JHS3 Career Technology · Term 1, Week 1

Personal Hygiene and Food Hygiene

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B9.1.1.1.1 - Practice good grooming

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

  1. Explain what good grooming means and relate it to personal hygiene in their own words.
  2. Identify at least five good grooming practices and demonstrate them correctly (proper sitting, walking, talking, eating manners, and wearing neat clothes).
  3. Discuss the importance of good grooming for one’s personality and interpersonal relationships.
  4. Demonstrate proper sitting, walking, and talking postures during classroom activities.
  5. Create short motivational messages on good grooming and display them in and around the classroom.

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Curriculum details

Strand
Health and Safety (Strand 1)
Sub-strand
Personal Hygiene and Food Hygiene (1.1)
Content standard
B9.1.1.1 - Demonstrate skills that relate to personal and food hygiene to self
Indicator
B9.1.1.1.1 - Practice good grooming
Suggested placement
Term 1, Week 1 (Week 1 of the year)

Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.

Curriculum reference
Career Technology, Common Core Programme (JHS1-JHS3), 2023, p. 77

Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

1. Explain what is meant by good grooming and relate it to personal hygiene.
E.g.: Good grooming means practising good hygiene techniques and general composure.
2. Discuss good grooming practices, in groups.
E.g., proper sitting, proper walking, proper talking, proper eating manners and wearing neat clothes.
3. Discuss the importance of good grooming, in groups.
E.g., Enhances one's personality and interpersonal relationships
4. Demonstrate good grooming practices.
E.g., proper sitting, proper walking, proper talking, proper eating manners and wearing neat clothes.
5. Write short messages on good grooming and tag them in and around the classroom, in groups.