‘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.

‘Squiggles’ 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. Get a piece of paper and some colouring pens ready, to complete one of my favourite mindful activities. Don’t forget to bring your senses and your breath too!

‘Mindful Photography’ 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 talk about how photography is a mindful task and encourage students to focus on a them for taking photographs.

‘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.

‘Just listen to the music’ 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 use music as an anchor for Mindfulness. Choose a pleasant song, find a quiet spot and just listen to the music.

‘Counting breaths’ 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. Learning to count your breaths will help you to focus on your breathing and also make you more aware of when you are having thoughts; this, in turn, helps you to calm your mind.

‘Mind-body connection’ 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 helps you to notice that the thoughts in your mind change your body sensations and emotional state. It’s a powerful connection!

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

‘Counting thoughts’ 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. We can’t avoid having thoughts, but we can choose how we listen to them. This takes practice, and we first have to notice our thoughts. In this video, I help you do this by learning to count them.

‘7/11 breathing’ 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 is a simple breathing exercise for you: breathe in for a count of 7 and out for a count of 11. Watch the video to find out more and to help you practice.

This 5-page pdf resource, for primary students, uses a real story as a springboard into lessons about ‘judgement’. You will find a paragraph about the theme, key questions & discussion outcomes and three activities which include a short Mindful moment script. The story is online, and the activities require only essential classroom resources.

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. Often when you do Mindfulness you are asked to focus only on your breath. It sounds simple but it’s actually quite a challenging thing to do. I’m going to show you a way that might make it a bit easier.

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. We take many routine journeys each day and week. When something becomes routine it means that we can do it without thinking so much about it. That also means we stop noticing things around us because they don’t seem new anymore. In this video I want to encourage you to take a well known journey and see if you can spot something new about it.

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 use your sense of hearing to work out common sounds. You will need to be mindful so that you can focus on only one thing: listening.

‘Hand breathing’ 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 always have your breath with you, so it’s a great tool to help you be mindful. Tracing around your hand can help you to take five even and full breaths. In this video, I show you how.

‘Object study’ 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 is similar to my ‘Find something new’ video, but here you take an everyday object and discover more about it.

This 3-page pdf resource, for primary students, uses a real story as a springboard into lessons about ‘friendship’. It is aimed at older primary ages but is adaptable for younger students. You will find a paragraph about the theme; story-based and general questions; 3 activities and a set of 3 mindful tasks, related to friendship bracelets. The story is online and the activities, apart from a ball/s of string, require only the essential classroom resources.

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.

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.