RSHE Mental wellbeing Recognising concerns Subtle easily hidden

RSHE - Mental wellbeing - Recognising concerns Subtle (easily hidden) signs of mental wellbeing concerns Ms Joanna Shaw 1

SLEEP SCENARIOS ACTIVITY Read through the scenarios on the next slide and answer the following questions for each one: 1. What habits does each character have that might be preventing them from getting good quality sleep? 2. What might the consequences be for each of them by not getting good quality sleep? 3. What could each character change (or do differently) to help them get better quality sleep? 2

Sleep scenarios r Aisha finds it really difficult to wake up in the morning so argues with her parents most mornings and gets blamed for making everyone late. She feels tired all the time and often gets into trouble for being late to school, too. She drinks a caffeine drink on the way into school to help her wake up and usually has three or four more during the day. She sometimes falls asleep during lessons, and most days she has a nap when she gets home from school, between about 4. 30 pm and 6 pm. The only time she feels energetic or awake is in the evening, and doesn’t feel tired when she tries to go to bed! At the weekend she usually has a lie in until 1 pm to catch up on sleep, but stays up late with friends on Friday and Saturday nights. 3 1: 2: 3:

Sleep scenarios r Mohammed has to travel further to get to school than most students. To make it on time, he gets up at 6. 30 am. He is finding this really hard, and feels very tired. This is made even worse because Mohammed is quite worried about school and is quite disorganised. He’s been told off and had detention twice because he forgot his equipment. He often lies in bed running through in his mind all the things he needs to pack in his school bag for the next day. He sometimes wakes up in the night worried that he is going to get in trouble again. 4 1: 2: 3:

Sleep scenarios r Zoya has a really busy after school schedule. She finishes school at 3. 30 pm, and stays behind for different school clubs most days, until 4. 30 pm. She then she does a paper-round until 7 pm before she goes to gymnastics training three times a week (between 7. 30 and 9 pm). When she gets back home she needs to do her homework, shower, wash her hair and so doesn’t usually eat dinner until about 9. 30 or 10 pm. She relaxes by watching TV or chatting on social media before falling asleep around midnight. She is always tired when her alarm goes off at 7 am to get ready for school, and usually snoozes it for at least half an hour. 5 1: 2: 3:

Sleep scenarios r John got his first smartphone for his 13 th birthday. He has started using his mobile phone as an alarm clock, so sleeps with it on his bedside table. He uses it for an hour or so before he goes to bed, and sometimes that means he stays up later than he meant to. His phone often goes off during the night and it is hard to resist checking the notifications, but he only looks at it for a second or to in case it’s important. He thinks it wrong that some of his friends are still posting at 2 or 3 am, but he doesn’t think that using his phone in this way affects his sleep. Sometimes, he listens to music or a Youtube clips to help him fall asleep, and checking his phone is the first thing he does when he wakes up. 6 1: 2: 3: