Understanding Health & Prevention: Series Breakdown

Want to know all about the new series in Learning for Life - ‘Understanding Health & Prevention’? Keep reading!

While we have already explored ‘Being Healthy’ and ‘How To… Be Healthy’, the next step is learning about broader areas of health. Building on the previous series, we revisit concepts and ideas around ways to keep ourselves healthy. Exploring illness, hygiene, sun safety, and more.

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Produced with 21 Together and using Widgit symbols and Makaton signing, this series explores the idea that our choices in life have consequences for our health, and examines different factors in this. Learning for Life is all about bringing strategies into learners’ every day lives. Further into the series we discuss harmful substances, the differences between illegal drugs and legal medicines. Discussing risky situations, to empower learners to make balanced decisions around harmful substances, including drugs, alcohol, and tobacco.

As always, we encourage you to differentiate the teaching to the needs and learning level of your young person/people. This is encouraged throughout the Learning for Life project, but we also stress this in our resources on harmful substances. Please consider the level of discussion beforehand, to ensure you cater effectively to your learner; the project is made to be age-appropriate right up to young adulthood, so make sure you personalise it for your learner.

'Understanding Health & Prevention' consists of the following videos:

1. What is Health and Prevention?

2. Physical Illness

3. Sun Safety

4. The Importance of Sleep

5. Keeping Clean and Healthy

6. Harmful Substances

7. Keeping Safe & Emergencies

We recommend following the order of Learning for Life series, starting with ‘Growing Up and Keeping Safe’, then ‘Emotions’, ‘Caring Friendships’, ‘Being Healthy’, ‘The Changing Adolescent Body’, ‘Families’, and finally ‘Understanding Health & Prevention’. The content in each series builds upon the knowledge gained in previous ones, but you can also make choices based on your learners’ needs and existing knowledge. You know your learner best, so enthuse you tailor the learning to best suit their needs.

Is your learner too young to start this series? Why not try Teach Me Too, a series that covers a broader spectrum of the curriculum for young learners.

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