This lesson plan explores how daily gratitude can improve social and emotional wellbeing. It is suitable for Year3-6 and sits well within the PSHE curriculum. What Colour Is Your Dragon? is a trauma-informed approach to mental and emotional wellbeing which emphasises creativity, movement, and neuroscience. It is aimed at children and young people of all ages, teachers and parents. Emotional intelligence (EQ), or the ability to be smart about emotions, is an essential skill that children need for resilience, especially in times of challenge and uncertainty. What Colour Is you Dragon provides tools to develop EQ, using a Dragon language and three coloured dragon characters. The practice of gratitude is one of the ways of feeding our ‘green dragon’ which helps keep our mental and emotional health in balance.

Bow-Wowza is a world of talking dogs and wellbeing hacks that equip children to be mentally resilient, full of PAWsitivity, comfortable with their emotions, and ready to unleash their best lives. Our Key Stage 1 and 2 Wellbeing In Schools Package offers 8 evidence-based modules including funny videos, audio meditations, creative activities, lesson plans and class discussions. Each set of resources is designed to be accessible and flexible, so you can adapt your lesson depending on how much time you have available. This KS2 module is all about MANAGING EMOTIONS. All activities are designed to introduce students to the concept that our emotions are not permanent, and all emotions are OK. There is an introductory video that is used as a springboard for discussion on the topic. Pupils are encouraged to always talk to someone if they are struggling with a strong emotion. All our activities can also be done outside the lesson and can be repeated to strengthen the benefits. Managing Emotions - Teacher’s Notes (including link to introductory film) Managing Emotions - Meditation 3 mins Managing Emotions - Meditation 6 mins Managing Emotions - Dog Bowl Resource Managing Emotions - Feelings Resource Managing Emotions - Windows Resource Managing Emotions - Word Search Resource

Bow-Wowza is a world of talking dogs and wellbeing hacks that equip children to be mentally resilient, full of PAWsitivity, comfortable with their emotions, and ready to unleash their best lives. Our Key Stage 1 and 2 Wellbeing In Schools Package offers 8 evidence-based modules including funny videos, audio meditations, creative activities, lesson plans and class discussions. Each set of resources is designed to be accessible and flexible, so you can adapt your lesson depending on how much time you have available. This KS1 module is all about MANAGING EMOTIONS. All activities are designed to introduce students to the concept that our emotions are not permanent, and all emotions are OK. There is an introductory video that is used as a springboard for discussion on the topic. Pupils are encouraged to always talk to someone if they are struggling with a strong emotion. All our activities can also be done outside the lesson and can be repeated to strengthen the benefits. This lesson includes: Managing Emotions - Teacher’s Notes (including link to introductory film) Managing Emotions - Meditation 3 minutes Managing Emotions - Worry Monster Resource Managing Emotions - Monster Food Resource (to feed the Worry Monster!) Managing Emotions - Feelings Resource Managing Emotions - Windows Resource

Partnership for Children produce PSHE programmes for schools that teach children skills for life: how to cope with everyday difficulties, how to communicate with and get on with other people, and build self-awareness and emotional resilience. Our children’s activities are designed to help children process feelings, communicate effectively, cope with their anxieties and difficulties and deal with change and loss. Use this activity to help your child to think about what is important in a friend and improve their friendships.

Partnership for Children produce PSHE programmes for schools that teach children skills for life: how to cope with everyday difficulties, how to communicate with and get on with other people, and build self-awareness and emotional resilience. Our children’s activities are designed to help children process feelings, communicate effectively, cope with their anxieties and difficulties and deal with change and loss. When someone we love dies – a family member, friend or pet – we can have all sorts of difficult feelings. This activity helps children to find coping strategies and offers tips to support you to talk to children about death and bereavement.

Welcome to our downloadable wellbeing guidebook filled with tips, tools and activities to support children’s mental health. There are so many fun videos and links your students can keep themselves busy with and support their mental health. And with a section dedicated to parents, we’d love for you to share it with them too. My name is Nader Dehdashti, one of the founders of preventive wellbeing charity Happy Space and we are thrilled to have collaborated with Beyond to bring every child across the UK this digital toolkit.

This lesson is brought to you by Happy Space UK - the mental wellbeing charity that protects the minds of tomorrow. Structure of the lesson: Activity 1: Exploring what gratitude means (10 minutes) Activity 2: The hedonic treadmill (10 mins) Activity 3: What are you grateful for? (10 mins) Activity 4: How can we practice gratitude in the future? (5 minutes) Why should students learn about gratitude? Gratitude can lower blood pressure, improve immune function and facilitate sleep. Gratitude reduces lifetime risk for depression, anxiety and substance abuse disorders and is a key resiliency factor in the prevention of suicide. Gratitude helps to block toxic emotions, like envy, resentment, regret and depression. Gratitude can help improve motivation, productivity and achievement The goals of this lesson plans are: To explore and build upon students’ current understanding of gratitude. To experience actively practicing gratitude. To understand how gratitude can help create a ‘glass half full’ outlook. To encourage students to think about how they can continue to practice gratitude, thereby making it a habit

My Emotions Activity Book is the perfect place for children to explore and express their feelings. It uses beautiful illustrations of animals, fun activities and gentle questions to help children reflect on how they feel and understand the emotions they experience. The activity book is designed to be universal and used within a school lesson, as part of a group of lessons or one-to-one between parent, caregiver, or child support worker. Laura hopes that the activity book is used as a thoughtful, calming, and comfortable way to generate conversations with children about their feelings and wellbeing. The pages within the book can be used over a period of time in a variety of different ways. For example, having an assortment of stationery materials on hand to encourage children and (grown-ups) creativity.

Partnership For Children produce PSHE programmes for schools that teach children skills for life: how to cope with everyday difficulties, how to communicate with and get on with other people, and build self-awareness and emotional resilience. Our children’s activities are designed to help children process feelings, communicate effectively, cope with their anxieties and difficulties and deal with change and loss. Use this activity to improve your child’s ability to identify and recognise feelings

Looking After You: The Joy Diamond The reality is that there will be down days – we’re only human. And that’s OK – sadness, moments of anxiety and depression are inevitable parts of life. Everyone experiences them at some point, regardless of their sexuality. We can’t remove them from our lives, but we can give ourselves the best chances of facing them and managing them, and we can do that by setting ourselves up in the best way possible. A “life hack” that I like is to create a tick list for myself – it’s simple, I promise! All you have to do is try to tick off a bunch of things each day from what I call “the joy diamond”. To help you build up your chances of having a great day, try and tick off one of the things from each box. You can use this example that I created for myself, or try making your own. Content from Queer Up: An Uplifting Guide to LGBTQ+ Love, Life and Mental Health

Here you will find an entire toolkit which has information for both adults and children and takes you on a journey through the different parts wellbeing and looking after your mental health. This is a collaboration between the mental health charity Happy Space and Sophie Says. The toolkit is split into 4 sections: Mind - this includes activities around positive and negative thoughts, activities around gratitude and a parent section for tips as well. Body - this includes activities and resources on mindfulness, sleep, routines and exercise. Food - this includes information on nutrition, types of foods and recipes. Art - this includes activities to help children switch off, different ways for children to find their happy space and games including the random acts of kindness game.

My Emotions Activity Book is the perfect place for children to explore and express their feelings. It uses beautiful illustrations of animals, fun activities and gentle questions to help children reflect on how they feel and understand the emotions they experience. The activity book is designed to be universal and used within a school lesson, as part of a group of lessons or one-to-one between parent, caregiver, or child support worker. Laura hopes that the activity book is used as a thoughtful, calming, and comfortable way to generate conversations with children about their feelings and wellbeing. The pages within the book can be used over a period of time in a variety of different ways. For example, having an assortment of stationery materials on hand to encourage children and (grown-ups) creativity.