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Lesson 5 - Positivity

Year 5

Year 6

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Lesson overview

Lesson Objectives
  • To understand the meaning of positivity.
  • Recognise positive qualities.
  • Top tips to keep positive.
Key Vocabulary

Positive, negative, thoughts, happiness, sad, feelings, kind, polite, attitude, behaviours, fun, enjoyment, relationships, habits, caring, help and support.

Curriculum Links
  • Understanding the consequences of their behaviour and actions.
  • Prepares learners for British modern life (Respectful, Responsible citizens).
  • Developing pupils’ confidence, resilience, and knowledge so that they can keep themselves mentally healthy.
Equipment & Resources
  • Lesson PPT, Print bookmarks from PPT. paper, card, pen and colours.

Lesson activities

Starter Activity
  • Introduce the session with the lesson objectives along with the key words pupils will hear.
  • Explain what positivity means using slide 3.
  • Class discussion: Ask the class what it feels like to be happy and the types of things they do when they are feeling happy. Explain what happiness is using slide 5.
  • My happy head: Ask pupils to draw a happy head on a piece of paper and to write all the things that make them feel happy and positive on it.
Main Activity
  • Sharing stories: Ask pupils to tell a partner about all the happy and positive people they know and to write down what makes them positive people.
  • Talk and explain some of the things that positive people do using slide 8.
  • Positive qualities group activity: Explain what a positive quality is and ask pupils to work in small groups and chat about positive qualities they each have. Pupils can write their positive quality on a post-it note and stick it on the board explaining it to the class.
  • Individual activity: Ask pupils to complete the task on slide 11 about how they are a positive person.
  • Role play activity: Working in a small group, pupils must create a positive story as a role play. They can use their ‘Being a positive person’ answers to help them with ideas.
Plenary
  • Positive thinking card: Pupils can design a positive thinking card that they could send to someone else to cheer them up.
  • Positive thoughts: Ask pupils to create their own bookmark with 3 key questions on it.
  • Recap on the lesson with the class about what they have learnt and talk through the top tips to staying positive.

Related Downloads

  • Lesson Plan - Healthy Mind L5
  • Resource - Healthy Mind R5

Lessons in this unit

Lesson Plan Content

Lesson 6 - Anger Management
Lesson 5 - Positivity
Lesson 4 - Feelings
Lesson 3 - Resilience
Lesson 2 - Growth Mindset
Lesson 1 - A Healthy Mind
Be happy. Be healthy.

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