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PSHE Curriculum

Vision

At St. Luke’s, we consider the mental health and well-being of our pupils as one of our top priorities. We aim to provide a whole school culture that supports children to build their resilience, confidence and self-esteem as well as teaching them how to self-regulate during stressful times.

myHappymind

myHappymind is a whole school programme that teaches our children to understand how their brain works to control their thoughts and feelings. It focuses on understanding neurodevelopment and neuroplasticity in a child friendly way. It is an NHS-backed curriculum in primary schools, secondary schools, and nurseries and is focused on building resilience, self-esteem, and happiness in children.

One of our favourite tools to make us feel happier and settled is happy breathing. Children are taught that when we feel scared or anxious the amygdala part of our brain takes over and stimulates our fight, flight or freeze reaction. The only way to turn this off is to bring as much oxygen as you can to your brain, so we breathe in and out slowly; this is happy breathing. Ask your child about happy breathing - they will be happy to show you! 

The children work through 5 modules:

 Module

Children Learn

1. Meet Your Brain

  • The different parts of our brain and how they help us.
  • How to use Happy Breathing to help us when we feel sad, stressed or worried.
  • What happens in our brain when we learn something new and how we can look after our brain.

2. Celebrate 

  • What Character Strengths are and why they matter.
  • How to recognise Character Strengths in ourselves.
  • How understanding Character Strengths can make us feel.

3. Appreciate

  • How to develop an Attitude of Gratitude
  • How to be grateful for others, experiences and ourselves.
  • How giving and receiving gratitude makes us feel.

4. Relate

  • Why relating to others is so important.
  • How Active Listening can help us to build relationships with other people.
  • How to see things from a different perspective.

5. Engage

  • Why it is important to have goals that we are passionate about.
  • How to set our own goals.
  • That when we feel good, we do good.


 Learn more here: https://myhappymind.org/myHappymind  

Using myHappymind at home

myHappymind has developed a range of resources that can be accessed online on your computer, or through an app on your phone. The resources allow children to continue to practise some of the habits they have developed at school, such as Happy Breathing, for you to learn more about what they are learning in the program. Also included are activities for you to do together at home, to complement the in-school lessons.

To access these materials just go to https://myhappymind.org/parent-resources and enter your name, email, and authentication code. Please contact school for the authentication code.

 Or scan this QR code to sign up

We really encourage you to make use of this free content so that you can support your child in getting the best out of the curriculum. If you have any questions about the curriculum, please contact your child’s class teacher, Mrs Scott or Miss Redmond.