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Lesson overviewBUILD · Week 2

A Balanced Plate

How can a team plan a varied meal and stay within a budget?

  • Plan a pretend café meal using ingredient cards.
  • Think about groups, cost and team jobs.
  • Speak, point, draw or ask an adult to write.

Learning intention

Use food groups to plan a simple meal, recognising variety across a day or week rather than requiring every group on every plate.

Success criteria

  • I can identify groups in a mixed dish.
  • I can plan a meal from a set of ingredient cards.
  • I can explain a budget or teamwork choice.
Reveal the model
What a good answer can look likeStarchy foods.

Lundy Loop · your voice matters

SPACE

Choose a calm place and a supported way to take part.

VOICE

Say, point, draw, write or pass. A fictional example is welcome.

AUDIENCE

The adult listens and checks that your meaning is understood.

INFLUENCE

At the exit, agree one useful next step or change to your support.

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I Do · learn and modelBUILD · Week 2

Look across a day or week

  • Food groups help us plan a range of ingredients.
  • A single plate does not have to include every group.
  • Different meals can contribute different ingredients.
Reveal the model
What a good answer can look likeNo. Consider the pattern across a day or week.
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I Do · learn and modelBUILD · Week 2

Watch me unpack a meal

  • Pretend rice bowl: rice, beans and tomatoes.
  • Rice: starchy. Beans: protein. Tomatoes: fruit and vegetables.
  • One bowl can include several groups.
Reveal the model
What a good answer can look likeBeans.
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You Do · practiseBUILD · Week 2

Three dishes, several groups

  • Porridge: oats and milk.
  • Jacket potato: potato and beans.
  • Sandwich: bread, cheese and cucumber.
Reveal the model
What a good answer can look likePorridge includes milk; the sandwich includes cheese. Both are valid answers.
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We Do · think togetherBUILD · Week 2

Plan the café special

  • Budget: 120p for one pretend meal.
  • Choose rice or a roll; beans; tomatoes or carrots.
  • A paper cup of tap water adds 0p to this classroom budget.
Reveal the model
What a good answer can look likeRice costs 10p less.
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You Do · practiseBUILD · Week 2

Choose, add and check

  • Rice 40p or roll 50p. Beans 40p.
  • Tomatoes 30p or carrots 30p.
  • Draw or write the meal. Add prices and check 120p or less.
Reveal the model
What a good answer can look likeYes: 40p + 40p + 30p = 110p, with 10p left.
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I Do · learn and modelBUILD · Week 2

Give everyone a useful job

  • Planner: read the chosen ingredients and groups.
  • Checker: add the cost and check the brief.
  • Swap roles. Ask before moving someone else’s cards.
Reveal the model
What a good answer can look like“Let us add the prices again” or “Can we use the counters?”
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ReviewBUILD · Week 2

One plan, different possibilities

  • Sam’s example day has oats and milk; rice, beans and tomatoes; a potato, lentil and carrot soup with a little rapeseed oil.
  • Point to the five groups across the example.
  • No one meal has to contain them all.
Reveal the model
What a good answer can look likeThe rapeseed oil in the soup.
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Exit checkBUILD · Week 2

Show one decision

  • Point to your chosen meal.
  • Explain a food-group, cost or team-job decision.
  • Collect cards and reset the table.
Reveal the model
What a good answer can look likeNo. Rice is starchy and beans are protein foods; variety is considered across a day or week.

Lundy Loop · your voice matters

SPACE

Choose a calm place and a supported way to take part.

VOICE

Say, point, draw, write or pass. A fictional example is welcome.

AUDIENCE

The adult listens and checks that your meaning is understood.

INFLUENCE

At the exit, agree one useful next step or change to your support.

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Use the buttons or left and right arrow keys. Home returns to the first slide; End goes to the last. Printing includes every pupil slide and leaves model answers out.