Lesson 1: Wonderful me! Experiencing different feelings

There’s more than one way to relax! Pupils learn two different techniques for helping them to relax; progressive muscle relaxation and laughter, both useful tools to be used in different situations.

Learning objective

  • To describe a range of feelings and develop simple strategies for managing them

National curriculum

All schools should make provision for personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE), drawing on good practice.

The PSHE Association Programme of Study recommends pupils are taught:

  • H12. how to recognise and name different feelings
  • H14. how to recognise what others might be feeling
  • H16. about ways of sharing feelings; a range of words to describe feelings
  • H18. different things they can do to manage big feelings, to help calm themselves down and/or change their mood when they don’t feel good

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Download classroom resources

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Might need example scenarios to think about and time to act these out with prompting questions to help understand their different emotions and what they feel like.

Pupils working at greater depth: Could use their own experiences to help empathise with the girl from the clip and use this understanding to describe how she might be feeling.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

Created by:
Elaine Bousfield,  
Wellbeing specialist
Elaine worked for many years as a therapist with young people. She is the founder and chair of XenZone and its children and young people’s counselling service, kooth.com. Kooth delivers an online counselling and therapy service. It is also an online community…
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