🤝 Personal & Social Development · Emotional Literacy
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)
Typical age: 7–9 years
“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?”
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