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4 outdoor lessons about mental health and wellbeing for Year 5 & 6

UKS2 Mental health & well-being

Inspire your UKS2 class with a series of engaging outdoor PSHE lessons that nurture emotional literacy, self-regulation, and positive mental health. Through hands-on mindfulness activities, creative self-care tasks, and reflective explorations of emotions, pupils will build resilience, empathy, and a lasting appreciation for well-being in nature.

Lesson Plans

Identifying how emotions are felt in the body

Lead your UKS2 class on an engaging outdoor PSHE lesson, where they actively identify and explore a wide range of emotions and how they are experienced in the body. This hands-on approach builds crucial emotional literacy and self-regulation skills, fostering greater self-awareness and empathy.

Learning objective:

To identify a wide range of emotions and how they are experienced in the body.

Understanding what mental health is

Take your UKS2 class outdoors for an engaging PSHE lesson as they explore and develop their understanding of mental health. Through hands-on activities such as creating personal emotion line graphs and reflecting on how feelings affect well-being, pupils will build self-awareness and strengthen their emotional literacy.

Learning objective:

To understand what mental health is.

Recognising mental health in daily life

Empower your UKS2 class with this outdoor PSHE lesson that encourages them to think about mental health as an everyday priority. Through creative self-care activities and open discussion, pupils will grow in confidence, develop practical coping strategies, and enhance their emotional literacy.

Learning objective:

To recognise that mental health is a part of daily life and how to take care of it.

Learning how to support mental health

Introduce your UKS2 class to the power of mindfulness with this engaging outdoor PSHE lesson. Through practical activities and reflection, pupils will discover how mindful moments can boost mental well-being, while developing self-regulation, coping strategies, and an appreciation for the benefits of time spent in nature.

Learning objective:

To learn about everyday ways to support mental health.

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