Join Emma Symonds, our RSE & PSHE specialist, for a webinar on enhancing pupil wellbeing during Children’s Mental Health Week. This session offers:
- Strategies to foster a supportive classroom environment.
- Activities to boost self-expression and emotional awareness.
- Tips for integrating mindfulness and relaxation techniques.
- Resources that align with the theme ‘Know Yourself, Grow Yourself,’ focusing on resilience and connections.
Use this mood tracker to support children in tracking their feelings and emotions.
Designed to support wellbeing and emotional regulation, this resource guides children through the simple steps in Balloon Breathing, to support them in feeling calm and focused.
Encourage children to explore their feelings and boost their wellbeing with this journal page. Designed to help children identify and share their emotions, reflect on their day and set positive intentions.
This unit vocabulary display includes keywords from the mixed-age unit Religion and worldviews, Y1/2 (A), Why should we care for the world? and additional unit-specific words that may be helpful in a display.
Key vocabulary is clearly labelled on the display, highlighting essential words that the pupils are expected to retain and reuse in future units. Understanding these words enhances comprehension of the subject and supports understanding of prominent organised worldviews.
See the full Religion and worldviews: Progression of key vocabulary.
This Music video supports teachers in developing effective strategies for teaching beat and rhythm at key stage one. It explores what beat and rhythm look like in a classroom setting, common challenges pupils may face, and how these foundational skills progress as pupils move into the upper key stages. Through clear modelling, movement activities, and simple instrument use, the video helps teachers build pupil confidence in recognising, maintaining, and responding to a steady beat before formally introducing rhythm.
This Music video introduces key techniques for teaching pitch at key stage one. It explores how to develop children’s understanding of high and low sounds through vocal warm-ups, sound pictures, and pitched instruments. The video also models how to teach singing with a limited pitch range, gradually expanding as children gain confidence.
This Music video explores how to teach the concept of tempo in key stage one through movement, rhythm, and familiar rhymes. Focusing on the theme of the snail and mouse, it helps pupils differentiate between fast and slow speeds by encouraging physical responses, voice work, and simple instrument play. The video also models how to scaffold tempo understanding through beat-keeping, miming, and retrieval activities.
This video is part of Kapow Primary’s Teacher Skills videos for Music, Key Stage 1. It equips teachers with practical strategies to support children as they explore tempo, preparing them for more advanced musical concepts in future key stages.
