Self-Esteem Lesson Pack

An engaging lesson designed to develop children’s understanding of self esteem, themselves, their mental health and other’s emotional well-being.

A list of suggested classroom ground rules are provided to support the children with discussing mental health in a respectful way.

This extended lesson covers:

• what decreases self esteem,
• signs of high and low self esteem,
• links to a growth mindset,
• emotional well-being,
• healthy coping strategies for low self esteem,
• activities for raising self esteem
• role play about why we should try to raise self esteem,

All the activities inspire high quality dialogue, reflection and progress in class. Designed to engage the children with talking about mental health and provide them with strategies to enhance their self esteem and therefore safeguard their mental health.

A range of mental health support options are offered if children feel they need to follow up/delve deeper with anything covered in class.

An assessment task is also provided where children complete sentences assessing their:

• Understanding
• Beliefs
• Strategies
• Confidence

The lesson ends with a lighthearted post it note activity to refresh the children after covering deep and meaningful activities.

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