KS2 · Physical education · Year 4
Use mindfulness techniques to help manage emotions
Health and wellbeing: mindfulness, meditative balances and relaxation techniques
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can use movement and expression to perform a range of actions that represent emotions that I may experience in life.
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Use mindfulness techniques to help manage emotions: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
What you’ll learn
I can use movement and expression to perform a range of actions that represent emotions that I may experience in life.
Key learning points
- Move: moving our bodies to music requires us to perform actions with clear, defined movements that express emotion.
- Think: understanding the words of a song helps create meaningful actions to express our emotion.
- Feel: striving to always try your best, even if you feel embarrassed or you find it difficult, shows self-motivation.
- Connect: helping others in the group to create movements linked to words shows cooperation and trust.
Words to know
- emotions
- feelings that we have in response to a situation, event or thought that influence our mood or behaviour
- actions
- movements that show specific meanings, emotions or technical skills.
- expression
- showing how you feel
Common mistakes
Pupils may feel uncomfortable or vulnerable when reflecting on the abstract ideas of the poem, which can make it difficult for them to focus, relax and link their work to the meaning of the poem.
Support pupils to open their minds to new concepts and to focus only on themself when reflecting. Explain to pupils that only by trying something with full effort and concentration can the benefits be felt.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Play calm music while the pupils work through the poem task to support focus.