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LivWell Mix Lesson 2 - Healthy Mind

Year 5

Year 6

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Lesson overview

Lesson Objectives
  • 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.
Key Vocabulary

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.

Curriculum Links
  • Developing pupils’ confidence, resilience, and knowledge so that they can keep themselves mentally healthy.
  • Supports pupils understanding of how having an active lifestyle can support them mentally.
Equipment and Resources
  • Lesson PPT, paper, pen and colours.

Lesson activities

Starter Activity
  • 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.
  • Active learning: Tell pupils that each wall represents a different feeling displayed on slide 5. Pupils must listen to the situation called on (from slide 6) and run to the wall which best represents how they would feel.
Main Activity
  • Groups discussion: What does a ‘healthy mind’ mean? In small groups pupils must write down all of their ideas and get ready to tell the class.
  • Roleplay task: In small groups ask pupils to talk about a time when they were sad, felt stressed or unhappy. Pupils must act out an example situation and suggest a way to make it better. Repeat the task and this time ask pupils to think about when they felt happy, and excited.
  • Explain and talk through slides 10 and 11 about understanding our minds.
  • Watch the 5 ways to wellbeing video and talk about it with the class.
Plenary
  • Whole class discussion: ask the class how they can be kind to their minds and gain feedback.
  • Ask pupils to design a poster to be KIND to their
  • Recap the lesson and ask pupils to write down 3 healthy mind activities they are going to do this week. This could form a wall display.

Related Downloads

  • Lesson Plan - Healthy Mind
  • Resource - Healthy Mind

Lessons in this unit

Lesson Plan Content

LivWell Mix Lesson 1 - Healthy Habits
LivWell Mix Lesson 2 - Healthy Mind
LivWell Mix Lesson 3 - Determination
LivWell Mix Lesson 4 - Problem Solving
LivWell Mix Lesson 5 - Outdoor Adventure
LivWell Mix Lesson 6 - Anger Management
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