10 fabulous mindfullness worksheets to use with children or young people or indeed adults. Useful for PSHE and working with those who are needing to focus or suffer with anxiety. These worksheets are used currently with whole classes or individuals.

A complete KS2 mental health lesson on understanding emotions. Includes an engaging PowerPoint leading you through the lesson, differentiated activities, resources and a mini assessment. Develop children’s understanding of their emotions, show them how to identify emotions and teach what to do when you have negative emotions. Animated PowerPoint Covers: identifying emotions within memories, knowing the four main emotions, understanding why all emotions are healthy, even negative ones, strategies for identifying emotions, healthy coping strategies for managing emotions, understanding emotion scales, preventing negative emotions from turning you into a monster Use the activities to foster high quality dialogue. Provide reflection time. Create a positive and calm atmosphere which enables progress. Get children talking about mental health and provide them with strategies for understanding and managing their emotions. A range of mental health support options are offered if children feel they need to follow up/delve deeper with anything covered in class. Ideal for a KS2 class, easily adaptable for KS1. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in my other mental health lessons covering: Self Esteem Dreams and Aspirations Or why not check out my mental health awareness week resources: KS1 Mental Health Bundle KS2 Mental Health Bundle

This is an engaging 36 slide PowerPoint ideal for a KS1 teddy bear assembly for raising awareness and understanding of mental health. 5 key teaching points included, explaining complex issues in a way appropriate for KS1. Explained with teddy bears it enables young children to comfortably discuss this important topic. Useful for Mental Health Awareness Week in primary schools. Could also be a useful KS1 PSHE lesson on discussing and coping with feelings to be used at any point throughout the year. Takes the children through these key question: What is mental health? A child friendly definition. What should we do when things get tough? Strategies for coping with intense feelings, inspirational quotes from well known fairy tales and reasons for keeping active. How do I keep my mind healthy? Easy everyday activities that can keep your mind healthy. Who has mental health problems? 4 famous people share their experiences. What have we learned today? It is important to talk about our emotions, ask for help when we need support and to look after our minds and bodies. Who can we ask for help? 4 sources of support supplied. Lots of opportunities for discussion and higher level thinking. All concepts explained clearly. All child friendly terms used. Relevant for KS1. You can find more high quality KS2 resources at my shop. You might also be interested in my other new resources for mental health awareness week: Emotion Cards Mental Health Awareness Posters KS1 Mental Health Bundle

8 Lesson Course Suitable for Key Stage 2- Key stage 4. These great resources to print and use in your school or community centre. They are unique colourful resources designed and tested by teachers. Save yourself hours of planning time with this –PRINT and GO- Anger management resource pack. The pack includes the following: •8 Full lessons as detailed below •Lesson Objectives in large print to display on the board •Lesson plans including back up plans for difficult behaviour and extension activities •Lessons all include starter activities, lots of main activities and plenary activities. •Learning objectives and outcomes clearly shown •Attendance log •Achievements log •End of course assessment •Certificate of attendance •Display materials. 8 full lessons approximately and hour in length, plus different activities, such as research activities, art and design activities and ICT activities which have various time lengths from 10 minutes to a couple of hours. Lessons outlines are as follows: 1.What is anger? / Anger is a normal emotion and one of many. 2.What causes anger? 3.What happens to myself and others when I get angry? 4.Ways to deal with anger. 5.Passive, assertive and aggressive, and ways to defuse anger. 6.Relaxation techniques. 7.Self talk 8.Reflecting on what I have leant about anger and an action plan for the future. The course is based around kinaesthetic / hands on activities with lessons including tasks such as reading, writing, speaking, listening, picture/word matching, colouring, thinking, role play, videos, playing card games, cutting and sticking, individual work, pair work, group work. This course is designed by teachers for teachers to save you hours of time. Resources for you to use over and over again. Everything you need is included. You will not have to find anything else – PRINT and GO!!

5 weeks worth of challenges which both key worker children and remote learners can engage in to support their mental well-being.

This unit of work is several weeks for your TA to deliver for a small group of pupils. I have written it for children who need to develop friendships and friendship skills. I hope you find it useful. A TA can pick this up with no explanation or support and should be able to deliver with just an hour or so to familiarise herself, print resources etc. I have also made a game in case your school doesn't have friendship type games. Enjoy your weekend. I hope it saved you some time and energy and that your children learn some friendship and social skills. Thank you for buying from me. I would appreciate a friendly review as I have kept the cost down, please bear in mind the amount of work when you leave my review. All pictures are from Dreamstime Phil17, copyrightfreephotos.com where no naming is required but came from sunmaster or from clipart and are all copyright free.

Change How You Feel Series Sensory Modulation Strategies for Managing Intense Emotions and Challenging Scenarios Teachers are increasingly called on to support students who are in distress. Having a range of strategies, effective for both children and teachers, to reduce stress and increase feelings of safety and calm can enhance teacher and student emotional health and wellbeing, resilience and confidence. Sensory modulation changes how you feel through using your senses (such as sight, sound, smell, taste, touch and movement). It changes the physiology of the body, and in doing so creates a positive shift in feelings. Research shows that body based interventions, like sensory modulation, target the brain centres that control the stress response and are thus more effective for people in emotional distress, who have experienced trauma, or have developmental or learning difficulties. Sensory modulation helps children, teenagers and adults to: • feel more grounded when spacey, zoned out or having difficulty focusing • self soothe when feeling self-hatred, shame, sadness or coping with loss • calm down when feeling anxious, scared, angry or restless • relax when feeling physically uptight or mentally stressed • feel more energised and focused when tired, lethargic, or having trouble concentrating • increase feelings of safety and security when afraid or troubled by distressing worries or memories • self-manage pain or inability to sleep • increase positive feelings in the moment when feeling sad or worried • use alternatives to acting out or hurting themselves when extremely distressed The following worksheets recommend sensory modulation strategies to help teachers and students in particular situations. Strategies identified focus on the power sensations, which are considered the most effective and thus useful for multiple scenarios. As skills and confidence increase with use, additional sensory strategies can be explored and included, which will further enhance effectiveness and personal self-mastery. The ‘Change How You Feel Series’ includes: Change how you feel: panic, anxiety and stress Change how you feel: grounding Change how you feel: anger and agitation Change how you feel: enhance feelings of safety Change how you feel: difficulty sleeping Change how you feel: feeling numb Change how you feel: cigarette cravings Change how you feel: cravings for substances Change how you feel: self-harm Change how you feel: pain Change how you feel: auditory hallucinations (A.H) Change how you feel: for people with dementia Change how you feel: waiting room design The Change how you feel series are available in PDF at the TES shop – www.tes.com (search for ‘Change how you feel’ series). They are also available with other useful teaching resources as part of the Sensory Modulation Resource Manual, an e-book also available at the TES shop.

12 activities to compliment the story, Ruby’s Worry. Included in this pack is a cutting activity for children to create their own monster.

8 different scenario cards for children to read and discuss how they would resolve the issues. Created for children with SEMH needs but adaptable and probably useful for most children.

The activities, lesson plans and assembly plans in this toolkit - which meet the learning objectives for the PSHE curriculum - will help children to think about who they are as a person, recognise what they are good at, identify positives things about themselves, learn from their experiences and set goals. There are also activities to support staff wellbeing. For more primary mental health resources visit www.mentallyhealthyschools.org.uk

A series of simple activity sheets to help children stay calm, positive and recognise what they are grateful for. I used this as part of a “mindful moments” session during registration. There is also a set focussing on dealing with worries.

Editable emotions check in used for daily PSHE to support children in developing their understanding of emotions. This resource is linked into the Disney film Inside Out. Can also be used with Thrive.

Delivery workbooks for KS1/KS2/lower KS3 Resources to support including: Facilitator flipchart Parental consent form pro forma Parental information booklet Worksheets - Billy the robot, posters, Worries, Rights and responsibilities, imaginary place, feelings, thoughts, behaviours. Also free supporting posters and worksheets

Mindfulness Colouring Set 3: A series of 22 panelled geometrical patterned mindfulness colouring sheets which help pupils to feel calmer and to aid concentration. Mindfulness Colouring Sets 1 to 3 are available. For more Outstanding Resources for Outstanding Teachers, please visit my website www.teachersvault.co.uk

Positive self-talk display pack for anxiety Help children to change their thoughts when they feel anxious by displaying these thought bubbles in your classroom or area. Print the banner as a poster in Adobe, you can choose how many sheets to print it over using the settings. What is included? How to change ‘Self-talk’ list 17 thought bubble suggestions Positive ‘self-talk’ list Positive ‘self-talk’ worksheet ‘When I feel anxious I can say’ banner

This package is part of the Wellbeing@School series and contains a webinar on empathy and a resource with five activities built around the empathic behaviour of Gratitude (Gratitude-Keeping track and giving back). The activities can be stand–alone or worked through as a series of lessons. Psychology has found that when empathy is activated, we can observe the expression of gratitude.

This is a plan of 8 sessions for pupil well being. I have planned it for KS2 but could easily be adapted for KS1 or more vulnerable KS3 pupils. I have written them using some ideas from Thrive and Nurture group training and some other, wider reading (some of the happiness resources are from Relax Kids and can be downloaded for free. Everything else I have made myself). Sessions address: helpful and unhelpful thoughts, happiness, being in nature and how this helps us, having a healthy body (exercise), superheroes - celebrating being us, how our friends help us, healthy bodies (diet - cooking, including recipes) and developing imagination and increasing independence.