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Feedback from: “Should you be able to refuse a school uniform if it conflicts with your beliefs?”
The majority (that means most) of you across the country voted in favour of Chikayzea being allowed to keep his dreadlocks. Here’s what you had to say…
“Religious clothing lets people stay strong in their belief which should be allowed.”
– Bolton School
“If we didn’t wear the same clothes (same uniform) some children would be treated differently.”
– Turing House School
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Remember! You have the chance for your comments to be shared around the country. Make sure to add a comment when you vote or ask your teacher to us with your feedback.
We passed on your results and opinions to the school that Chikayzea goes to, and will be raising awareness about why this issue is so important to you.

3. Is it ok to have a burger for breakfast?
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Is it ok to have a burger for breakfast?
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4. Starter Pair Activity (2-4 mins)
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Starter
Pair Activity (2-4 mins)
Go and find a teacher or adult in school.* Ask them:
1) What was the last healthy thing you ate?
2) What was the last unhealthy thing you ate?
3) Draw or write down their answers.
4) Come back to class, share their answers and discuss which foods you think are healthy or unhealthy.
I had pizza for breakfast and ten chocolate chip cookies for lunch!
*If this activity is not possible, find someone in the room that you haven’t spoken to today and ask them instead!
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5. Our learning journey for this week!
Why are we talking about this?
How do we know what
food to eat?
Can too much fruit and veg be harmful?
Can adverts change what we eat?
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Swapping cereal for burgers
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6. Why are we talking about this?
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Food is a huge part of keeping healthy. If you don’t eat a balanced diet it can cause health problems.
Stories about food are always in the news, whether they are about obesity or healthy eating. 3
Anyone can post on social media, speak on the TV or the internet about what we should and shouldn't eat, which makes being healthy very confusing…
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Class Question (2 mins) Look at these headlines. Do you think everything written about food is true?
Obesity: being so extremely overweight that it effects your health in a bad way.
This VoteTopic might be sensitive for some pupils, as it covers mental health. Go to the last slide if you need more information.

7. Our learning journey for this week!
Why are we talking about this?
How do we know what
food to eat?
Can too much fruit and veg be harmful?
Can adverts change what we eat?
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Swapping cereal for burgers!
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8. How do we know what food to eat?
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How do we know what food to eat?
Pair Activity (3-6 mins)
Healthy or unhealthy?
Look at the drinks and discuss which ones are healthy or not.
Order them from most healthy (5) to least healthy (1).
3. Click to reveal the order.
It is really hard to tell what is healthy and unhealthy. Some foods or drinks have healthy things about them, like vitamins or calcium, but they also have less healthy things, like sugar. 5
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Healthy: If something is healthy it means it is good for you and nutritious (it gives your body something it needs, like a vitamin!)
Most of you probably had this order for your drinks, but people disagree all the time on what is healthy and what it not. The best advice is to try not to drink or eat too much of one thing, like fizzy drinks. Most foods are ok to eat in sensible amounts.

9. Group Discussion (2-4 mins)
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How do we know what food to eat?
There are many things and people who make a difference to what you eat and drink…
Doctors and nutritionists
S&C: Can you think of anyone or anything else?
Group Discussion (2-4 mins)
Using the pictures to help you, can you come up with one way that these people or things make a difference to what you eat?
School/Teachers
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Social media
Celebrities
Nutritionist: are experts on food. They study what people should eat to keep healthy.
Television

10. Our learning journey for this week!
Why are we talking about this?
How do we know what
food to eat?
Can too much fruit and veg be harmful?
Can adverts change what we eat?
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Swapping cereal for burgers!
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11. Group Activity (4-8 mins)
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Can too many fruits and vegetables be harmful?
Group Activity (4-8 mins)
Read each situation.
Rate each from 1-5 on a worry scale.
Think of one way you could help this person.
Share your ideas with the class.
5 - very worrying
1 - not worrying
3 - slightly worrying
1. Your friend gets very upset if they don’t eat at least ten fruit and vegetables a day.
2. Your friend talks all the time about going on a diet which they saw on facebook.
3. Your friend always tries to skip PE and only has crisps and chocolate in their lunchbox.
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Should you tell someone? Who? How can you help?
What advice could you give your friend about where to get information on healthy eating?
How could you encourage your friend to be healthy?

12. Class activity (3-6 mins)
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Can too many fruits and vegetables be harmful?
Class activity (3-6 mins)
Click on the image to watch a video about what happens when extreme eating becomes dangerous.
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Any obsession with food is usually not good for you, whether it is fruits or burgers. If you are worried about food in any way, you should speak to a teacher or an adult you can trust.
Obsession: When you have an obsession it means you can’t stop thinking about something and that thing takes up all your time.

13. Our learning journey for this week!
Why are we learning about this?
How do we know what
food to eat?
Can too much fruit and veg be harmful?
Can adverts change what we eat?
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Swapping cereal for burgers!
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14. Can adverts change what we eat?
Class Activity (4-8 mins)
Click the picture to watch a 30 second cereal advert. Write down the answers to these questions and click to reveal answers:
1. What is the catchphrase when they show the cereal box?
2. What two things do they say make Cheerios healthy?
3. Are the children in the advert happy or sad?
Catchphrase: A group of words (sometimes sung!) that are designed to be catchy so you remember the food.
“It’s good to say yes”
Adverts have a catch phrase to try to help you remember the product they are selling.
2) Vitamin D and Calcium.
Adverts tell you the positive things about the food, like the vitamins they contain, but never the negatives!
3) The children are smiling and eating the cereal.
Adverts want to make you feel happy so you will buy their product!
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15. Our learning journey for this week!
Why are we learning about this?
How do we know what
food to eat?
Can too much fruit and veg be harmful?
Can adverts change what we eat?
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Swapping cereal for burgers!
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16. Swapping cereal for burgers
Advertisers are always trying to make you want to buy things, especially food! Even if that food isn't very good for you…
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Next time you see an advert on the TV or online, try to think about how the advertiser is trying to make you want to buy something!
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17. Group Activity (5-10 mins)
Swapping cereal for burgers
Group Activity (5-10 mins)
Imagine you are an advertiser. You want children to start eating burgers for breakfast instead of cereal.
1. Get into groups of 3 or 4.
2. Create a 30 second advert that includes; a catchphrase, a positive about burgers, a negative about cereal.
3. Use all the hints to help you.
Catchphrase sentence starters:
Burgers are…
It’s going to taste…
How can you live without…
Don’t miss out on…
Positives about burgers:
Contain vegetables
Sugar free
Meat is good source of iron and protein
Very filling
Negatives about cereal:
High sugar level
Not filling
No protein
No vegetables
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18. Aspire to know more… Could you become a Nutritionist?
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Could you become a Nutritionist?
You guessed it right! Nutritionists are experts on food. They study what people can eat to keep healthy, help people avoid disease and recover from illness.
Class Activity (2 mins)
Click the image to watch a video about what a nutritionist does in a day!
What does being a Nutritionist mean?
How would you get there?
You need GCSE science subjects and then As and Bs at A level, including at least one science subject. After this, you will need to go to university to study a scientific subject.
Will you like it?
If you like helping people who are sick or want to be healthier, then you will like this job. You will get to spend every day with people helping them to be healthy.
What would you do?
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Examine people just like a doctor or nurse.
Come up with food plans for people.
Support people to make changes in their diets and lifestyles.
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19. Is it ok to have a burger for breakfast? No
Burgers are really unhealthy and you should choose a healthier option for breakfast.
Eating a burger once in a while is fine, but if you start every day with a burger you will probably not be very healthy.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and you should start healthily so you are not tempted to eat junk food all day.
People eat too much meat already so eating meat for breakfast too seems over the top.
If you start eating burgers all the time you may develop an addiction or a worrying problem with food.
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20. Is it ok to have a burger for breakfast? Yes
A burger for breakfast won’t hurt you as long as you don’t do it every single day!
Obsessing over being too healthy can lead to really serious illnesses so if you enjoy eating a burger once in a while, that’s fine!
A burger can be part of a balanced and healthy diet as long as you make sure it doesn’t become a regular habit.
There is a lot of confusing information on social media and the TV about what is good and bad for you, so you should follow advice from the people who know about health and they say that a burger is fine as long as it’s not eaten every day.
Some other breakfasts are not as healthy as they seem.
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21. Vote Now on… www.votesforschools.com
If you need further advice or information on the sensitive issues covered in this week’s VoteTopic, you can look at these websites:
On healthy eating
On eating disorders
On Orthorexia Nervosa
Websites:
NHS’s advice on what healthy eating is:
NHS’s page on eating disorders and what to do if you think someone might be suffering.
The National Center for Eating Disorders page on Orthorexia
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