Emotions – KS1 lesson plan

Developed with teachers and NHS-approved, this lesson helps pupils to notice and name emotions and feelings. They will learn to recognise how they are feeling and express it to those around them.

A "Guidance for teachers" document contains details on how to link mental wellbeing lesson plans to school-wide approaches around social and emotional learning.

Curriculum

Supports the Relationships and Health Education curriculum

By the end of primary school, pupils should know:

• that there is a normal range of emotions (for example, happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, nervousness) and a scale of emotions that all humans feel in relation to different experiences and situations
• how to recognise and talk about their emotions, including having a varied vocabulary of words to use when talking about their own and others' feelings
• how to judge whether what they are feeling and how they are behaving is appropriate and proportionate

Supports the PSHE curriculum

KS1 – Pupils learn:

• H11 – about different feelings that humans can experience 
• H12 – how to recognise and name different feelings 
• H13 – how feelings can affect people's bodies and how they behave 
• H14 – how to recognise what others might be feeling 
• H15 – to recognise that not everyone feels the same at the same time, or feels the same about the same things

Learning outcomes

After this lesson, pupils will be able to:

• name and recognise different feelings
• describe how others might be feeling
• show some ways of representing feelings