap on the Sugar Smart Family Promise sheet.

Curriculum

Supports the science, design and technology and English curricula:

Science

• Gathering, recording, classifying and presenting data (including results) in a variety of ways to help in answering questions
• Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
• Recognise the impact of diet, exercise and lifestyle on the way their bodies function

Design and Technology

• Investigate and analyse a range of existing products
• Understand and apply the principles of a healthy and varied diet

English – spoken

• Articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions
• Give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes

In the classroom

Give pupils the Spying on Sugar fact sheet, explaining that the first part of their homework task is to share what they have discovered about sugar with their families, using the fact sheet as a prompt.

Present the Sugar Smart Promise poster. Tell the pupils that they are to create a poster that will increase awareness of why we need to cut down on sugar, make them aware of the sugar content in various products and encourage them to swap to a healthier option, in the form of a promise. These posters may later be displayed in and around the classroom and school.

Learning objectives

By the end of these activities, pupils will be able to:

• understand and compare the sugar content in a variety of food and drink products
• select lower-sugar alternatives to high-sugar products