How Do I Feel?

Help your Year 1 children to explore and be prepared for the many and varied emotions they will experience throughout their lives with these five ready-to-teach 'How Do I Feel?' PSHE KS1 lessons.

To begin with, children will look at and discuss some common emotions, and increase their vocabulary for describing these feelings. They will then go on to explore how we can express the emotions we feel on our faces, in our bodies, and through our actions. Children will begin to understand that not everyone feels the same about things, and that this is OK. They will learn how to ask for help with difficult feelings, and finally, explore the emotions that different changes can bring. Please be aware that, for copyright purposes, we are unable to provide the texts listed in lesson 4 and lesson 5 of this scheme of work.

Each of the lessons in this How Do I Feel? Year 1 PSHE pack includes an easy-to-follow plan, a set of engaging slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

A Knowledge Organiser is available to support the learning in this scheme. It is included in the Complete Series download or can be purchased individually.

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Different Feelings

In this first Feelings KS1 lesson, your class will explore some common emotions, including feeling happy, sad, angry, excited, worried, surprised, scared and calm.

Together, children are encouraged to talk about when they might feel these emotions, and whether they know any other words for these feelings. They then show what they know about feelings in their independent activities.

This Feelings KS1 lesson pack includes everything you need - a detailed plan, a set of slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

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Expressing Feelings

With this Expressing Feelings lesson, your Year 1 children will explore how we can express the emotions we feel on our faces, in our bodies, and through our actions.

In their independent activities, children will identify a variety of different emotions from pictures and descriptions based on these clues. In the FSD? activity, children are challenged to act out different emotions for the class to identify.

This Expressing Emotions KS1 lesson pack comes with an easy-to-follow plan, an engaging slide show for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

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Not Everyone Feels the Same

In this KS1 lesson, children explore how we don't always feel the same emotions as everyone else. They will look at a range of scenarios where people may have differing feelings.

In their independent activities, children will identify how a range of situations would make them feel, and then are challenged to find someone who feels the same as them, and someone who feels differently.

Everything you need for a successful PSHE lesson is included in this pack - an easy-to-follow plan, a set of slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

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Asking for Help with Feelings

At the beginning of this lesson, children explore the idea that people can't always tell how others are feeling just by how they look on the 'outside'. Sometimes they might need to ask for help with their feelings.

Using the story of Ruby's Worry by Tom Percival, children find out why it is always a good idea to talk about a worry. In their independent activities, children use given scenarios to talk through who they would ask for help with a worry, and what they would say.

This KS1 lesson pack includes everything you need - a detailed plan, a set of slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

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Changes

In this final KS1 lesson, children discuss what change is, and how different changes, whether big or small, can make us feel.

After looking at a range of changes and identifying the emotions they might feel, children listen to the story of Badger's Parting Gifts by Susan Varley, which explores a big change - loss. In their independent activities, children further explore how a range of different changes would make them feel.

This Changes KS1 lesson pack comes with an easy-to-follow plan, a set of engaging slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

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This Year 1 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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