Y5/6 Lesson 5 (Cycle A): Taking responsibility for my feelings

Understanding that we are responsible for our own feelings and actions.

Learning objective

  • To take responsibility for their own feelings and actions and to use vocabulary to describe these

Statutory guidance

Pupils should know:

  • That there is a normal range of emotions (e.g. happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, nervousness) and scale of emotions that all humans experience in relation to different experiences and situations.
  • How to judge whether what they are feeling and how they are behaving is appropriate and proportionate

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Can use the Activity: Choose your destiny template and Activity: List of dilemmas.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should be able to think of a familiar situation which might lead to choices and then describe both possible outcomes in detail to make their story interesting and exciting. They may also add in further choices in their story so the reader has several choices to make.

Wrapping up

Assessing Pupils’ Understanding and Progress

Vocabulary

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