Pages / Notes

  • Affirmations
  • 3 good things
  • Feeling ‘choughed’!
  • Positive pebbles
  • Rockpool reflections
  • Fill up your bucket
  • I am thankful for…
  • Kindness Challenge
  • A barrel of laughs

Feeling Safe / Help Seeking 

  • A safe place / Draw your safe place 
  • When I need help
  • Messages in a bottle
  • My crew…
  • My Anchors

5 ways to Wellbeing

  • 5 ways to wellbeing intro
  • 5 ways to wellbeing bingo
  • My ways to wellbeing – connect
  • My ways to wellbeing – get moving
  • My ways to wellbeing – find time for you
  • My ways to wellbeing – give
  • My ways to wellbeing – take notice

(About the 5 Ways to wellbeing)

Breathing 

  • Starfish breathing
  • Feather breathing

Grounding 

  • Drop your anchors – 54321
  • Beach brain maze

Self-care

  • Wellbeing chatterbox
  • Self care life ring
  • One week sleep tracker
  • Brilliant basics
  • My self-soothing treasure chest
  • Self care checklist
  • 1 night sleep tracker
  • My Anchors

Additional Activities

Water bead calm jars

Brilliant ME! Beads

Positives

Breathing ideas 

Why are breathing activities helpful?

5 Finger Breathing

Square Breathing

Deep Breathing

Lazy 8 Breathing

Triangle Breathing

Block Breathing

Breathing Bands

Meet Beerbohm the Yoga Cat

Young people have been involved in creating content and resources for Headstart via the Start Now website. Here are 2 breathing / calming activities created by young people with the fabulous animator Hannah Anastasi (hannahanastasi.com)

 

Useful Links / Resources

Whole Hearted School Counselling - low cost / free resources to download. Although American (so some terminology / spelling issues) highly recommended. 

ELSA Support - Low cost / free resources - huge range of resources and information. 

Exciting Teacher a few FREE resources. Otherwise a relative low cost subscription model accessing some excellent PSHE / emotional literacy materials and ideas

The SEAL Community - a home to the original DfE Social Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) resources alongside a whole range of other resources / articles / case studies.