Lesson 6: Relaxation: Visualisation

Within a calming, visualisation activity, children are talked through a relaxing environment before creating their own version.

Learning objective

  • To understand what relaxation feels like and that relaxation techniques can be used anywhere

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:

  • H16. about strategies and behaviours that support mental health — including how good quality sleep, physical exercise/time outdoors, being involved in community groups, doing things for others, clubs, and activities, hobbies and spending time with family and friends can support mental health and wellbeing

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Might need to have more examples of calm places and support in describing the environment.

Pupils working at greater depth: Could think about how they would talk someone through this place as a visualisation activity and use appropriate expression and intonation to calm talk someone through their relaxing environment.

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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