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💛 Building resilience, wellbeing and positive reflection 💛
Healthy Relationships - Valentine's Day and Beyond
This lesson helps students explore the ups and downs of relationships, with a focus on recognising what makes a healthy, supportive romance and spotting the warning signs of an unhealthy or toxic one. It’s designed to be flexible so you can adjust it for the age and level of your class, and most slides leave plenty of space for discussion and reflection.
The aim is for students to understand these patterns not just for themselves, but also so they can look out for their friends.
Resilience and Bouncing Back from Failure
Students will explore the concept of resilience and learn the importance of treating themselves kindly after experiencing failure. Through a combination of text slides, interactive quizzes, and a short video on the psychology of failure, they will see how their self-talk can influence their ability to bounce back.
The lesson also encourages reflection on personal coping strategies and provides practical ways to grow a resilient mindset. It is suitable for Key Stages 3–5 and can be delivered in about 10 minutes.
Children's Mental Health Week
This lesson gives students the opportunity to think about their own mental health and what it means to look after themselves. Through discussion, short activities, and reflection, they will begin to recognise the importance of wellbeing in everyday life.
You may wish to link the content to your school’s mental wellbeing policies and remind students of the support available to them, including trusted adults and local or national support services. This helps reinforce that support is always accessible and that asking for help is a positive step.
🚀 Growing skills, confidence, and academic resilience 🚀
Reflect, Learn, and Grow
This lesson helps learners think about their mock exam results in a positive and productive way.
Students explore how to reflect on their performance, identify strengths and areas to improve, and turn feedback into clear steps for growth. By focusing on reflection and goal-setting, learners build confidence and practical strategies to do even better next time.
Time Management - Overcoming Procrastination
This lesson helps students understand why procrastination happens and introduces a simple technique to manage tasks more effectively. Learners explore how prioritising their workload can reduce stress and make daily responsibilities feel more manageable.
With 11 slides featuring quizzes and concise prompts, the session keeps students engaged while offering practical strategies they can put into practice straight away.
Revision for Success
Let’s help learners discover simple, practical revision techniques that make starting out feel much less overwhelming.
Perfect for mentoring sessions, tutor time, or a focused lesson in your subject, the slides are fully adaptable. There’s even a blank themed slide at the end so you can add your own tips, examples, or visuals: to you make the session personal, encouraging, and confidence-boosting for every student.
🌎 Essential learning for today's world 🌍
Current events quiz
How do you bring the news into your classroom in a way that’s interactive and educational? Every week, we publish a free quiz with questions about current events. Teachers and students join in, often using it as a lively way to wrap up the week.
💡 Ideas for using the quiz
- Wrap up the week with a playful competition in class.
- Encourage conversations about current events.
- Use it as a fun homework activity.
- Turn it into a pub-style quiz for your students.
Be smart with smartphones
How many hours do young people spend on their phones each day? And are we always aware of what they’re doing, seeing, and sharing online?
This ready-to-teach lesson helps students reflect on the benefits and risks of smartphone use. While you can hardly avoid living in a world where most people spend several hours a day on their smartphones, you can help them explore both the positives and the dangers. Use this lesson to start meaningful conversations on one of today’s most important topics.
How to spot fake news
Welcome to this lesson on Media Literacy. Inside, you’ll find a range of interactive slides designed to engage students with this important topic. The lesson is fully editable, so you can adapt the content to suit your class. A copy of the fake news article about Bonfire Night is included, which you can also use as a printed handout for group work.
The lesson offers a variety of tasks and, while the subject matter is serious, a touch of satire is used to highlight important messages.
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