Lesson 3: Meaning and purpose: My superpowers

By thinking about real and fictional superheroes, children identify and celebrate their strengths as well as consider ways that they can help other people.

Learning objective

  • To identify my own strengths and begin to see how they can affect others

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:

  • H20. strategies to respond to feelings, including intense or conflicting feelings; how to manage and respond to feelings appropriately and proportionately in different situations

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Download classroom resources

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Might need to work together as part of a mixed ability pair.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should give examples on the Good listener guide (from the previous lesson) of things the listener might say or do.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

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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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