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Evaluate own setting's provision for physical activity and nutrition in relation to the requirements of statutory frameworks and national guidelines

Watch this video clip ‘Taste for life – healthy eating in schools’ and consider how Marsham Street Community Nursery promotes healthy eating by engaging children.

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Tutorial Video
Reading Materials

'Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage Setting the standards for learning, development and care for children from birth to five’ from the Department for Education
'Physical activity guidelines for children (under 5 years)’ from the NHS
'Eat better, start better: A practical guide’ from Action for Children
'Activities’ from Better Health Healthier Families website
'Well-being for children in the EYFS’ from Cache

Presentation
Good Practice Example
Interactive Quiz
Evidence Opportunities
Extended Learning

The Department for Education has produced ‘Promoting fundamental British values as part of SMSC in schools: Departmental advice for maintained schools’.
This article from PACEY looks at ‘Fundamental British Values in the Early Years’.
This section of the British Nutrition Foundation covers ‘Life stages’. This section looks at nutrition in pregnancy, in childhood and young adults, in men and women, and in later life.
The Department for Health and Social Care, together with Public Health England, have produced this document ‘Early years high impact area 4: Healthy weight, healthy nutrition. Health visitors: leading o the Healthy Child Programme’.
This first article from the NHS is about ‘Healthy-weight children: advice for parents’.
This second NHS article covers ‘Physical activity guidelines for children and young people’.

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