How Emotions Feel in Your Body
Understand the connection between emotions and the body — recognising physical signals like butterflies in the stomach (nervous), clenched fists (angry), racing heart (scared or excited), and tight shoulders (stressed)
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Before a school performance or sports day, can your child notice and tell you about the physical feelings in their body — like butterflies in their tummy — and connect them to being nervous or excited?
Understand the connection between emotions and the body — recognising physical signals like butterflies in the stomach (nervous), clenched fists (angry), racing heart (scared or excited), and tight shoulders (stressed)
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Check understanding
- Name at least three body sensations and match them to the emotions they signal
- Notice a physical feeling in their own body and identify the emotion behind it
- Explain why the body reacts physically when we have strong emotions
“Before a school performance or sports day, can your child notice and tell you about the physical feelings in their body — like butterflies in their tummy — and connect them to being nervous or excited?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Personal & Social Development
- Domain
- Emotional Literacy
- Age range
- Ages 7–9
Standards