Healthy Habits and Sharing the Love

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infoWhy this? Growth mindset, balanced nutrition, sufficient sleep, and perseverance give us practical ways to support learning, health, and recovery from setbacks. Applying assertive communication and safe responses to peer pressure and cyberbullying helps us protect our boundaries and contribute to healthier relationships.

scheduleWhy now? At the end of Year 7, this unit turns earlier learning about resilience, sleep, relationships, and online safety into sustainable everyday habits. It consolidates the year’s learning so that we can make increasingly independent, safe, and considered choices over the summer and into Year 8.

A fixed mindset assumes abilities are largely unchangeable, whereas a growth mindset holds that abilities can improve through practice, effective strategies, feedback, and support.
Limiting beliefs are negative assumptions about yourself or your chances of success that can stop you trying, persisting, or learning from difficulty.
Setbacks and failure can be useful feedback because they show what did not work and can lead to improvement when a person reflects, adapts, and tries again.
Resilience is the capacity to recover from difficulties, and perseverance is continuing to work towards a goal despite challenge, delay, or frustration.
The World Health Organization advises a healthy diet to include a variety of foods, especially fruit, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and whole grains.
A balanced diet provides enough energy and nutrients while avoiding excessive sugar, salt, and unhealthy fats.
Sleep is essential for physical health, mood, concentration, memory, and learning, so poor sleep can reduce wellbeing and school performance.
Good sleep hygiene includes a regular bedtime, a calming wind-down routine, a dark and quiet sleep environment, and avoiding stimulating activities before bed.
Using screens close to bedtime can make sleep harder because light and mental stimulation can delay sleepiness.
Healthy habits are repeated behaviours that support wellbeing, such as regular exercise, nutritious eating, and sufficient sleep, while unhealthy habits are repeated behaviours that harm wellbeing.
A balanced lifestyle involves moderation across sleep, exercise, diet, rest, stress, and responsibilities rather than neglecting one area to focus on another.
Unhealthy or toxic relationships often involve repeated disrespect, manipulation, control, dishonesty, intimidation, or boundary violations, while healthy relationships are built on trust, respect, support, and clear communication.
Assertive communication means expressing feelings, needs, and boundaries clearly and calmly without becoming passive or aggressive.
Peer pressure is the influence that other people or a group can have on a person's decisions, attitudes, or behaviour.
Direct peer pressure involves explicit requests, demands, threats, or persuasion, whereas indirect peer pressure arises from group expectations, observing others, or fearing exclusion.
Coercion, exclusion, and guilt-tripping are red-flag peer-pressure behaviours because they attempt to control another person's choices.
Peer pressure can affect a person's decisions, emotions, friendships, values, and safety.
Protective responses to peer pressure include saying no assertively, leaving an unsafe situation, suggesting an alternative, and seeking support from a trusted person.
Cyberbullying is bullying carried out through digital devices or online platforms.
Common forms of cyberbullying include abusive messages, threats, spreading rumours, impersonation, deliberate exclusion, and sharing private or embarrassing content without consent.
Cyberbullying can cause fear, embarrassment, anxiety, isolation, and reduced self-esteem, and it can make online communities feel unsafe.
Victims of cyberbullying can protect themselves by saving evidence, blocking the person responsible, reporting the behaviour, and seeking support from a trusted adult.
Bystanders can respond to cyberbullying by refusing to like or share harmful content, reporting the behaviour, and offering support to the victim.

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Identify fixed-mindset or limiting-belief thoughts in a setback and rewrite them as growth-mindset statements that focus on learning, effort, strategy, or support.
Reflect on a setback by describing what happened, naming the belief it triggered, and setting one clear, realistic next step.
Evaluate a one-day diet against the WHO principles by checking variety, fruit and vegetable intake, and levels of sugar, fat, and salt, then justify realistic improvements.
Design one balanced day of eating that better matches healthy-eating guidance across meals, snacks, and drinks.
Create a school-night bedtime routine that includes helpful habits, avoids barriers such as late screen use, and explains how each step supports better sleep.
Define cyberbullying, recognise its forms, explain its impact, and choose appropriate responses for victims and bystanders.

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