Free webinar – Monday 9 March 2026, 7:00-8:00pm. Practical cookery from KS1–KS5: discover new Leiths courses, pricing, and how to bring exciting skills and delicious recipe-led learning into your school.
Free webinar – Monday 9 March 2026, 7:00-8:00pm. Practical cookery from KS1–KS5: discover new Leiths courses, pricing, and how to bring exciting skills and delicious recipe-led learning into your school.
Sing or chant a familiar song/rhyme with the class that lasts between 20 and 40 seconds. Then tell them that this is about how long they should take to wash and rinse their hands.
We wash our hands to make sure they are clean and not dirty. Can we always see if they are dirty – or might there be invisible germs?
Ask the children when we should wash our hands? If they don’t mention it, be sure to include that it is necessary to do so before we touch food to be hygienic (germ-free). We touch food when we eat it and cook with it.
Share NHS or other child-friendly video to show how children should wash their hands. Chant and point to palms, fingers, thumbs, knuckles and nails to reinforce understanding of how thorough we need to be.
Children to practise the movements and any words for washing their hands as per chosen video for a class performance at the end of the lesson.
Complete complementary pupil sheet if you wish.
Ask questions to reinforce key concepts and vocabulary. For example:
Finish with skills vocabulary/actions if you have time.
Art – Draw round own hand or hands and decorate
English – Rehearse sentences about handwashing using subordination e.g. I wash
my hands when/if they are dirty
History – Was personal hygiene the same in the past as it is now?
Maths – Compare and sequence intervals of time
Music – Understand musical notations for time
Science – Describe the importance of hygiene for humans
Wash hands before going outside for a picnic.
Give your school completely free access to the full Leiths Primary Curriculum through the Leiths Education Portal, delivering structured, hands-on cookery education across the primary years.
The full course includes:
A 32-session scheme of work across KS1 and KS2
Chef-led cook-along videos for every recipe
Detailed lesson plans, teaching notes and PowerPoints
Printable recipes, pupil worksheets and scalable shopping lists
Clear progression in cookery skills, food knowledge and safety
Cross-curricular links exploring seasonality, provenance and food choice
Everything needed to deliver high-quality cookery education, all in one place.
