Healthy living magazine

This idea will build upon k/u of Healthy Living by applying learning in a real life context through working in groups to design a new health magazine for all S1 pupils in the school.

Outcomes of learning

• Subject knowledge gained and enhanced - healthy eating, nutrition, food, dietary disease, exercise, lifestyle etc
• Enterprising skills improved by developing creativity, confidence, positive attitude; increasing motivation to learning; taking responsibility and making decisions; consideration of others through group work and discussion; raising achievement and fostering ambition
• Developed employability skills: Communication, planning, organisation, time management, researching, co-operating, contributing, sourcing, negotiating, analysing, reporting, presenting, marketing and providing a free service
• Confidence of working independently from teacher-led lessons demonstrated by pupils taking control of the exercise – using computers to take the lead, working with each other, deciding on the content of the exercise, presenting their final item as they wish. Pupils only need to use the classroom teacher as a support guide
• Pupils take responsibility for their learning through making decisions about the content of their magazine, the layout and the presentation
• Pupils have developed 4 capacities of CfE

Relevance to curriculum

• Supports 5-14 Technological Studies, Health/Environmental Studies
• Relevance of how curriculum topic on Healthy Living is relevant to work and life and how this subject knowledge is put into practice in a real situation