Reception: Wellbeing
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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Listen attentively and respond to what they hear with relevant questions, comments and actions.
- Make comments about what they have heard and ask questions to clarify their understanding.
- Work and play cooperatively.
- Take turns with others.
- Show sensitivity to their own and others’ needs.
- Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.
- Share their creations, explaining the process they have used.
- Take notice of their surroundings by describing what they can see, hear and feel.
- Explore the natural world.
Suggested prior learning
This is the first unit in the Wellbeing scheme.Lessons
Discover: Trying something new
Take notice: My surroundings
Connect: Similarities and differences
Give: Kind words
Move: Being animals
Related content
Unit resources

Wellbeing: Long-term plan
An overview of our wellbeing curriculum.

Wellbeing: Equipment list
Lists the equipment needed for our wellbeing lessons.

Wellbeing: Personal development, SMSC and British values mapping
This document shows where following our Wellbeing curriculum supports pupils' personal development, including SMSC and British values.

Wellbeing: Progression of knowledge and skills
Showing how pupils' knowledge and skills develop when following the Kapow Primary Wellbeing curriculum.

Wellbeing: Statutory guidance coverage
This document shows which Kapow Primary Wellbeing lessons give coverage of the statutory RSE and Health Education published by the…
Cross-curricular opportunities
Characteristics of effective learning
- Creating and thinking critically.
- Playing and exploring.
- Active learning.
See Development matters (non-statutory curriculum guidance).
British values
- Individual liberty.
- Mutual respect.
- Tolerance.
See Promoting fundamental British values as part of SMSC in schools (non-statutory advice).