See children using this sheet in ‘India’s Sunday funday’ ( Part 2, Chapter 4), on the Keeping healthy, staying safe compilation DVD plus.

Ideas for using the ‘Keeping healthy record’

These sheets encourage lots of discussion and are great for role play (see below). Let children take home blank sheets for family members to complete – quite illuminating!

Explain that some nurses, as well as doctors, ‘Healthy schools’ visitors, like Claire in the film, and healthworkers, all help people to keep healthy by advising them about eating healthily and keeping active.

Slip a sheet inside a plastic pocket, attach it to a clipboard and use in role play, e.g. in your ‘doctor’s surgery’. Encourage one child to be a doctor or nurse with the clipboard, who ‘talks through’ the ‘questions’ with another child, adult or a teddy or doll. Perhaps the teddy or doll has been brought to the ‘surgery’ by a ‘mum’ or ‘dad’ for a ‘check up’, to see if they are ‘fit and healthy’.

Groups of children could use the sheets to find out about favourite fruits, vegetables and kinds of exercise, and make bar charts.

Individual children may like to complete a record sheet a few times each year, dating each one, then look back at them to see whether their tastes in fruits and vegetables, or in exercise preferences, have changed.