PP Lessons Term 2, 2016

Without thinking too much about it, what score would you give yourself right now to indicate how happy you feel about your life? Write it on a post it note and write why you chose the number you did. 10. Extremely happy (feeling ecstatic, joyous, fantastic) 9. Very happy (feeling really good, elated) 8. Pretty happy (spirits high, feeling good) 7. Mildly happy (feeling fairly good and somewhat cheerful) 6. Slightly happy (just a bit above neutral) 5. Neutral (not particularly happy or unhappy) 4. Slightly unhappy (just a bit below neutral) 3. Mildly unhappy (just a bit low) 2. Pretty unhappy (somewhat ‘blue’, spirits down) 1. Very unhappy (depressed, spirits very low) 0. Extremely unhappy (utterly depressed, completely down) Happiness Scale

WALT & WILF WALT Understand the term ‘wellbeing’ Identify the factors that affect our wellbeing and need to be working well to keep us happy WILF Examples about looking after own wellbeing Knowing the 5 factors that affect our wellbeing

What makes you happy? How would other people know you are happy? How do you know you are happy? How would other people know you are happy?

What is happiness? Happiness is how we feel when many things in our lives are working well. These things include our: brains bodies feelings relationships sense of purpose How can we make each of these things work well for us? What do you do or what can you do to make these things work well for you?

So what is wellbeing? LONGER HAPPIER HEALTHIER LIFE Wellbeing refers to a person’s state of happiness and health It includes all 5 things: brains, bodies, feelings, relationships, sense of purpose It is important to have good ‘wellbeing’ in order to live a LONGER HAPPIER HEALTHIER LIFE

There are five aspects of wellbeing……… On the next page, choose one image that you can relate to. Think about why you chose that image. What does it ‘say’ to you? In groups, discuss the image that you chose and why you chose that picture.

Which image do you relate to when you think of wellbeing and why? Wellbeing is looking after yourself and your feelings(emotional) Wellbeing is looking after your brain (cognitive) Wellbeing is looking after your relationships (social) Wellbeing is looking after your body (physical) Wellbeing is looking after your beliefs or having a purpose or goals (spiritual)

work well together to create What makes Happiness? These five aspects (Cognitive (looking after your brain), Social (looking after your relationships), Emotional (looking after your feelings), Physical (looking after your body) and Spiritual (looking after your beliefs) ALL work well together to create POSITIVE WELLBEING This results in us FEELING HAPPY

Final thought Riley- A New House K-6 Riley ​Us ​​Riley looks happy at the start of the clip? Why? ​Do all people feel happy about the same things? When Riley arrives at her new home her feelings change? How do we know? What things worry us? ​What does Riley do to feel happy again? ​What brings us happiness?

What next? Is it important to know what things make us feel happy? New activity. Next week we will be learning about: The difference between wellbeing and happiness. Ways we can maintain our wellbeing What is Happiness? Yrs K-6