Our emotional toolkit: handling transition
I can explain some of the emotions young people may feel about change and challenge.
Our emotional toolkit: handling transition
I can explain some of the emotions young people may feel about change and challenge.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Switch to our new teaching resources now - designed by teachers and leading subject experts, and tested in classrooms.
These resources were created for remote use during the pandemic and are not designed for classroom teaching.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Everybody faces change and challenge during their life.
- Change can cause a range of emotions.
- We might feel anxious if we do not know what to expect.
- We might feel disappointment if something does not go as we planned or hoped.
- Emotions around change can be tricky, as change can often feel like something we cannot control.
Keywords
Challenge - in this context, something new and difficult which needs determination and effort
Transition - when something changes or becomes something else
Anxious - feeling worried, nervous or unsure about something that might happen, like before a test or speaking in front of people; the feeling can also be felt in your body
Common misconception
Change should be avoided or controlled.
Change happens in many different ways across your lifetime. Many changes are really positive and mean new experiences and opportunities.
To help you plan your year 6 RSHE (PSHE) lesson on: Our emotional toolkit: handling transition, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 6 RSHE (PSHE) lesson on: Our emotional toolkit: handling transition, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom. Plus, you can set it as homework or revision for pupils and keep their learning on track by sharing an online pupil version of this lesson.
Explore more key stage 2 RSHE (PSHE) lessons from the Emotions: Managing our emotions through periods of change unit, dive into the full primary RSHE (PSHE) curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of sensitive content
- Depiction or discussion of peer pressure or bullying
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
Licence
Lesson video
Loading...
Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
face feeling relaxed or smiley
heart beating a little faster and tummy feeling twisted
feeling hot in the face and like you want to stomp your feet
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
something new and difficult which needs determination and effort
changing from one thing to another
feeling worried, nervous or unsure about something that might happen