Page 7 - SECTION B PART 4a Brain Best Needs

Model No.8: Our Three Brain Needs

A model to help children understand their needs.

Our ‘Body Needs’: needs for our
body to feels ok - our physical

needs:

▪ Food
▪ Water
▪ Warmth

▪ Sleep
▪ Pain free
▪ The right amount
of sound, light, Our ‘Learning Needs ’

touch, smell, taste – the needs we have to
& movement.
learn at our best:

E.g. the right:
Our ‘Feeling Needs’: the needs we have to ▪ Speed of learning
feel emotionally ok: ▪ Amount of information

and instructions
▪ Feeling noticed, liked and valued.
▪ Feeling in control of what is happening to us ▪ Type of learning to keep
our interest
▪ Knowing what to expect and feeling certain ▪ Sort and length of tasks to
▪ Knowing what is expected of us keep our attention
▪ Feeling we can do a good job of the task we have
been given or chosen.