34% of children leave primary school overweight
Use these resources to help children learn about the effects of eating too much sugar and start to build healthier habits.
A range of flexible nutrition resources across different subject areas – designed for use throughout the school year to encourage pupils to build healthier habits for life.
Use these resources to help children learn about the effects of eating too much sugar and start to build healthier habits.
Develop pupils' literacy skills – including phonics, vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, and creative and persuasive writing – while exploring Sugar Smart World. These resources will help pupils learn how much sugar is in everyday food and drink, and find out about tasty, healthier swaps.
Use our printable templates and fact sheets to help Key Stage 1 and 2 pupils draft a poster, comic strip or letter to persuade the people of Sugar Smart World to try some healthier swaps.
The Sugar Cube Invaders are taking over Sugar Smart World! Use these interactive PowerPoints to help deliver an engaging maths lesson exploring how much sugar is in everyday food and drink, and learning about healthier swaps, all while practising maths skills such as addition, subtraction, division and multiplication.
These differentiated worksheets encourage pupils in Years 1 to 6 to practise their maths skills while learning about healthier swaps in Sugar Smart World.
This simple, engaging PowerPoint lesson will get early years pupils thinking about how much sugar is in their food and learning about some healthier swaps they'll love.
In these fun and flexible PowerPoints, Key Stage 1 and 2 pupils can set up a simple science experiment to observe how sugar can affect teeth, before helping Tilly the Tooth make better choices about staying healthy.
Being distributed to schools in mid-January, these exciting and informative activity packs see children journey to the four corners of Sugar Smart World to help fight off the Sugar Cube Invaders.
Create a Sugar Smart World display board for your school! It's a great way to feature pupils' persuasive posters, comics and letters, and show parents the healthier swaps their children are learning about.
Looking for easy, healthy recipes to make with pupils and send home to parents? Download our printable Change4Life recipe ideas for tasty options from around the world that will please pupils of all ages.
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