LivWell Mix Lesson 2 - Healthy Mind

• To identify how we feel in different situations.
• Why it is important to have a healthy mind.
• How we can be kind to our mind.

Healthy mind, feelings, sad, excited, happy, organisation, resilience, stressed, coping, confidence, thinking, skills, connecting, focus, mental nutrients, mindset, play, experiences, brain, challenges, sleep, down time, relaxation, thoughts, physical.

• Developing pupils’ confidence, resilience, and knowledge so that they can keep themselves mentally healthy.

• Lesson PPT, paper, pen and colours.

• Introduce the session with the lesson objectives along with the key words pupils will hear.
• Pairs discussion: Ask pupils to talk about a time when they felt any of the feelings on slide 4. Invite pupils to share their experiences with the class.
• ‘How do I feel?’ activity: Ask pupils to discuss how it feels to be happy or sad and to describe feelings and what they do using the questions on slide 5. Initiate a whole class discussion.

• ‘How would you feel?’ activity: Working in pairs ask pupils to discuss how they would feel in all the situations on slide 6. Invite pupils to share their responses with the class.
• Explain to the class what a healthy mind means and how we can look after our minds using slides 7 to 9.
• Stay well postcard activity: Ask pupils to design various postcards to show what they can do when they have different feelings. Encourage them to make them colourful and draw different pictures on them.
• Explain to the class how they can be kind to their mind using slide 11.
• Showing care activity: Ask pupils to explain at least two ways to show care to a friend. Write down as many different responses on the board.

• Show the video about how to keep a healthy mind.
• Recap the lesson and ask pupils to write down 3 healthy mind activities they are you going to do this week. This could form a wall display.