Help children celebrate the cultural significance of food with this inspiring teaching pack bundle.

Bilal Cooks Daal by Aisha Saeed is a charming picture book that celebrates diversity and encourages exploration of the cultural significance of food through cross-cultural sharing. Use this lesson plan and accompanying activities to facilitate discussions around friendship, culture, community, food exploration, patience and feelings / emotions.

Created by teachers, for teachers, and peer-reviewed by our team of multi-disciplinary health experts, as with all Body Happy lesson plans and learning activities, this session is mapped to Ofsted and National Curriculum requirements, but is easily adaptable for any curriculum. This teaching pack has been designed for children in EYFS to Year 3 (there is one plan for EFYS to Year 1, and one for Year 2 and Year 3).

We also sell a Bilal Cooks Daal single lesson and teaching pack, if you wish to purchase this separately.

BUNDLE INCLUDES:

• 1x copy of a hard back copy of Bilal Cooks Daal (RRP £11)

• 2x detailed lesson plans (one for EFYS - Yr 1; one for Year 2 & Year 3)

• multiple additional teaching activities for each age group

• mapped to National Curriculum and Ofsted frameworks, but easily adaptable for any curriculum.

National Curriculum Links:

• EYFS - Personal, Social and Emotional Development - Building Relationships (Show sensitivity to their own and to others’ needs and feelings and form positive relationships with adults and other children.

• KS1 PSHE – Respectful Relationships (Understanding the importance of respecting others, even when they are very different from them, for example, physically, in character, personality or backgrounds), or make different choices or have different preferences or beliefs.

• PSHE – Mental Wellbeing (How to recognise and talk about their emotions, including having a varied vocabulary of words to use when talking about their own and others’ feelings).

• Citizenship (Take part in discussions with one other person and the whole class. / Identify and respect the similarities and differences between people. / Understand that they belong to various groups and communities.)

If you wish to purchase the book as an individual item head here.