Year 5 PSHE: Spring 1 worksheet

“Body and brain links” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 5 PSHE unit “PSHE: Spring 1”, for children aged 9 to 10, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 13 to 18 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Body and brain links

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 5 · PSHE · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can explain how exercise, food and sleep work together to help the brain.

A Look back3 min

1.
Join each feeling to the weather that fits it best.
Calm and happyA bit worriedVery angry
StormySunnyCloudy
2.
The STOP, ?, CHOOSE routine has a calm step in the middle. Which word goes in the blank? Circle it.
BreatheHideShout
3.
In a calm chat to fix a problem, which step goes in the blank? Circle one.
ListenShout backWalk away

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ola walks to school, eats porridge, and goes to bed at a regular time. How do these three parts link?

A quiet tree-lined pavement on a sunny morning, with an empty school gate in the distance

Watch me

Sleep helps the brain store what you learned today.

Porridge releases glucose slowly, so the brain has steady energy.

A brisk walk helps you fall asleep more easily that night.

Now you

1.
Ola eats porridge before school, so she has steady energy for her brisk walk. Circle the link this shows.
Exercise to sleepSleep to foodFood to exercise

C Your turn8 min

Read each row. Circle, sort or choose, then move to the next row.

A kitchen table set for breakfast with a bowl, a glass of water and a fizzy drink can

1.
Which breakfast gives the brain steady energy for morning lessons? Circle one.
Porridge with bananaSugary cereal and a fizzy drinkNothing before schoolSweets on the way in
2.
Sort these. Which activities count as moderate or vigorous? Write each card in a column.
Brisk walk to the shopsCycling fast to schoolWatching a film on the sofaSwimming lengths at the pool
Counts as moderate or vigorous Does not count
3.
Ali went to bed very late and found it hard to remember his spellings. Circle the link this shows.
Sleep and memorySweets and shoe sizeWalking and the weather
4.
Leo has a fizzy drink with lunch every day. Which small change would help his focus most? Circle one.
Swap it for water or milkHave two fizzy drinks insteadSkip lunch altogetherAdd a sweet treat as well

Say it out loud: Each row changes one thing: the food, the activity, the sleep, then the drink. Which body and brain link does each row show?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A school desk under a lamp at night, with a closed book and a pencil case, empty room

Ruby says: “If I revise until midnight, my brain will remember more tomorrow.”

1.
Why is Ruby wrong? Write one sentence.

E Think deeper4 min

1.
Look at the made-up chart. Give two reasons why the walking day might score higher. Write them down.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Body and brain links · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. Calm and happy → Sunny; A bit worried → Cloudy; Very angry → Stormy your child may match by how loud the word sounds. Ask which feeling is calm and which is heavy, then match the weather to that.

2. Breathe Shout skips the calm step. Ask your child what the middle step is for before the brain chooses what to do next.

3. Listen Walking away stops the chat before the problem is fixed. Ask your child what they do while the other person speaks, before it is their turn.

B

1. Food to exercise If your child picks another link, ask which two things the sentence names: the porridge and the walk.

C

1. Porridge with banana A sugary drink gives a quick spike then a crash. Ask your child whether that breakfast will still give energy at break time.

2. Does not count: Watching a film on the sofa · Counts as moderate or vigorous: Brisk walk to the shops, Cycling fast to school, Swimming lengths at the pool

3. Sleep and memory Ali's memory dip links to sleep. Ask your child what the brain might have missed last night.

4. Swap it for water or milk Two fizzy drinks means more sugar, not more focus. Ask your child why water is a better choice for the brain.

D

1. Look for: Sleep helps the brain store or consolidate memories, so staying up late to revise reduces what is remembered the next day. Ruby thinks more hours of revision means more memory. Ask your child what the brain does while we sleep.

E

1. Look for: Two reasons linking exercise to focus, such as better sleep, more blood flow to the brain, or a better mood.

Words to use

Say“Which part of the body and brain link did you think about first, and why?”

Instead of“Just go to bed earlier, that is all you need.”

After the sheet

Put a bowl, a pair of shoes and a book on the table to stand for breakfast, the walk and bedtime. Ask your child to put them in order through the day, then say how each one links to tomorrow's focus.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Hooked on the Brain(with a plan)
Vapes: Evidence or Myth?(with a plan)
Drugs, Choices and Risk(with a plan)
Where am I on the scale?(with a plan)
The Worry Loop(with a plan)

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