Lesson 1: Wonderful me: Taking responsibility for my feelings

Investigate the different ways of responding to situations with a consideration of the possible outcomes by exploring the 'Choose your destiny' story approach.

Learning objective

  • To take responsibility for my own feelings and actions
  • To extend my vocabulary relating to feelings

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:

  • H18. about everyday things that affect feelings and the importance of expressing feelings
  • H19. a varied vocabulary to use when talking about feelings; about how to express feelings in different ways

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Might want to use the Activity: Choose your destiny template to fill in, rather than create their story from scratch.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should be able to describe both scenarios in detail and relate to known situations.

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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