believing in yourself and your abilities and feeling sure you can do things, even when they're hard

feeling good about yourself and knowing that you're a good person who deserves to be treated well

when something doesn't work out how you wanted or when we don't achieve something we wanted to

Our emotions toolkit: self-esteem

RSHE (PSHE)

Feeling down and lonely

Managing my emotions

Living happy lives

This unit explores how it feels to experience emotions such as jealousy, joy and fury. Pupils learn how to name and manage these emotions. Pupils develop self-esteem, understand feelings of loneliness and learn strategies for living happy, emotionally healthy lives.

Emotions: How can we add to our emotions toolkit?

not achieving something that we wanted to

how confident we feel about ourselves in general

something that changes or grows over time

by reminding ourselves of the things we can do

by reminding ourselves of the things that make us special

by seeing failure as a chance to try again

by receiving positive comments about ourselves from other people

by receiving negative comments about ourselves from other people

we can say positive things about ourselves

we can get support from our trusted adults

we should surround ourselves with people who support us

we should only listen to our negative thoughts

feelings we have inside, like happiness, sadness or anger

things that happen to us and how they make us feel

the way things become different to how they used to be

We cannot control which emotions we feel.

We cannot do things to manage our feelings.

If we were feeling worried, what could we do to manage our emotions?

so that our emotions can take over our lives

Why is it important to manage our feelings?

Our emotions toolkit: self-esteem

Lesson outcome