Lesson 3: Coping strategies

Exploring coping strategies to help regulate emotions and identifying how characters within a story may be feeling.

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Learning objectives

  • To explore different coping strategies to help regulate our emotions. 
  • To identify our own feelings.
  • To consider the reasons behind our emotions.

EYFS outcomes

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

  • Express their feelings and consider the feelings of others.
  • Identify and moderate their own feelings socially and emotionally.
  • ELG: Self-regulation: Show an understanding of their own feelings and those of others, and begin to regulate their behaviour accordingly.

Characteristics of effective learning

> Playing and exploring

> Active learning

> Creating and thinking critically

Before the lesson

Activity

Teacher notes

Key vocabulary

Prompts for learning

Observations

Next steps

To explore different adjectives associated with each feeling.

Note any specific next steps for individual pupils.

Created by:
Sophie Pickles,  
Computing specialist
Sophie is an expert Early Years consultant. She has spent many years both teaching in Reception and leading, in her role of Head of Early Years and senior manager at an outstanding-rated, child-led setting. Sophie now works with many national educational…
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