Mental Health Introduction PSHE Lesson

For new 2020 Guidelines. A fully-resourced, detailed and differentiated 1 hour lesson introducing the concept of mental health and mental health issues. The lesson allows students to explore common reasons why we can all experience mental health issues sometimes, where we can go for further help if we need it, the importance of sharing our worries with trusted parents and guardians if we can and what some common mental health issues are (as well as how we can take steps to positively influence our own mental health). This is best suited for KS2 - but could be used with a Year 7 group too (especially a lower ability one). This lesson is editable, so easy to adapt for your own planning. It is well-differentiated with three-level challenges for each task, contains a variety of activities, an hour long PowerPoint, information pack, a clip with questions, card sort activity, clear measurable LOs, new key-term introductions and other activitie