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When planning and providing food and drink how you meet the needs of the children to include dietary and nutritional needs, follow goverment guidelines on healthy eating, involve children in planning and preparation of snacks, encourage healthy choices and how you document any information regardiong food allergies, dietary requirements, food preferences
When planning and providing food and drink how you meet the needs of the children to include dietary and nutritional needs
Some children have allergies, some have religious restrictions to their diet eg halal, some children are vegetarian/vegan, children have foods which they dislike
Follow goverment guidelines on healthy eating
Check these out on the government website, have a copy of these handy or on display to refer to. Write these into your settings policy
Involve children in planning and preparation of snacks
Ask children for their preferences, ask them to wash and chop up the snacks, give them out, help to clear up
how you document any information regardiong food allergies, dietary requirements, food preferences
This information should be on new starter forms filled in by parents/carers and should be kept in the child's file. A notice containing this information can also be put up on display for quick reference purposes
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when promoting childrens healthy physical development, how you provide opportunities for children to learn about how their bodies work and their health needs? -
how you discuss these needs with the children, according to their age and stage of development
Talk to children about how they have changed since they were babies: get them to bring in a picture of themselves as babies and them now and make a display so they can see the changes for themselves, talk about what they need in order to grow and be healthy eg exercise, eating healthy foods and drinking healthy drinks, getting enough sleep, cleaning their teeth, staying clean, looking after their hair. Bring in lots of different fruits or fruit juices into the setting and have a tasting session. Make a bar graph to show which is their favourite/least favourite. Give the children an outline of a plate or lunchbox and get them to draw a healthy meal. Ask the children what they think would happen if they just ate chips, burgers, sweets and crisps and just drank fizzy drinks. Talk to the children about all the different exercise they could do eg play football, tennis, swimming, walking, find out which they like doing. Talk about what the children can do to look after themselves eg brush their hair, clean their teeth, wash their face, eat breakfast - have a fun session singing and miming "this is the way we brush our hair, brush our hair, brush our hair, this is the way we wash our hair, early in the morning".
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how you support children to make healthy choices and provide information regarding goverment guidelines and best practice?
How you support children to make healthy choices
By providing healthy snacks and having healthy drinks available to them. By providing cooking activities for the children. By providing healthy meals for them. By putting up displays showing healthy foods and drinks. By explaining the consequences of unhealthy choices. By encouraging children to exercise. By making children aware of ways in which they can look after themselves eg getting enough sleep. By providing books etc which provide positive images of healthy people. By being a good role model.
Provide information regarding goverment guidelines and best practice
By sending home leaflets about the menu you are providing, by having leaflets available to parents or on noticeboards about non-smoking, healthy eating, exercise, teeth cleaning, not watching too much television etc
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how you ensure that children with chronic illnesses or physical disabilities can participate in discussions and activities
By making sure that these children have the opportunity to take part and that their contribution is valued
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what is ment by challenging activities and the link with developmental progress?
A challenging activity is something that a child may find hard to do at the moment, but if they practise and keep trying they are likely to suceed at it. This is according to a child's age, needs and abilities. Developmental progress is made when a child is able to do something now that a week ago they may have found challenging eg dressing themselves or going to the toilet on their own. It means that one challenging activity has been achieved and that the child can move on to the next challenge
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the importance of good oral hygiene and how you promote this
the importance of good oral hygiene Good oral hygiene is important because it prevents rotten teeth, bad breath, teeth extractions, it gets the child into good habits, it promotes independance.
how you promote this having a speaker come into the setting to talk about and demonstrate good oral hygiene (usually they have a crocodile puppet with big teeth), and the consequeces of not looking after their teeth properly. Provide free toothbrushes. Have a healthy teeth display. Provide leaflets giving information. Provide the phone number of a local dentist on the notice board. Read story books about going to the dentist. Talk about your/their experiences of going to the dentist. Have a dentist visit the setting.
Activities and opportunities to practice physical skills?
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