I can describe and use ways to calm down.
Throughout the week, Year 6 have been discussing how they’re feeling and what they do when they’re not feeling calm. We all get worked up from time to time and we all calm ourselves down in different ways.
At home, discuss how you calm down and what strategies your child uses at home and at school. They might talk about some of the mindfulness techniques children have been taught or counting to ten, going for a walk or getting a glass of water.
This is a particularly important discussion for our Year 6s and it will be useful for them to recognise that they’ll be more and less calm depending on what’s happening in their lives at a given moment in time.