Lesson 1: Wonderful me! My happiness

Children begin to take responsibility for their own happiness by identifying what’s important to them and setting achievable goals.

Learning objective

  • To identify what is important to me and to take responsibility for my own happiness

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:

  • H1. how to make informed decisions about health
  • H2. about the elements of a balanced, healthy lifestyle
  • H3. about choices that support a healthy lifestyle, and recognise what might influence these
  • H4. how to recognise that habits can have both positive and negative effects on a healthy lifestyle
  • H18. about everyday things that affect feelings and the importance of expressing feelings

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Download classroom resources

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Might need to be asked more prompting questions throughout and be given plenty of examples.

Pupils working at greater depth: Could write two possible actions to help achieve each happiness goal.

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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