Helpful Weblinks!
Calm Down Yoga for Angry (primarysite-prod-sorted.s3.amazonaws.com)
Coping with stress | Childline
Building confidence and self-esteem | Childline
Simple Rainbow Calm Down Jars (lemonlimeadventures.com)
PSHE EYFS / KS1: Feeling Better - Happy - BBC Teach
Awesome Apps!
Calm Heart (part of STEM)
help you to resist or manage the urge to self-harm and can help to reduce anxiety
Mind Shift
Mind Shift stresses the importance of changing how you think about anxiety. Think of this app as the cheerleader in your pocket, encouraging you to take charge of your life, ride out intense emotions, and face challenging situations.
Clear Fear (part of STEM)
Clear Fear is a free app to help children and young people manage the symptoms of anxiety.
Happify
The Happify app is your fast-track to a good mood. Try various engaging games, activity suggestions, gratitude prompts and more to train your brain as if it were a muscle, to overcome negative thoughts.
Combined Minds (part of STEM)
Combined Minds is a free app to help families and friends provide mental health support.
What’s Up
Use the positive and negative habit tracker to maintain your good habits.
You could also try
Relaxation- Controlled breathing and relaxing your muscles
- Rectangular Breathing – using windows, doors, picture etc. Breathe in and out deeply as your eyes follow the rectangle.
- Box Breathing – breathe in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4.7-11
- Breathing – in for 7, out for 11, or as long as you can manage. The outbreath is your friend when stressed, or not feeling stressed. It brings oxygen to your heart and brain, which we need more than ever when under pressure.
- Mindfulness Colouring – colouring a picture / number colouring book. For example : - Mindfulness Colouring Images (Animals) | Teaching Ideas
Thinking about something good- Example: sit and draw a picture about a time when you were on holiday. What were you doing? What could you see? Who were you with? What were you wearing? What could you smell?
Leaving a Situation - Leaving the room and coming back later
Talking to Someone - Talking to someone you trust
Play thinking games - Practice mental games to shift your attention (2-3 minutes): Alphabet games (naming someone famous for each pair of initials: AB, BC, CD Category games naming as many categories within 2 minutes (vegetables, flavour of ice creams etc.).Memory games naming all the teachers in the school Rhyming games; listing as many rhyming words within 2 minutes.