Help children celebrate the cultural significance of food with this inspiring lesson plan for mini food explorers.

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 includes a lesson and activities designed for EYFS and Year 1 pupils, and a lesson and activities designed for children in Year 2 and Year 3.

We also sell a Bilal Cooks Daal teaching pack and book bundle which includes a copy of the book.

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.)

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