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Lesson 6: Relaxation: Progressive muscle relaxation

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.

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Learning objective

To know how to relax in different ways

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 advises that pupils are taught:

H1. about what keeping healthy means; different ways to keep healthy
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

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Could be positioned closer to the teacher so that they can watch as the teacher models what they need to do. Might need more time to think of examples of when they have a laughed a lot to remember and link to how they felt at the time.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should articulate what relaxation means, demonstrating an understanding that it is not always about being calm and quiet.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

In this unit

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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