Health & Emotional Wellbeing

This activity explores some of the barriers that might stop someone changing their eating habits and adopting a healthier diet.

This activity raises awareness about the link between body image and self-esteem and the need for sensitivity when encouraging someone to manage their weight and improve their diet. Please note, this activity does not promote or support notions of perfect body sizes or shapes.

This activity follows on from the previous one and considers the potential impact on emotional health and well-being of being over or under a healthy weight.

This activity follows on from the previous one and considers the potential impact on emotional health and well-being of being over or under a healthy weight.

This activity asks young people to debate proposals aimed at reducing the number of overweight and obese people in the UK by placing a higher tax rate on high calorie food and drink. This includes salty snacks, sweets and chocolates, as well as fast food like pizza or burgers.

This activity enables young people to identify and discuss the social and individual factors that could result in a person being under or over a recommended healthy weight for their age, size and gender.

This warm up activity is designed to help recognise that people are different in many ways, including physically. Some of these differences can be changed by conscious action and effort, e.g. exercise and healthy eating, and some will change through puberty and maturation, but some cannot be changed and to support emotional well-being should be accepted and difference celebrated.

This activity encourages young people to discuss different coping strategies for managing change, both positive and not so positive, before identifying sources of support.

This is a quiz for young people to assess how they tend to cope with change and recognise that people can feel differently towards it.

This timeline activity enables young people to explore life changes during childhood and adolescence and recognise the need to build coping skills.