Feeling Good: Sorted
On this page, you can download all of our Feeling Good For Schools resources, including:
- Audio tracks that are listened to within lessons and in pupils' own time
- PowerPoints for each of our lesson topics
- Teacher training, that explains that science and theory behind our work (and its link to sports science) as well as providing an introduction to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
- Pupil booklets that can be completed alongside the lessons
- Wellbeing surveys that can be used to measure the wellbeing of staff and pupils
- Peer-led intervention training that you may wish to use with selected ambassadors at your school who champion wellbeing
Download a FREE sample of our lesson PowerPoint slides and a FREE sample of our pupil booklet.
Feeling Good For Schools: Audio Tracks and Lessons
Audio Tracks
Each lesson is accompanied by an audio track that should be listened to within the lesson, and can be accessed via our free Feeling Good Teens app by young people in their own time. It is recommended that each track is listened to once a day, several times a week, before moving on to the next track. This enables the information provided in the tracks to sink in and be remembered.
When young people listen to the audio tracks at school, it is OK if they close their eyes, put their heads on desks or doodle at the same time: a little information will be absorbed each time, even if it seems like they aren't listening. Part of teaching resilience is teaching the skill of repetition: the more we repeat something, the more likely it is to become a habit, like brushing our teeth. We want young people to learn mental health skills for life so that they can use them if and when they need them: we take a proactive approach to mental health (we want people to be in a state of good mental health in the same way that physical exercise helps people to be in a state of good physical fitness) rather than a reactive approach further down the line, when long waiting times and a lack of access to specialist support can make things worse.
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Intro Lessons: Four Foundation Topics (4 sessions)
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These lessons explain how Olympic athletes use techniques like visualisation and practice to achieve their goals. The lessons explore how to put your mind and body into a relaxed state so that you can feel calmer, and therefore more confident and less anxious. They teach young people how to manage stressful situations and they help them to make sense of their (and others') emotions.
The four foundation topics (which could be taught over four separate lessons) include:
- Relaxation, resilience and visualisation (Audio: 3 Minute Mindfulness. 3 mins 29)
- Breathing and other coping strategies (Audio: Get Relaxed. 6 mins 40)
- Inner safe place (Audio: Your Inner Safe Place. 6 mins 08)
- Understanding emotions (Audio: Build Your Self-Confidence. 5 mins 48)
The lessons address:
- what wellbeing is
- what resilience is and how we can learn to become more resilient ourselves
- the relationship between mental and physical health
- how athletes use visualisation, alongside practice, to achieve their goals and how this relates to our lives
- what mindfulness is and how it can help us to feel calmer and more relaxed
- how to use breathing and other techniques to help us to manage stress and feel more relaxed
- how to identify and talk about emotions
- how to use gratitude to feel more positive
Social media (Part 1 of 2)
There are two parts to the Social Media topic.
(Audio: Your Best Self. 5 mins 16)
In Part 1, young people will consider what their best self looks like and explore different aspects of social media, including the relationship between social media use and mental health.
Part 1:
- asks pupils to reflect on some opinions that have been put forward about social media
- considers the reasons that age restrictions exist
- gets pupils thinking about the time they spend on social media
Social media (Part 2 of 2)
LESSON POWERPOINT SLIDES FOR SOCIAL MEDIA PART 2
PUPIL BOOKLET FOR SOCIAL MEDIA PART 2
(Audio: Stress Buster. 6 mins 28)
Building on themes from Part 1, in Part 2, young people will learn ways to manage stress, consider the positives and negatives of social media and learn how to protect themselves.
Part 2:
- explores the relationship between social media use and mental health
- compares what we see on TV, in magazines and on social media with the reality
- explores the relationships between well-known celebrities and fictional characters with social media (both the positives and negatives)
- reminds pupils of some of the pitfalls of having an online presence
- invites pupils to revisit the choices they make for themselves around their social media use and how to ensure that they protect themselves
Overcoming challenges and setbacks (1 session)
LESSON POWERPOINT SLIDES FOR OVERCOMING CHALLENGES AND SETBACKS
PUPIL BOOKLET FOR OVERCOMING CHALLENGES AND SETBACKS
In this lesson, young people learn to build self-confidence as well as overcome setbacks and challenges in life.
Pupils:
- reflect on how successful people have dealt with setbacks before going on to succeed
- consider and discuss how pupils themselves respond to challenging situations
- reframe the language used when dealing with setbacks
- reframe negative thoughts
Positive values, friendship and conflict resolution (1 session)
LESSON POWERPOINT SLIDES FOR POSITIVE VALUES, FRIENDSHIP AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
PUPIL BOOKLET FOR POSITIVE VALUES, FRIENDSHIP AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
In this lesson, pupils learn techniques to reduce stress and develop supportive relationships via audio-track listening, class discussions and reflection.
Pupils:
- about both the qualities to look for in a good friend and how to be a good friend to someone else
- how to deal with disagreements with friends
- how to talk about emotions with friends
Resilience and the relationship between physical and mental health (1 session)
LESSON POWERPOINT SLIDES FOR RESILIENCE AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH
PUPIL BOOKLET FOR RESILIENCE AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH
In this lesson, young people learn skills in mindfulness and resilience. They also gain an understanding of mental health in a way that is de-stigmatising. This is achieved through audio-track listening, class discussions and reflections.
Pupils explore:
- stigmas that exist in relation to mental health that don’t exist in the same way when talking about physical health
- myths and facts about mental health
- realistic and achievable ways of developing resilience
Aspirations and expectations (1 session)
LESSON POWERPOINT FOR ASPIRATIONS AND EXPECTATIONS
PUPIL BOOKLET FOR ASPIRATIONS AND EXPECTATIONS
In this lesson, young people will begin to set goals for their future and learn how they can achieve their goals, by finding good things from their past as well as understanding expectations hopefulness.
Pupils:
- learn the difference between aspirations and expectations and the relationship they have with one another
- reflect on the impact that other people’s expectations of us can have on our wellbeing and how to manage that
- learn what it means to be hopeful and how having hope can help us to set and achieve goals
Training for Teachers
We know that teachers’ knowledge about mental health and their confidence in, and enthusiasm for, teaching pupils about it can vary, so we have devised training that:
- provides school staff with greater knowledge of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), so that they know what to look out for and the impact that ACEs can have on young people’s mental health, and therefore their overall experience at school
- explains the science and theory behind the work that we do and the resources we’ve created to improve whole school wellbeing
Science and Theory behind Feeling Good Programme:
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Pupil Booklets
Here, you can find all of the booklets for all of the lessons in one place.
Intro Lessons: Four foundation topics (4 sessions)
Overcoming challenges and setbacks
Positive values, friendship and conflict resolution
Resilience and the relationship between physical and mental health
Wellbeing Surveys
You could provide pupils with a copy of our Pupil wellbeing survey before and after any wellbeing intervention takes place to identify any changes in their wellbeing as a result of the intervention.
You could also provide staff at your school with a copy of our Staff wellbeing survey to get a snapshot of how their wellbeing is at any given moment in the school year.
Peer-led Intervention Training (for pupils)
If you are training a group of young people to become Wellbeing Ambassadors, you may find our Wellbeing Ambassador Training useful.
