Core Skills Analysis
Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE)
The child watched a film about emotions, engaging with a resource focused on feelings. The activity introduced emotions as a topic for attention and reflection. Through watching, the child had an opportunity to notice how emotions were presented in the film. This supported early emotional literacy by bringing feelings into a shared learning context.
English: Listening and Viewing
The child watched a film and followed its visual and spoken content. The activity offered practice in attending to a screen-based narrative and taking in information through audiovisual media. The film’s focus on emotions provided a context for noticing how ideas about feelings were communicated. This connected viewing with learning about a familiar aspect of human experience.
Tips
Tips After watching, invite the child to name or draw an emotion featured in the film and describe what helped them recognise it. Use simple face cards or a mirror to explore how expressions can communicate feelings, while noting that people may express emotions differently. Read a story together and pause to discuss how a character might feel and what clues suggest that feeling. To make the learning experiential, keep a feelings journal for a few days using words, colours, or drawings chosen by the child.
Book Recommendations
- In My Heart: A Book of Feelings by Jo Witek: A child-friendly exploration of feelings and the ways they can be experienced.
- The Feelings Book by Todd Parr: A bright, accessible picture book presenting a wide range of feelings in everyday language.
Learning Standards
- England National Curriculum — Relationships Education, statutory guidance (primary): The activity’s focus on emotions connects with learning to recognise and communicate feelings and to understand that feelings are part of relationships and wellbeing. This is a broad curriculum connection; no specific code number applies.
- English — Spoken Language, Years 1–6, statutory programme of study: Follow-up discussion about the film can support listening and responding to others. Relevant programme-of-study statements include listening and responding appropriately to adults and peers and asking relevant questions; these are not assigned individual code numbers in the National Curriculum.
Try This Next
- Draw an emotion from the film and add a label or colour that represents it.
- Make a three-question discussion card: What feeling did you notice? What clue helped you recognise it? What might help someone experiencing it?
- Create a simple feelings wheel with the child’s chosen words and pictures.