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PSHE Ideas for Pupils With PMLD: Part 1

Turn abstract PSHE topics like feelings and personal care into sensory experiences that pupils with PMLD can take part in.

  • 54 minutes
  • 5 modules
  • 1 CPD hour
  • Certificate

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What you'll learn

  • Plan PSHE for pupils with PMLD around self-awareness, self-care and feelings
  • Use name songs and mirrors to build self-awareness and body awareness
  • Break personal care routines into steps with task analysis, agreed with families
  • Teach turn-taking through sensory pass the parcel and interactive approaches
  • Help pupils express and manage feelings with story massage, smells and squidges

About this course

A picture of a sad face means very little to most pupils with PMLD. Feelings, self-care and knowing who you are still matter hugely, so the question is how to teach them in a way that reaches each pupil.

This course, built on the PSHE planning framework for pupils with SEND, gives you plenty of ways in. You might sing a pupil's name to a familiar tune so it doesn't sound like a nag, or play sensory pass the parcel with the next activity's props hidden in the layers. Task analysis breaks toothbrushing into steps agreed with the family, and for harder feelings there's story massage, a worry monster to feed and squidgy stress-relief bags.

It's taught by an experienced PMLD teacher who now runs a sensory service, and every idea is shaped around the individual pupil and the people who know them best.

  • For early career teachers, middle leaders and 4 other roles. All phases.

5 modules

Open in order

  1. Introduction

    6 min

  2. Self awareness

    16 min

  3. Self-care, support and safety

    15 min

  4. Managing feelings

    16 min

  5. Wrap up

    4 min