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Lesson 6: Relaxation: Mindfulness

Understand how different relaxation strategies can be used in differing situations by completing a mindfulness activity that involved creating a booklet with useful tips and advice.

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Learning objective

To use mindfulness to manage emotions

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:

H4. how to recognise that habits can have both positive and negative effects on a healthy lifestyle
H16. about strategies and behaviours that support mental health — including how good quality sleep, physical exercise/time outdoors, being involved in community groups, doing things for others, clubs, and activities, hobbies and spending time with family and friends can support mental health and wellbeing

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Have the Presentation: Relaxation slides visible to remind them of strategies previously looked at.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should describe when they would use different relaxation strategies, clearly articulating why.

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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