‘Kim’s Game’ is one of several videos I have created to support students at home: as they take on the challenges of distance learning, they will need help to keep anxiety levels down. My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Share this video with your students, to encourage them to maintain their wellbeing during this uncertain time. Use it as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task. This task is about training your brain muscle to be mindfully focussed, using a well known game called Kim’s game. In it you will need to work out the missing object. Remember to be mindful of how it feels in your mind and body to focus.

Glitter Jars is one of several videos I have created to support students at home: as they take on the challenges of distance learning, they will need help to keep anxiety levels down. My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Share this video with your students, to encourage them to maintain their wellbeing during this uncertain time. Use them as mindful moments, brain breaks or transition tasks. In this video, I discuss how to make glitter jars and how they can be used to take be mindful. I have also included a mindful glitter jar moment at the end of the video.

‘Heartbeat’ is one of several videos I have created to support students at home: as they take on the challenges of distance learning, they will need help to keep anxiety levels down. My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Share this video with your students, to encourage them to maintain their wellbeing during this uncertain time. Use it as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task. In this video I encourage you to do some exercise to get your heartbeat racing and then use the heartbeat as a focus for Mindfulness. Enjoy!

Cups’ is one of many videos I have created to support students wellbeing. Mindfulness can be accessed in ways other to formal practices. My videos are simple and effective tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Use them as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task.

‘Back Drawing’ is one of several videos I have created to support students at home: as they take on the challenges of distance learning, they will need help to keep anxiety levels down. My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Share this video with your students, to encourage them to maintain their wellbeing during this uncertain time. Use it as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task. You will need a partner for this simple Mindfulness task. Concentrate to work out the letter your partner is drawing on your back!

‘A hand of joy’ is one of several videos I have created to support students at home: as they take on the challenges of distance learning, they will need help to keep anxiety levels down. My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Share this video with your students, to encourage them to maintain their wellbeing during this uncertain time. Use it as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task. In this video I ask you to draw around your hand and then mindfully fill it with things that bring you joy.

‘Find something new’ is one of several videos I have created to support students at home: as they take on the challenges of distance learning, they will need help to keep anxiety levels down. My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Share this video with your students, to encourage them to maintain their wellbeing during this uncertain time. Use it as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task. In this video, I invite you to look carefully around a room in your home and find something you haven’t noticed before.

‘Everyday task’ is one of several videos I have created to support students at home: as they take on the challenges of distance learning, they will need help to keep anxiety levels down. My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Share this video with your students, to encourage them to maintain their wellbeing during this uncertain time. Use it as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task. Here I explain how you can use simple everyday tasks to help you practice Mindfulness.

My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Use them as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task. In this video you will learn to eat mindfully. You will learn to appreciate your food, be thankful to the person who made it and use your senses to take notice of what you are eating.

This pdf resource, for primary students, uses a real story as a springboard into lessons about ‘worry’. Wellbeing activities and a Mindful moment are included to help you deliver a practical lesson. Please choose from the ideas I have described or use them all. Additionally, include other stories that highlight the same theme, to enrich your teaching. You will not find a set of photocopiable sheets within this resource; instead, use the activities I have designed with regular classroom resources.

This 1-page pdf gives real advice about teaching formal Mindfulness practices to primary classes.

This 1-page pdf is a simple list of A to Z options for gratitude. Use it to help students think about things they can be grateful for, create their own lists or use to complete gratitude tasks.

This 4-page pdf, is a collection of personal ideas, standard practices and YouTube clips, to support mindful-minutes. This collection is designed with staff meetings in mind but can be used in other settings too. Sometimes a minute is all we have, and sometimes that is all that it takes, to ground ourselves back into the present.

This A3 pdf document is a collection of quotes and personal understandings about the nature and reality of thoughts. Use as a poster or teaching aid to give students insights and a better understanding of their inner world.

This 3-page A3 poster pdf , for primary teachers, includes a sample poster and supporting appendix. The poster is the first in a series that illustrates behaviours that often lead to break downs in relationships. It can be used for display purposes, as well as a teaching aid, to assist students in finding resolutions. The appendix is designed to support the poster by providing a worksheet style activity. This resource is a sample that is best used in conjunction with the other seven posters, in the full resource.

This 3-page PDF file promotes a simple activity to support students to think about who they are, We all have a range of personality traits that we employ at different times. By considering what those traits are, we can have more power over the choices we make.

‘Feely Bag’ is one of many videos I have created to support students at home: as they take on the challenges of distance learning, they will need help to keep anxiety levels down. My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Share this video with your students, to encourage them to maintain their wellbeing during this uncertain time. Use it as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task.

‘Mindful Movement’ is one of several videos I have created to support students at home: as they take on the challenges of distance learning, they will need help to keep anxiety levels down. My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Share this video with your students, to encourage them to maintain their wellbeing during this uncertain time. Use it as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task. Walking is something most of us take for granted and we rarely think about everything that goes into this everyday movement. By slowing down, we can notice what is going on when we walk and how our body feels.

‘Ice-cube Challenge’ is one of several videos I have created to support students at home: as they take on the challenges of distance learning, they will need help to keep anxiety levels down. My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Share this video with your students, to encourage them to maintain their wellbeing during this uncertain time. Use it as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task.

‘3 Things’ is one of many videos I have created to support students at home: as they take on the challenges of distance learning, they will need help to keep anxiety levels down. My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Share this video with your students, to encourage them to maintain their wellbeing during this uncertain time. Use it as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task.