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I'm currently Head of Humanities, but I've also been head of department at a number of other schools, not to mention head of year. So I have a lot of high quality resources to share.
I take real pride in trying to ensure my resources are well presented, clear, easy to use and of course challenging and engaging for the students. They have taken me a lot of time to make, but hopefully they will save you a lot of time.
If you have any feedback then please review me!
Hi welcome to my shop!
I'm currently Head of Humanities, but I've also been head of department at a number of other schools, not to mention head of year. So I have a lot of high quality resources to share.
I take real pride in trying to ensure my resources are well presented, clear, easy to use and of course challenging and engaging for the students. They have taken me a lot of time to make, but hopefully they will save you a lot of time.
If you have any feedback then please review me!
This is a welcome back lesson or series of tutor time activities designed to help students cope with returning to school following lockdown.
-It is designed to encourage the students to reflect on their time away from school and how they have been feeling.
-It is also designed to get the students to consider the positives as well as the negatives from lockdown.
-It will help the students to address their concerns and anxieties about returning to school.
-It includes several activities, videos and tasks.
Overall - It will help the students to think about the impact of Covid-19 on individuals, their community and society as a whole.
This resource includes an outstanding Powerpoint with six individual tutor time mini-lessons that will help to introduce British Values to your pupils. It also features a well planned booklet that the pupils can complete to demonstrate their understanding of British Values.
This resource is highly versatile and is suitable for use with KS2, 3 or 4. The activities are fun, active, engaging and challenging, and will help to develop the pupils knowledge of what British Values are and why they are so important.
The PowerPoint is designed to be used with the attached booklet and contains a variety of activities including: key words, posters, poetry, general knowledge questions, links to highly relevant clips and critical thinking questions.
This has been hugely successful in my school at improving the pupils knowledge of British Values and improving their understanding of why they are so important. It comes highly recommended and has been shown to have a measurable effect on the pupils knowledge of British Values.
This resource can also be used in lessons such as PSHE as an activity or as a starter/plenary.
An interesting lesson that looks at the issue of bullying and gets the students to consider the causes of bullying, the effects of bullying and what we can do to help.
It focuses on a Christian persepective, but also uses empathy to consider the motivation behind the bullying, what the impact of bullying may have and introduces concepts such as the Golden Rule to help to prevent bullying,
This lesson was created for a GCSE RS course but can be easily adapted to other year groups or other subjects.
An interesting lesson that focuses on important values such as community, morality, ethics and empathy.
This lesson get the students to explore the Islamic teachings about the use of drugs and alcohol.
It uses different teachings from the Quran to explain why Muslims have the attitudes they do towards drugs and alcohol.
The students will also be asked to consider whether or not these views should still be held today, and if not what the counter arguments could be.
A good lesson to highlight student attitudes and misconceptions.
This lesson explains Chrsitan attitudes towards drugs and alcohol using Christian teachings, UK law and morality to explain what the attitudes are and how they developed.
This is a well resourced lesson that is suitable to be used in RE, citizehship or PSHE.
It can easily be adapted for different year groups, although it is Primarily aimed at GCSE students.
A fun and fascinating lessons what will get the students to think and ask good questions.
This is a fantastic twist on the flash cards idea that will prove to be a really useful revision tool in class.
INSTRUCTIONS: There are 28 cards with key words on one side and their definitions on the other side. The twist, no one has a matching key word and definition. So they need to call out their key word and everyone must look at their definitions to see if they have the definition to that key word. If they do, they flip their card over and read out their key word and so on until you go all around the class and back to the first person who read out.
This can get really competitive and forces the students to learn ALL the key words and definitions.
You can make up your own rules (personally I time it, and every time there is a mistake I make them swap cards and start again!).
This activity can easily be adapted to other schemes of work or even other subjects. I have used it for RE, History and Humanities.
A fantastic and useful resource.
This lesson looks at the various Christian attitudes towards homosexuality.
It investigates three different perspectives (Liberal Protestant, Evangelical Christian and Roman Catholic) and why they believe in this view.
This lesson can be used for KS3 or KS4.
There is a model answer included (this is based on the GCSE Edexcel SoW) but can easily adapted for another SoW.
Students then look at a flawed model answer and are asked to improve it.
They are also encouraged to consider their own views, why they hold those views and whether their views mirror one of the religious perspectives studied in the lesson.
Overall a fantastic lesson.
This powerpoint (with activities) can be adapted to your own personal use or planner design.
It is designed to help tutor and pupils to ensure they are using their homework/study planners correctly and effectively.
It also helps to promote consistency and efficiency and help to improve h/w recording across our school.
This was a problem at my school until I created this presentation, and now it is much much better!
This can be a one off lesson or can be part of a wider scheme of work looking at identity and belonging.
This lesson looks at the issue of identity and what makes you who you are.
It discusses three famous world leaders and looks at a case study of a young lady.
This is used to get the students to reflect on who they are and who they want to be,
A terrific lesson that encourages students to think about the nature of happiness and why it can be so difficult to achieve.
It looks at happiness in different situations, and how we can work at being happier ourselves.
An interesting and important lesson.
This lesson is most effective in year 7 or 8. Students are asked to write a letter to themselves to explain what they are like and what they want in the future.
Then in year 11 (or 13) they open the letter and see how much they have changed and grown since the wrote the letter.
A really fun and interesting lesson that shows how much the students grow while they are at school.
This lesson looks the media and how it can influence our perception of what is an ideal body.
It also looks at what our bodies are like and why there is no such thing as normal.
It helps to challenge stereotypes, promote diversity and allow students to have important conversations about the pressures young people feel when it comes to body image.
This lesson looks at the dangers of smoking through a variety of activities.
The lesson includes:
-Powerful anti-smoking ads
-What cigarettes contain
-What tobacco does to your body
-How to avoid getting addicted
The lesson can be extended to two or three lessons by getting the students to make an anti-smoking poster or presentation.
This lesson looks at how your feelings and emotions may change during puberty.
It looks at how students can cope with these changes.
Students will be encouraged to think about and discuss their feelings.
UPDATE - I have now included a powerpoint to guide the students through filling in the Transition Passport
This is a useful and fun welcome booklet aimed at students who are moving from Primary to Secondary School.
It contains a number of activities designed to help students to settle into a new school and get to know their class mates.
This booklet is also useful for:
-Tutor group activities in form time.
-PSHE lessons.
-Getting to know you activities.
-Summer school
-Breakfast club
-Homework activities
This lesson was made for an all girls school, but with a few adaptaions it could be used at a mixed school.
It covers all the essential information a young teenager needs to know about puberty and their changing bodies.
Some fun and engaging activities.
An interesting and informative lesson.
This lesson gets students to think about how to manage their money and why it is so important.
This is a usful lesson as students complain they don’t get enough life skills, and money management is a very important skill.
This lesson gets students to think about what being part of a community means and why they should try to be kind to other people.
This is a PSHE lesson but would work just as well in Citizenship or as part of a tutor time program.
It focuses on the idea of the Social contract (i.e. treat others as you want others to treat you) by looking at case studies of poor behaviour.
The students really enjoy this lesson.
An excellent lesson that gets the students to work as a teams to solve various problems.
Unsurprisingly this lesson involves a lot of teamwork with fun activities that get the students off their seats and competing with each other in groups.
The main feature of the lesson is a plane crash activity that is both challenging and fun.
The students LOVE this lesson!