Year 1: Wellbeing
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Year 1: Wellbeing
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Explain ways to turn mistakes into opportunities.
- Use spoken language to express how they feel.
- Recognise that sharing is an important part of developing friendships.
- Take notice of different sounds.
- Express their feelings through body movement.
- Name ways of communicating different feelings and emotions.
- Discuss how music makes them feel.
Suggested prior learning
Reception: Wellbeing
Get startedLessons
Discover: Making mistakes
- To discover that it is good to make mistakes.
Take notice: Sound
- To take notice of feelings and emotions when listening to music.
Connect: Understanding others
- To connect with others by showing empathy.
Give: Sharing
- To give through sharing.
Move: Gardening
- To move to improve green space.
Related content
Unit resources
Wellbeing Knowledge Organiser: Year 1
Aimed at pupils, a visual summary of the unit's key knowledge, techniques and vocabulary.
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
PSHE
- PSHE Association’s Programme of Study for PSHE Education.
English
Spoken language
Pupils should be taught to:
- Listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers.
- Ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge.
- Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates.
See National curriculum - English - Key stages 1 and 2.
Computing
Pupils should be taught to:
- Use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content.
See National curriculum - Computing - Key stages 1 and 2.
Art and design
Pupils should be taught:
- To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.
- To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.
See National curriculum - Art - Key stages 1 and 2.
British values
- Individual liberty
- Mutual respect
- Tolerance
See Promoting fundamental British values as part of SMSC in schools (non-statutory advice).