This unit explores the importance of healthy eating, the impact of a poor diet on a child’s health and development, how to support healthy eating in your setting and how to manage specific dietary needs and preferences. There are 6 learning outcomes for this unit.
- Understand the impact of food and nutrition on children’s health and development.
- Understand how food choices impact on health and development during pre-pregnancy, pregnancy and breastfeeding.
- Explain the impact on health and development of food choices during: pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, breastfeeding.
- Understand the nutritional needs of children
- Explain the nutritional value of the main food groups.
- Use current government guidance to identify the nutritional needs of babies until they are fully weaned.
- Explain how to plan a weaning programme.
- . Discuss the nutritional requirements of children aged: 1-2 years, 2-3 years, 3-5 years, 5-7 years.
- Explain strategies to encourage healthy eating.
- Understand the impact of poor diet on children’s health and development.
- Explain the impacts of poor diet on children’s health and development in the: short term, long term.
- Understand individuals’ dietary requirements and preferences.
- 5.1. Identify reasons for: special dietary requirements, keeping and sharing, coherent records with regard to special dietary requirements.
- Explain the role of the Early Years practitioner in meeting children’s individual dietary requirements and preferences
- Describe benefits of working in partnership with parents/carers in relation to special dietary requirements.
- Be able to support healthy eating in own setting.
- Plan an activity to support healthy eating in own setting.
- Implement an activity to support healthy eating in own setting.
- Reflect on own role when supporting healthy eating in own setting.
- Make recommendations for healthy eating in own setting