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Learning objective

  • To explore what makes me and others feel excited and calm.

Success criteria

  • I can talk about things that make me
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National curriculum

RSE and Health

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Optional: remind the children of the PSHE agreement they created in the Introductory lesson: Setting rules for RSE & PSHE lessons and recap the agreed rules. If needed, upload an image of the agreement to the Presentation: PSHE agreement.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing support:

  • Could use the click function on the Presentation: How do emotions and feelings look? to see examples of what a feeling or emotion may look like on our faces or bodies.
  • Could use the Activity: Feeling calm and excited pictures to select and stick images that represent calming and enjoyable activities, supporting them to talk about their ideas.
  • Could refer to slides 1 and 2 of the Presentation: Feeling good to identify one calming and one enjoyable activity before completing their sheet.
  • Could rehearse the sentence starter ‘When I…, it makes me feel…’ before explaining their picture to a partner.

Pupils working at greater depth:

  • Should explain why rest and enjoyable activities are important by linking them to feeling calm, excited or energised.
  • Should suggest and explain a strategy they could use when not feeling calm or excited, giving a clear reason why it would help.
  • Could write a brief label underneath each picture on the Activity: Feeling calm and excited: extension to describe how it makes them feel.
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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding can:

  • Identify what makes them
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Vocabulary definitions

  • calm

    A feeling when everything seems peaceful.

  • cheerful

    A nice feeling shown by smiling, laughing or being kind.

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