ES1 Personal Development, Health and Physical Education Program Term 3, 2015.

Length of unit: 10 weeks.

Content Strands: Communicating, Decision Making, Personal Health Choices, Safe Living.
Values and Attitudes:
V4 Increasingly accepts responsibility for personal and community health.
Values their health and safety of others
Defends the need for making decisions that enhance health
Appraises the values and attitudes of different groups within society in relation to lifestyle and health
Appreciates the need for shared responsibility and decision making
Appreciates the need for safe practices in a range of situations and environments
Values the need to pursue healthy lifestyles
Outcomes and Indicators:
COES1.1 Expresses feelings, needs and wants in appropriate ways.
Identifies people who can help them
Prepares simple health messages using different media
DMES1.2 Identifies some options available when making simple decisions.
Chooses between safe and unsafe situations
Generates a number of solutions to a problem.
PHES1.12 Displays basic positive health choices.
Describes good hygiene practices
Discusses the safe use and storage of medicines
Identifies health care workers who can help them e.g doctors, nurses, dentists
SLES1.13 Demonstrates an emerging awareness of the concepts of safe and unsafe living.
Identifies people who keep them safe
Describes safe places to play
Describes dangerous things they can see, reach and touch e.g. medicines

Teaching / Learning Activities.

One lesson per week 60 minutes duration.
Wee
k

Teaching Activities
Lesson Focus: Sensing Safety
Safe Living discuss what it feels like to be in a safe environment: Sounds like?
Looks like? Feels like?

Complete a Y chart recording the ideas that the children suggest. Headings for
sections Safety looks like. Safety feels like.. Safety sounds like
Read I Can be Safe by Pat Thomas and reflect. Add to the Y chart if needed

Lesson Focus: Safety First

Brainstorm what students need to do to make sure they are safe in different situations
under the following heading: (Model)
In a car
Crossing a road
At school
At home
Other

Resources
Butchers
Paper with Y
chart
prepared
Textas

Assessment

Preassessment
of
understandin
g safety

I Can be
Safe by Pat
Thomas
A3 of
scaffold
Student
worksheet

Preassessment
of
understandin
g safety

Students complete a worksheet where they draw/write some of the answers

brainstormed under the appropriate heading.
Lesson Focus: Safe and Unsafe.

Students view Tiger House online and discuss unsafe settings in the home.
https://www.nationwideeducation.co.uk/safety-education/home-safety/students/0407_being-safe-home/int_storybook_page.php

Student
worksheet.
Situations &
pictures

Assessment
of DMES1.2
identifying
safe & unsafe

Evaluatio
n

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Discuss how each situation is safe or unsafe. Discuss what needs to be done to stay
safe in these situations.

situations
Interactive
book

Students have various pictures with unsafe situations in various settings of the home.
Circle the unsafe things in each situation then colour it in.
Lesson Focus: People and services that help keep us safe

Discuss & brainstorm

Who helps to keep us safe and healthy?
What things do they do to help us?
Where do these people work?
How can we tell who they are?
What is their role?

Photos of
people who
help us.
Student
scaffold
sheet

Students draw a picture of people who keep us safe and how they do it. Students
complete the sentence to go with their picture.
[WHO] helps keep me safe by [WHAT DO THEY DO?]

Assessment
of identifying
COES1.1
Identifies
people who
can help them
safe & unsafe
situations

Lesson Focus: People and services that help keep us safe

5
Re-visit last lessons poster of who keeps us safe in the community and briefly discuss
how they do it.
Students complete a craft activity of people in our community who keep us safe from
the selection:
Teacher
Policeman
Fireman
Doctor
Nurse
Dentist
Stick onto an A3 page and copy their corrected sentence from last week about their

Craft
Worksheet
A3 paper
Last weeks
poster
Last weeks
sentences

Assessment
of identifying
COES1.1 &
PHES1.12

person under their craft.

6/7

Lesson Focus: Signs and symbols in the community and home that help keep
us safe
Look at a variety of signs that we see in the local community that help to keep us
safe.
Road signs
Pedestrian crossing/ traffic lights
Neighbourhood signs
Police, fire and ambulance
Signs in the home
School safety signs
Product safety signs
Other community safety signs.
Blue & White together for activity
Various investigation activities:
Draw safe & unsafe situations using signs & symbols
Roll-play safe & unsafe situations with dress ups/props
Make a safe road setting with blocks
Design your own safety sign & explain its purpose, who will use it?
Magnetic play with settings
Home
Classroom
Kitchen
Road

Examples of
signs
Dress ups
A3 signs
Blocks, cars,
etc
Paper

Assessment
of
SLES1.13
Identifying &
using signs in
the
community

Crayons
Cardboard
Magnetic
situations

Lesson Focus: Feeling sick.

8

On a poster have the headings SICK and WELL.

Discuss the following questions and list answers under each heading on the poster.
Discussion questions:
When was the last time you felt sick?

Butchers
paper
Student

Assessment
of PHES1.12,
displays basic
positive

How do you feel when you are sick?

Who looks after you when you are sick?
What feelings do you have when you are well?
What can you do when you are feeling sick?
What they might do when feeling well.
Include who looks after them when they are sick

worksheet.

health
choices

Students complete worksheet on SICK and WELL. Draw/write about something they
can do when feeling sick and something they can do when feeling well.
Lesson Focus: Medicines.
9

Discussion questions:
What are medicines for?
When do you need to take medicine?
Who gives you medicine?
What do some medicines taste like? Look like?
What are the rules when taking medicine?
Take the correct dose, only let an adult give it to you i.e. your mum or dad or Mrs
Hutchings, Mrs Murphy or Mrs Polo at school, make sure it is stored safely out of the
reach of children
Do all medicines make you feel better?
Do you always need to take medicine when you are feeling ill?
What else could you do?

Pictures of
medicines.
Pictures of
people that
give
medicines

Assessment
of
SLES1.13

Student
worksheet.

Watch YouTube clips on medicine safety***

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OK6_OdWxTA
Students complete worksheet circling who CAN give them medicine

10

Lesson Focus: Storing Medicines

Discuss and brainstorm where medicines should be kept at
At home

Creative arts

Assessment

At school
On holidays
At Nana & Grandads
Etc.

Students complete a creative arts activity on safe storage of medicine.

activity
scaffold

of
SLES1.13