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What is the key information to remember from this unit?
The main categories of needs:
The main categories of needs:
Learning Needs
Emotional Needs
Physical Needs Physical Needs Emotional Needs Learning Needs
By knowing our needs, we are in a better
We all have needs which must be met well for our brain to be at its best. There are three main categories of needs
position to prepare to meet them well. It also
means we can let others know what we
Needs linked
Needs linked Needs linked to the way we need to be at our best.

to our body to our feelings
think and learn.

By knowing our needs well, it is easier to
think through what might be at play when
we find things hard, or things go wrong.
We can summarise all of our physical and emotional needs as our ‘Big 5C Needs’

To feel To feel To feel To feel To feel a sense of control over what Being aware of our own and other people’s needs means

comfortable connected that I count capable is happeningto me and around me. we can negotiate so that life is
‘Good for me, good for you, good for everyone’.

How can I apply this information into how I support children and what I say and do?

We should teach children about We should share our own needs and the needs of others with children

the three main categories of needs before asking them to work out ways that everyone’s needs can be met so life is
that all humans have (physical,

emotional, learning) and the ‘Good for me, good for you, good for everyone’
di erent needs within each set.

By doing these things, we will help children to

We should give children a chance Have the

to think about their needs before Know their language to Consider the needs
they start a task so they can own needs communicate of others and become
prepare to be at their best so they can their own more emotionally

(Prep4Best). prepare ahead intelligent and socially
of time needs positively. competent.

UNIT 5 Brain Needs