What's included in the Healthy Eating Whole School Assembly PowerPoint resource and why is it useful?

Healthy Eating Whole School Assembly PowerPoint is a slideshow that helps children understand what a balanced diet looks like and how to make healthier food choices. The content includes 12 slides, with separate thinking prompts for KS1 and KS2, covering the Eatwell Plate, fruit and vegetables, starchy food, protein, dairy, sugars, snacks and healthy snack swaps. It links to PSHE health and wellbeing and to cooking and nutrition in design and technology.

The Eatwell Plate and a Balanced Diet

Slides on each food group and what it does for our bodies, opening with the question "Have you seen this Eatwell Plate before?"

Healthy Snacks

Why healthy snacks matter, the 5 a day message and simple snack swaps, such as veggie sticks instead of crisps and water instead of a sugary drink, ending with "Can you try a healthy new snack this week?"

How do our whole school assemblies work?

Our whole school assemblies are PowerPoint slideshows that follow a similar structure: an introduction, questions to get children thinking, the key points of the topic and reflection time. They're paced to suit a primary school assembly and work best on a whiteboard, projected out to the hall. You can use them:

• as a whole school assembly, from EYFS up to KS2
• as a class assembly
• as a teaching PowerPoint when you want to cover an event or topic in your own classroom

The majority of our assemblies include teacher notes and guidance to support delivery, and because they're pacey, you can adapt them to however long your assembly lasts.

Adapting the Assembly for Your School

Every assembly is editable, so you can add, remove or change slides to suit the needs of your school. We cover religious events, seasonal topics, values such as kindness, friendship and tolerance, science, history, PSHE, music, significant people and sporting events, so you can choose the assemblies that fit your school year.

Supporting Learning at Home

Families can carry the conversation on at home by asking children about their assembly: what they heard, how it made them feel and what they think about it.

You can explore more of our whole school assembly resources here.