2.0 Health Practices
1.1 2.4 Sanitation/Toileting
By the end of this sub-strand, the learner should be able to:
- Identify toilet facilities in the school.
- Talk about the importance of toilet facilities for personal hygiene.
- Express the urge for toileting.
- Use toilet facilities properly for personal hygiene.
- Appreciate the need to use clean toilet for personal hygiene.
- Why should we use toilet facilities?
- Which are the toilet facilities in school?
- What do you do when you need to go to the toilet?
- How do you use toilet facilities?
- Why do you keep the toilet clean?
- Learners are guided to talk about the importance of sanitary facilities in the school.
- Learners are guided to identify the toilet facilities in the school compound.
- Learners are guided in talking about how to express the urge for toileting.
- Learners practice seeking permission to go to toilets.
- Learners observe a role play on the use of sanitary facilities.
- Learners use games to practice the use of toileting facilities.
- Learners are guided to talk about the need to use clean toilet/latrine for personal hygiene.
- Learners observe a video on appropriate use of toilet facilities.
Approved textbooks, realia, counters, flashcards, charts & digital devices.
1.2 2.5 Foods/Feeding
By the end of this sub-strand, the learner should be able to:
- Talk about different food eaten at home.
- Talk about the importance of eating clean food.
- Tell the importance of eating food.
- Talk about the dangers of sharing food from someone else's mouth.
- Feed self using clean hands or feeding items appropriately.
- Observe proper feeding habits.
- Maintain a clean feeding area.
- Appreciate different foods eaten at home.
- How do we eat?
- Why do we eat clean food?
- Why do we eat food?
- How should we behave when eating?
- Why should we use clean feeding items when feeding ourselves?
- Why should we clean our feeding area?
- What are the dangers of eating from someone's mouth?
- Learners are guided in naming foods eaten at home.
- Learners are guided in telling of cleaning foods before eating.
- Organise learners in groups to talk about foods they eat at home and school.
- Learners are guided to read pictures of foods found in the local environment.
- Learners are guided to colour drawings of foods.
- Learners sing songs and recite poems on importance of eating food.
- Learners are guided to discuss the dangers of eating food from someone's mouth.
- Individually, learners practice feeding self.
- Learners are guided to talk about proper feeding habits.
- Learners practice cleaning the feeding area.
- Learners tell stories, sing songs and recite poems on foods eaten at home and school.
- Learners practice the appropriate cultural feeding habits using clean feeding items.
- Learners watch videos on different feeding habits and cleaning foods (fruits and vegetables).
Approved textbooks, realia, counters, flashcards, charts & digital devices.
