Resilience & Harnessing Positive Emotions Primary
This foundational lesson introduces students to the concept of mental resilience and explores how positive emotions can be cultivated and used as a resource. Students learn what resilience means, why it matters, and how emotions — particularly positive ones — play a crucial role in building mental strength and wellbeing.
Learning Outcomes
Outcome 1:
Define mental resilience and explain its importance for wellbeing
Outcome 2:
Identify a range of positive emotions and their effects on the mind and body
Outcome 3:
Explore practical strategies for harnessing positive emotions in daily life
Outcome 4:
Begin to reflect on personal resilience and emotional patterns
What's included
A quick look at the classroom-ready resources that come with this lesson.
About the Organisation
Bounce Forward is a registered charity on a mission to transform how we think about mental health, shifting the narrative from deficit and crisis to strength, prevention, and psychological fitness. They create evidence-based programmes, curricula, and training that give young people, school staff, and the adults around children the knowledge, language, and daily habits to build genuine mental resilience. From whole-staff training to five-year school curricula, everything they do is practical, grounded in science, and designed to make a lasting difference not just in the moment, but across a lifetime.