My Healthy, Happy Mind Activity Journal (Year 3)

My Healthy, Happy Mind is a series of engaging pupil activity journals and lesson plans, written for each year group in Key Stage 2, which support the delivery of the RSHE curriculum. The lessons focus on teaching strategies to help support children’s, emotional literacy, resilience, self-esteem, mental health and ways to seek support when needed.

My Healthy, Happy Mind Level 3 has been written for pupils in Year 3 and contains a thirteen-lesson activity booklet for pupils with accompanying lesson plans. These include; assessments, printable craft activities, practical games and ideas, all aimed at engaging children of all abilities in creative and reflective learning.

The first lesson is a baseline assessment, to assist in assessing and monitoring learning. Throughout the following twelve lessons within Level 3 pupils will discover:

• What makes them unique and to respect their own and others’ differences.
• That keeping a healthy mind helps them to make healthy choices and ways to help them keep their minds healthy.
• That there is a normal range of emotions, that they could feel in different situations and to recognise and talk about these emotions.
• That their feelings can affect their actions and practical strategies to help them calm down and feel better.
• How to scale what they are feeling and how to judge whether their behaviour is appropriate and proportionate.
• How important friendships are in making us feel happy and how to build healthy friendships.
• To identify how the body feels when they are worried and ways to help them deal with their worries.
• That their mind enjoys learning and being challenged and that mistakes are part of the learning process.
• The mental and physical benefits of healthy eating habits and risks associated with unhealthy eating habits.
• The importance of healthy sleeping habits and ways to help them get better quality sleep.
• The basic benefits of movement for their body and mind and different ways they can move their bodies in different places.
• When and how to find support if they are worried about their own or someone else’s wellbeing.

At the end of the journal there is also space for pupils to reflect and explain what they have learnt.

The journals and lesson plans are all easily accessible and can be stored for future use by downloading the PDF.

Find out more or check out our other resources at www.teachinghealthandwellbeing.com