Body image is the focus of this half term’s Living and Learning lessons.
Today, we began our sessions by reading a newspaper report encouraging boys to talk about body image and the effect that it can have on thier mental health and well being.
There is growing evidence that boys do care deeply about how they look, and it can be something that makes them feel bad about themselves.
As a class, we discussed factors that may influence how a person feels about their body. Advertisements, media, wanting to ‘fit in’, peer pressure, inclusion and popularity were just some ideas we came up with.
The children were very mature throughout this lesson and asked some interesting questions.
We thought about the parts of our bodies that we couldn’t change and why some people feel they need to alter thier image.
