Managing Emotions

#TheCompleteSeries5lessons

Children will begin by exploring what personal identity is, before moving on to look at what emotional dysregulation can feel like. As the lessons progress, children will build up a bank of different strategies that they can use to self-regulate. They will also learn to recognise when and how to ask for help with overwhelming feelings. The final lesson explores loss, and how grief can affect us.

Everything you need is included in this Managing Emotions KS2 PSHE 5-lesson pack - detailed plans, engaging and informative PDF slideshows, as well as a range of printable resources for your class's independent activities.

This scheme is part of a Topic Bundle - perfect if you want to teach Feelings and Emotions as a cross-curricular topic!

#Lesson1PersonalIdentity

In this first lesson, children will explore what personal identity is, and how it is closely linked to self-esteem. They will learn that the more we know and understand ourselves, the better we can value ourselves.

As a class, children will explore the poem Russian Doll, and how this illustrates that we all have different parts of us. In their independent activities, children will explore their own personal identities by creating a stacking (Russian) doll to represent themselves.

This Personal Identity KS2 lesson includes everything you need for a successful lesson - a detailed plan, a set of engaging PDF slides, and printable resources for children's independent activities.

#Lesson2CopingStrategies

In this Managing Emotions KS2 lesson, children will begin by exploring how physical and mental health are linked. They will then look at and compare emotionally regulated and emotionally dysregulated states.

As a class, children will begin to think about strategies they could use to cope with being dysregulated. In their independent activities, children explore given scenarios and identify and discuss healthy and unhealthy coping strategies.

An easy-to-follow plan, an informative set of PDF slides and printable resources are all included in this Managing Emotions KS2 lesson pack.

#Lesson3SelfregulationStrategies

In this lesson, children will first recap on what mental health is, and discuss ideas for how we can look after and support our mental health.

They will then be introduced to the intensity scale of emotions, the top end of which reflects emotions that can be challenging. First as a class and then independently, children will explore a range of different self-regulation strategies for coping with these feelings themselves. They will identify scenarios that would evoke a particular emotion within them, and then think about which regulation strategy would work best for them in each situation. In the alternative activity, children make a mini-book comprised of different strategies that they could use to cope with different intense emotions.

This Mental Health KS2 pack includes everything you need for a successful lesson - a detailed plan, a set of engaging PDF slides, and printable resources for children's independent activities.

#Lesson4SeekingSupport

Children will be introduced to the phrase, ‘flip your lid’. As a class, they explore how we react to an overwhelming emotion, and how we can seek help from others when our self-regulating strategies aren’t working.

In their independent activities, children will generate ideas for situations which would make them ‘flip their lid’, and then identify who they would seek help from, and how. The alternative activity offers children the opportunity to do this via role-play.

This KS2 PSHE lesson pack contains an easy-to-follow plan, an informative set of PDF slides and printable resources.

#Lesson5ExploringFeelingsofLoss

In this final lesson, children will begin to talk about loss. They will look at the difference between temporary and permanent loss, and explore how different losses can make someone feel.

They will then look at the feeling of grief in response to the loss of a loved one, and discuss some of the common stages of grief. In their independent activities, children will explore the different feelings, thoughts and physical responses that can accompany grief. In the FSD? activity, children read and discuss Michael Rosen’s Sad Book.

An easy-to-follow plan, an informative set of PDF slides and printable resources are all included in this Managing Emotions KS2 lesson pack.

#KnowledgeOrganiserManagingEmotions

This Year 5 PSHE Knowledge Organiser has been created to complement our PSHE Self and Emotional Wellbeing strand. It is designed to support your children’s understanding of key vocabulary linked to this scheme of work. A thinking question and a big idea have been included to encourage your children to think deeply about this topic.

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Curriculum Objectives covered

• that there is a normal range of emotions (e.g. happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, nervousness) and scale of emotions that all humans experience in relation to different experiences and situations.
• how to recognise and talk about their emotions, including having a varied vocabulary of words to use when talking about their own and others’ feelings.
• how to judge whether what they are feeling and how they are behaving is appropriate and proportionate.
• where and how to seek support (including recognising the triggers for seeking support), including whom in school they should speak to if they are worried about their own or someone else’s mental wellbeing or ability to control their emotions (including issues arising online).