Category: Health and Wellbeing

PSE Other- Early Level

A collection of resources about ‘people who helps us’. A free sign up is required to download resources.

PSHE Responsibilities | Teaching Resources (tes.com)

Powerpoint slides on typical responsibilities of young children. Can be used to initiate discussion. Last slide is activity for children to write/draw their own responsibilities at home or school. They could also think of a new responsibility which they would like to have. Includes role-play cards. A free sign up is required to download resources

The Rainbow Fish assembly resource | Learning resources | National Improvement Hub (education.gov.scot)

This resource outlines an assembly for early years children which uses the book The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister to teach young children about the importance of sharing and friendship. There are also planners showing how the book can be used as a nursery to primary transition project.

MESP Third and Fourth Other

NHS Forth Valley Self Help Guides

Self help guides covering a range of topics including: self harm, anxiety, stress, sleeping, panic and food for thought.

Mental Health Foundation – Make it Count:

This guide is for teachers to help them create a classroom and school environment where children can thrive with good mental health.

Free podcast from The Centre on the Developing Child at Harvard University. The first guest of this special series is Centre Director Dr. Jack Shonkoff. He and host Sally Pfitzer discuss how to support healthy child development during a pandemic, including the importance of caring for caregivers. They also talk about what we’ve already learned as a result of the coronavirus, and what we hope to continue learning.

Meditation and Sleep Made Simple – Headspace App

An app to help you be: Less stressed. More resilient. Happier. It all starts with just a few minutes a day.

Mindshift App- Anxiety Canada

A free app designed to help teens and young adults cope with anxiety.

Calm App

Meditation techniques to aid with stress and sleep.

Apps to Support Mental and Emotional Wellbeing

This is a collection of apps that are designed to support young people, adults and families with their mental health and well-being. If you click on the image it will open the app site in a new window. Some of these do need a paid subscription to use them while others have been made freely available during the Covid situation

Clear Fear app
The fear of threat, or anxiety makes you want to fight it or run away. Instead, face your fear with the free, Clear Fear app and learn to reduce the physical responses to threat as well as changing thoughts and behaviours and releasing emotions. The app was developed for teenage mental health charity stem4
by Dr Nihara Krause, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, and uses the evidence-based treatment Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).The app can be personalised and can track progress and notice change. You can download the app, and the guide on using it during Covid-19, on the website below.

Planning for Choices and Changes- Second Level Discussion Starters

Planning for Choices and Changes- Second Level Online Learning

Planning for Choices and Changes- Second Level Other

MESP- Early Level Lessons

Smart Learning PSE

Web based resource to teach young children about the hazards and consequences they may face in everyday life and how to make the right choices to stay safe. Subscription required.

Bounce Back

A whole-school program from P1 to S2, Bounce Back! provides students with practical strategies and life skills to handle challenges and adversity encountered. Subscription required

Emotion Works

Set of resources and training for anyone involved in promoting and delivering emotional education in schools, nurseries and additional support services. Subscription required.

The ICE Pack- Knowing Me, Knowing You

The resource offers a combined social and emotional and skills development programme to support the delivery of a health and wellbeing curriculum. Through a whole school approach, the Knowing Me, Knowing You programme will support schools in building inclusiveness, health and wellbeing, active participation, citizenship and community thus developing the emotional and social attitudes and essential skills of children. Ages 3-12. Subscription required

Kitbag Resources (iffpraxis.com)

A set of resources to help develop our inner capacity for mindfulness, calm, resilience, compassion, relationship, reflection and so on – as individuals, in families, groups, teams and organisations.

Philosophy for Children

Web-based bank of lesson plans and resources to support P4C. These resources require a subscription.

Sesame Street in Communities Resources

In response to the unprecedented uncertainty facing young children and families, Sesame Workshop’s Caring for Each Other initiative marks the beginning of a commitment to support families throughout the COVID-19 health crisis with a broad variety of free resources.

Return to School Resources

Place2Be has put together a series of resources focused on community recovery, to help headteachers and school staff start to bring their schools back together following recent challenging times. Drawing on themes including hope, gratitude and connectedness, these assembly and class activity ideas are intended as a universal resource for all children, and staff are invited to use them as starting points to promote emotional wellbeing and resilience for all.

Assessing and Managing Risks

The ideas outlined will enable you to design an experience which will support children to consider their own and other people’s physical wellbeing by assessing and managing risk in the home environment or early years setting.

Keeping Safe in Emergency Situations

The ideas outlined will enable you to design experiences which will support children to develop their awareness of how to keep themselves and others safe when there is an emergency.

How do I feel when dealing with Difficult Situations?

The ideas outlined should enable you to design an experience which will support children to explore the different emotions they feel at certain times.

Making Good Choices about Road Safety

Children need the knowledge and understanding to make good choices about road safety. Good habits start early and it is important to continue to talk about road safety to reinforce messages.

How Our Bodies May Feel When We Are Nervous

Just like adults, children can feel worried and anxious at times. They can feel anxious about different things at different ages and at different times. This activity helps young children explore how their body may feel when they experience worry or anxiety.

Relaxation Strategies

Relaxation exercises help children to manage their response to worry and anxiety. These activities have been designed to provide a distraction from worrying thoughts.

Experiences That Can Cause Worry

Children can sometimes be anxious and worried about new or less familiar experiences such as visiting the dentist, having their haircut or moving house. This is often because they are not sure what will happen when they go. This activity explores a visit to the dentist and supports discussion to help ensure visiting the dentist is a pleasant experience for young children. You may wish to consider a different context depending on what is relevant for your children.