Our emotions toolkit: different feelings

RSHE (PSHE)

Things that affect how we feel

Managing a range of emotions

Managing change

This unit focuses on how pupils experience, name, and manage a wider range of feelings such as excitement, frustration, worry, and sadness. Pupils build on their emotions toolkit, adding new strategies for managing their feelings.

Emotions: What helps me to be happy?

Depiction or discussion of distress or humiliation e.g. bullying.

Depiction or discussion of peer pressure or bullying

Emotions give us {{}} about ourselves and the world around us.

We can feel emotions in different strengths.

Our emotions can change quickly, and many times, over a day.

Andeep has a funny feeling in his tummy and his heart is beating fast. Laura wants to cry and feels like she wants to shout. How could they both be feeling?

When might we feel worried, disappointed, upset or grumpy?

When might we feel enthusiastic, joyful, proud or grateful?

a feeling of being unhappy or without joy

feeling scared or nervous about something that might happen

Someone has been unkind to Sam in the playground. How might she be feeling?

Everyone experiences emotions in the same way.

We have to manage our emotions by ourselves.

Jun is feeling worried. What could he do to help him manage his feelings?

being aware of what's happening around you and how that makes you feel

to focus on what you're going to do tomorrow

It can be helpful to {{}} which emotion we are feeling because this can help us to manage it.

Our emotions toolkit: different feelings

Lesson outcome

Content guidance