“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.” — Unknown Give this worksheet out to students so that they can: A) work out what they want from a friend and B) who they are as a friend. Benefits: Students get to become aware of what makes/doesn’t make a friend. Students may realise that they do/don’t treat their friends the way they want to be treated. It can be printed in colour as well as black and white. Included: 1 x A4 sheet with both A & B sections 1 x A4 sheet with two A sections 1 x A4 sheet with two B sections Please print 2) and 3) double-sided, landscape, and short-edge binding.

This A4 poster supports teachers and students in choosing healthy strategies when dealing with difficult moments. At these times, it often feel like our stomach is in knots; hence, the sub-heading is Untying the knots. It is available in colour as well as black and white. Please watch out for more resources to support this poster.

This dice pairs well with the 12 self-regulation strategies poster. It comes in colour as well as black and white. Use as a way for students to choose a self-regulation strategy when they can’t get there themselves.

My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Use them as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task. A simple and effective way to take a mindful moment is to stop for 2 minutes and observe the sounds around you. In this video, I explain more and complete my own sound map.

‘Object study’ is one of several videos I have created to support students at home: as they take on the challenges of distance learning, they will need help to keep anxiety levels down. My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Share this video with your students, to encourage them to maintain their wellbeing during this uncertain time. Use it as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task. This is similar to my ‘Find something new’ video, but here you take an everyday object and discover more about it.

‘Hand breathing’ is one of several videos I have created to support students at home: as they take on the challenges of distance learning, they will need help to keep anxiety levels down. My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Share this video with your students, to encourage them to maintain their wellbeing during this uncertain time. Use it as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task. You always have your breath with you, so it’s a great tool to help you be mindful. Tracing around your hand can help you to take five even and full breaths. In this video, I show you how.

‘Kim’s Game’ is one of several videos I have created to support students at home: as they take on the challenges of distance learning, they will need help to keep anxiety levels down. My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Share this video with your students, to encourage them to maintain their wellbeing during this uncertain time. Use it as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task. This task is about training your brain muscle to be mindfully focussed, using a well known game called Kim’s game. In it you will need to work out the missing object. Remember to be mindful of how it feels in your mind and body to focus.

Glitter Jars is one of several videos I have created to support students at home: as they take on the challenges of distance learning, they will need help to keep anxiety levels down. My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Share this video with your students, to encourage them to maintain their wellbeing during this uncertain time. Use them as mindful moments, brain breaks or transition tasks. In this video, I discuss how to make glitter jars and how they can be used to take be mindful. I have also included a mindful glitter jar moment at the end of the video.

‘Heartbeat’ is one of several videos I have created to support students at home: as they take on the challenges of distance learning, they will need help to keep anxiety levels down. My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Share this video with your students, to encourage them to maintain their wellbeing during this uncertain time. Use it as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task. In this video I encourage you to do some exercise to get your heartbeat racing and then use the heartbeat as a focus for Mindfulness. Enjoy!

‘Find something new’ is one of several videos I have created to support students at home: as they take on the challenges of distance learning, they will need help to keep anxiety levels down. My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Share this video with your students, to encourage them to maintain their wellbeing during this uncertain time. Use it as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task. In this video, I invite you to look carefully around a room in your home and find something you haven’t noticed before.

‘Everyday task’ is one of several videos I have created to support students at home: as they take on the challenges of distance learning, they will need help to keep anxiety levels down. My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Share this video with your students, to encourage them to maintain their wellbeing during this uncertain time. Use it as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task. Here I explain how you can use simple everyday tasks to help you practice Mindfulness.

This 1-page pdf is a simple list of A to Z options for gratitude. Use it to help students think about things they can be grateful for, create their own lists or use to complete gratitude tasks.

This pdf resource, for primary students, uses a real story as a springboard into lessons about ‘worry’. Wellbeing activities and a Mindful moment are included to help you deliver a practical lesson. Please choose from the ideas I have described or use them all. Additionally, include other stories that highlight the same theme, to enrich your teaching. You will not find a set of photocopiable sheets within this resource; instead, use the activities I have designed with regular classroom resources.

This 4-page pdf, is a collection of personal ideas, standard practices and YouTube clips, to support mindful-minutes. This collection is designed with staff meetings in mind but can be used in other settings too. Sometimes a minute is all we have, and sometimes that is all that it takes, to ground ourselves back into the present.

This 3-page PDF file promotes a simple activity to support students to think about who they are, We all have a range of personality traits that we employ at different times. By considering what those traits are, we can have more power over the choices we make.

My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Use them as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task. Often when you do Mindfulness you are asked to focus only on your breath. It sounds simple but it’s actually quite a challenging thing to do. I’m going to show you a way that might make it a bit easier.

My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Use them as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task. In this video, you will use your sense of hearing to work out common sounds. You will need to be mindful so that you can focus on only one thing: listening.

My videos are simple and effective Mindfulness tasks for everyone: involving focus; observation; thinking about thoughts; using senses and breathing. Use them as a mindful moment, brain break or transition task. In this video you will learn to eat mindfully. You will learn to appreciate your food, be thankful to the person who made it and use your senses to take notice of what you are eating.

This 1-page pdf gives real advice about teaching formal Mindfulness practices to primary classes.

This A3 pdf document is a collection of quotes and personal understandings about the nature and reality of thoughts. Use as a poster or teaching aid to give students insights and a better understanding of their inner world.