Year 1
Foundations
Naming basic feelings. Recognising them in the body. First tools for calming. Making a friend, being a friend.
The programme
A structured mental-health curriculum, Year 1 to Year 6.
Six evidence-based themes. Progressive year on year. Fully prepared lessons that require no planning, no specialist training, and no extra load on the teacher's week.
Year by year
Progressive, building each year on the last.
The same themes repeat and deepen. A Year 3 child returning to Emotional Literacy is not repeating Year 1, they are meeting the theme with more language and more experience.
Year 2
Expanding the vocabulary
More nuanced feelings, first sense of belonging. Simple regulation practices as classroom rituals.
Year 3
Building the toolkit
Understanding worry. Repairing friendships. Introducing identity: what makes me, me.
Year 4
Growing awareness
Neurodiversity, differences, empathy. Bigger feelings and how to sit with them. Sleep and rest as skills.
Year 5
Depth and complexity
Belonging and exclusion. Body image and self-esteem. When to ask for help, who to ask.
Year 6
Ready for transition
Change and endings. Preparing for secondary. Identity, resilience, and the language to carry forward.
Six themes
The threads that run through every year.
01
Emotional Literacy
The vocabulary to name feelings, from Year 1 up. A child who can name what they feel is a child who can work with it.
02
Regulation
Practical, age-appropriate ways to notice, pause, and settle. Not a poster on the wall, a habit built into every week.
03
Relationships
How to make friends, repair friendships, sit with disagreement, and know when a relationship isn't working.
04
Identity and Self-Esteem
Who am I, what am I good at, what matters to me. Built steadily from KS1 through to Year 6.
05
Wellbeing Habits
Sleep, movement, rest, screen time, food, time outside. The infrastructure of a mind that works.
06
Neurodiversity
How brains differ, why that is a strength, how to make classrooms and friendships work for everyone.
What is included
Everything a school needs to teach with confidence.
Expert teacher training
A five-minute video guide for the teacher before every lesson. Safeguarding notes, differentiation prompts, and the teaching points handled up front. Nobody walks in cold.
Presented by our clinical team, filmed in short sharp segments.
Child-facing video content
Warm, presenter-led videos your class will actually want to watch. Designed to hold attention without softening the substance.
Featuring Katy Ashworth, presenter and play therapist, alongside our clinicians.
Complete lesson resources
Teacher slides, child-facing slides, student workbooks, and classroom activities. No planning required. Everything reviewed by our clinical team before release.
Delivered as ready-to-use decks, print-ready workbooks, and downloadable activity packs.
The parent ecosystem
Free family access to the iMatta parent portal and the always-on parent support service. The conversation started at school continues at home.
Grounded in NHS and GOV.UK guidance. Every substantive reply cites a trusted source.
Evidence and alignment
Built to sit inside how schools already work.
Ofsted Personal Development framework
Programme structure maps to the framework's expectations for a coherent whole-school approach.
Statutory RSE 2020
Relationships and health education coverage embedded across the six themes, year on year.
DfE Mental Health guidance
Programme content and delivery model informed by Department for Education guidance for schools.
Clinician-approved sources
Every piece of parent-facing guidance draws from a clinician-approved allow-list of NHS and GOV.UK content.
Ready to see it in action?
Book a free consultation. We'll walk you through the curriculum, show you a lesson end to end, and answer everything your team needs to know.