PSHE, Citizenship, RE, SMSC Lessons + Teaching Resources
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www.ecpublishing.co.uk We are the market leaders in PSHE + RSE resources, with over 14 million downloads of our lessons worldwide and over 5500 five star reviews. Established in 2015, our team of consultants and teachers has written for The Bank of England, The Children's Commissioner, The CCRC, The British Legion and many other UK charities and institutions. We love what we do and we aim to be highest quality and best value for money out there. Find us at www.ecpublishing.co.uk.
1 hour, fully resourced Internet Safety / PSHCE lesson which focuses on how we can recognise cyber crime, phishing, fraud and online scams. The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. It is also useful for ICT as an introduction to the topic, or as a Tutor Time session (over a week).
The pack includes a 1 hour long PowerPoint, differentiated challenge activities, worksheets, clips and literacy focus tasks. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow.
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Attraction and Crushes PSHE Lesson - 1 hour - 90 min, fully resourced PSHE lesson suitable for upper KS2 or lower KS3 all about different types of attraction and what it means to have a crush. The lesson is LGBTQ+ friendly and includes a comprehensive introduction to new terminology students may not have heard of before . The lesson emphasises the fact that people can experience attraction to different genders, have different sexualities and that some people just may not feel anything but platonic attraction. Students will examine what it feels like to have a ‘crush’ and how people may behave differently when experiencing one. All content has been written to cover the new 2020 PSHE Association Guidelines.
The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. It is designed to be ‘no prep’, so you can just pick it up and use it, although it is still adaptable should you wish to.
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk
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2 HOUR lesson all about knife crime, who is particularly vulnerable to become involved and why and the measures the UK is taking to keep young people safe. Students will investigate the link with wider gang violence and influence, and the pressure put on gang members to commit illegal activities. They will also examine the consequences of such illega, on victims and perpetrators as well as the lasting effect on families and communities. They will explore personal stories from those who turned their lives around, but still live with many regrets of ever getting involved in the first place.
This has been created to best suit KS3 but is suitable for KS4 too and is entirely editable. It covers the DfE and PSHE Association guidance for 2020-24 and will last you two hours.
Activities are scaffolded, there is a detailed and colourful PowerPoint, clip tasks, partnered tasks, active tasks, worksheets, literacy tasks, information pack, signposting to further help agencies and charities, clear outcomes and also progress measurers. Includes optional assessment sheet.
It is fully editable, engaging and very easy to follow.
Check out the EC Publishing website for full, affordable PSHE, Citizenship and RE Packages for all year groups including the new 2024 Complete PSHE Package. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, The British Legion, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
Check out our PSHE Packages on Tes here:
Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE
Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE
Complete KS5 PSHE and RSE
One Year of Citizenship and British Values
Complete KS3 RE
Complete Careers and Employability
AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack
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Updated - Now 6 hours of fully resourced lesson packs which could be used for PSHE or Tutor Time (they apply to every subject), to equip students with the best study skills and tools to revise successfully.
All lesson packs are complete with a detailed PowerPoint, accompanying differentiated worksheets, clip links with questions, plenaries, clear LOs and starters. All are well differentiated to three levels throughout to enable clear evidence of progress for all students.
1: Revision skills - the best revision skills and how to implement them in a variety of subjects (2 hours)
2. How can we make the best of our short-term and long term memories? Getting the most out of our brains when it comes to revising for exams.
3. What is plagiarism? How can we avoid it and what are the consequences for this in the wider world?
4. How can we make ourselves persevere when all we want to do is procrastinate? How to beat the procrastination blues and re-focus again and again.
5. How can we minimise stress levels and improve our exam performance?
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New 2024 edition - a detailed, differentiated and editable PSHE lesson which meets all the latest 2020-2024 PSHE guidelines (and the latest draft ones too) and will last you an hour. The lesson introduces the concept of race and racism, with a focus on racism in the UK. Suitable for KS3/KS4 and taken from the new EC Publishing Complete PSHE Package, found at the EC Publishing website.
Activities have three-level challenges for each task, there is a detailed and colourful PowerPoint, an information pack, clip tasks with questions, source pack, lesson plan, clear measurable LOs and also literacy and partnered activities.
It is fully editable, engaging and very easy to follow.
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, The British Legion, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
Please visit my Tes store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EC_Resources for everything PSHE, RSE, RE and Citizenship.
We still offer a free lesson of your choice for each time you leave a review! Just email info@ecpublishing.co.uk
Check out our PSHE Packages on Tes here:
Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE
Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE
Complete KS5 PSHE and RSE
One Year of Citizenship and British Values
Complete KS3 RE
Complete Careers and Employability
AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack
Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 10,000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.
New 2023-24 online safety lesson - detailed PSHE lesson all about online trolls, the different types, their motivations and how we can help combat this type of cyberbullying by not being a bystander. A fun and editable lesson which includes a variety of creative, analysis, case-studies, literacy and clip tasks. Created for KS3 and easy to adapt.
Check out the EC Publishing website for full, affordable PSHE, Citizenship and RE Packages for all year groups including the new 2024 Complete PSHE Package. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children's Commissioner, The Bank of England, The British Legion, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources
Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :)
Or you can check out some of our most popular PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources below:
Mental Health PSHE Bundle
1 Whole Year of PSHE Resources
British Values Citizenship Bundle
Careers, Employment and Enterprise Bundle
Islam Bundle
Sex and Relationships EducationOnline Safety
Introduction to UK Parliament lessons - 2x 1 hour Citizenship lessons all about Parliament and Law Making. Students will learn all about the Houses of Parliament, the Commons, the Lords and the different positions within, as well as how it operates. They will also discover how laws are made, how amendments are added and how there can be a ‘ping-pong’ effect from house to house before a new Act is granted the Royal Assent.
Included:
2 x 1 hour PowerPoints, detailed and well differentiated tasks, clip links with questions, starter handout and worksheets . All editable and suitable for KS3/4 easily adapted for GCSE Citizenship.
Variety of different level tasks for MA,LA or Core.
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ISLAM Religious Education lessons: belief, practices, teachings, everything. More just added, so now 12 full 1 hour lessons and one assessment. This includes 12 x 1 hour PowerPoints, dozens of worksheets, all fully differentiated, clip links, activities, literacy focus tasks - everything you need for a full teaching unit.
Perfect for students who don’t have much background info on the religion (with plenty to challenge those who do) - most suitable for KS3/4 (but amendable and fully differentiated). There is also an optional scheme of work that you can use. All off these lessons are taken from the Complete Year 7 and 8 RE Package.
Theres about 20 hours worth of planning here - I use all these lessons myself as Head of RE.
Check out the EC Publishing website for full, affordable PSHE, Citizenship and RE Packages for all year groups. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk
Many more inexpensive and free resources at my shop:
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Mental Health PSHE Bundle
1 Whole Year of PSHE Resources
British Values Citizenship Bundle
Careers, Employment and Enterprise Bundle
Islam Bundle
Sex and Relationships Education
GCSE CITIZENSHIP 9-1
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A detailed, engaging and well-differentiated lesson to encourage critical thinking (lasting 1-2 hours), focused on the growth of Fake News and ‘alternative facts’. These resources teach students how we must always use critical thinking skills when studying media material.
Included: 1 - 2 hour PowerPoint, worksheets, clips, alternative facts reading comprehension, well differentiated, KS3/ KS4. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes) and are designed to last one hour each.
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Or you can check out some of our most popular PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources below:
Mental Health PSHE Bundle
1 Whole Year of PSHE Resources
British Values Citizenship Bundle
Careers, Employment and Enterprise Bundle
Islam Bundle
Sex and Relationships Education
GCSE CITIZENSHIP 9-1
To help combat misogyny + Andrew Tate attitudes - a PSHE lesson with engaging and well differentiated activities all about gender prejudice and the sexism still experienced by many on a daily basis everyday life and the workplace. It includes a one hour PowerPoint, worksheets, clips and engaging tasks all differentiated to three levels and aimed at KS3/4.
These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes) and are designed to last one hour each.
Check out the EC Publishing website for full, affordable PSHE, Citizenship and RE Packages for all year groups including the new 2024 Complete PSHE Package. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk
You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources
Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :)
Or you can check out some of our most popular PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources below:
Mental Health PSHE Bundle
1 Whole Year of PSHE Resources
British Values Citizenship Bundle
Careers, Employment and Enterprise Bundle
Islam Bundle
Sex and Relationships Education
**Fast fashion - how are our clothing choices affecting the environment? **
A detailed, editable 1 hour lesson all about the fast fashion industry and the reasons why we need to consume and dispose of clothing responsibly.
Created to fit an ‘adaptive teaching style’ the lesson is influenced by Rosenshine’s principles of instruction, and promotes both cognitive and metacognitive strategies.
In this lesson, the students will discuss the global impact of the fast fashion industry and identify examples of sustainable and unstainable clothing materials.
We will describe the environmental impact of our consumption of low-cost fashion and find out what happens to our donated and unwanted clothing.
The lesson is ideally suited to students in UKS2 or younger students in KS3.
The resources are fully editable, and therefore easy to amend should you wish to use the resources with other year groups. The lesson is fully-scaffolded, contains a variety of activities, an hour long PowerPoint, contains a video clip with accompanying questions, and has clear measurable outcomes and success criteria.
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk
Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 8000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.
UPDATED 2024 - 6 x fully resourced, highly-rated lesson packs with a focus on the 2024 General Election, political parties and leaders, voting and democracy. All 6 lesson packs are complete with at least one hour-long PowerPoint, accompanying differentiated worksheets, clip links with questions, plenaries, clear LOs and starters. All are well differentiated to three levels throughout to enable clear evidence of progress for all students.
Also includes a political leanings quiz for students to see who they might vote for in the 2024 general election.
These lessons have been designed to meet the Citizenship Teacher Associations guidance to help create a school which adheres to Ofsted's 'promoting British Values' SMSC policies. It also helps you meet all the national Citizenship curriculum criteria for KS3 / KS4.
These resources have been highly-rated individually by TES users, follow the same consistent format and are easy to follow.
There is zero extra work required. You can just have a quick look at them and teach - instructions are very clear as you go along.
I use all of these myself as a head of Citizenship, SMSC and PSHE and I really hope you find them excellent value. I've put literally weeks of time into this to make these lessons top quality for my own school team.
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A mental health awareness assembly with a focus on how to care for and manage your mental health. It lasts 15-20 mins (inc short clip) and explores why mental health issues are so prevalent in young people today, what the most common conditions are, the symptoms and causes and finally where and how you can access help. The slides shown are just a sample as the whole assembly follows a narrative revisiting the students on the cover slide.
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Or you can check out some of our most popular PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources below:
Mental Health PSHE Bundle
1 Whole Year of PSHE Resources
British Values Citizenship Bundle
Careers, Employment and Enterprise Bundle
Islam Bundle
Sex and Relationships Education
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NEW PSHE lesson all about what communities are, why they are beneficial to us, how our mental health improves when we become involved in off-line communities and how our mental health suffers when we lose contact with our off-line communities.
Students will investigate different types of communities, how they develop, how they overlap and how they can lend support in time of need. They will also examine the phenomenon of the hikikomoris of Japan, individuals who choose to actively cut themselves off from all off-line communities, and explore the impact this has on their mental health.
This has been written to cover the 2020-24 PSHE guidance on the importance of communities. The lesson will last you at least one hour and is best suited to upper KS3 or KS4.
There are a variety of tasks, from creative to literacy, to clip and analysis. Everything is editable and ready to go.
This lesson is taken from the new EC Publishing 2024 Complete Secondary Package which can be found at the EC Publishing website.
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, The British Legion, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
You can visit our website at EC Publishing for further discounts, complete school packages and much more, and can email us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk
Check out our PSHE Packages on Tes here:
Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE
Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE
Complete KS5 PSHE and RSE
One Year of Citizenship and British Values
Complete KS3 RE
Complete Careers and Employability
AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack
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Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 12,000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.
A one hour lesson focusing on the health and behavioural problems caused by energy drinks. This one hour PSHE lesson is designed to make students think twice about consuming these before school and to make them aware of the serious long term health consequences of consuming sugary, caffeinated drinks in large quantities.
This pack includes a PowerPoint, worksheets, clips, all well differentiated.
Check out the EC Publishing website for full, affordable PSHE, Citizenship and RE Packages for all year groups including the new 2024 Complete PSHE Package. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk
These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes).
You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources
Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :)
4 hours’ worth of lessons introducing Hinduism - perfect for KS3. This pack has been created for Year 8 although could be tweaked for other KS3 groups. It can be used with students who know very little about Hinduism to begin with.
Each lesson contains a detailed PowerPoint and worksheets, well-differentiated with three-level challenges for each task, a variety of activities, information packs, clips with differentiated questions, clear measurable LOs, new key-term introductions and other activities.
The pack is fully editable, engaging and very easy to follow.
Lessons included:
Introduction to Hinduism
Hinduism and holy texts - Vedas and Rig Veda
Hinduism and Gods - Polytheism, Monotheism and Henotheism
BONUS LESSON: Reincarnation
Free assessment (Hinduism and Buddhism assessment)
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
Check out our RE and PSHE Packages here:
Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE
Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE
One Year of KS5 PSHE and RSE
One Year of Citizenship and British Values
Complete Year 7 and 8 RE
Complete Careers and Employability
AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack
Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 8000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.
A 20 page activity pack for Tutor Time that can be given to students to get on with independently. This is great for when you have a bit of form admin to do and you just need your tutor group to get on with productive tasks quietly for a while.
Each task should last 25- 30 minutes and there are 20 pages of tasks.
The activity booklet covers aspects of:
British Values (law, fundamental values, politics, voting, migration)
SMSC actvities (mindfulness, appreciation)
PSHE (personal identity, financial literacy, future aspirations, happiness)
Life Skills (problem solving)
Whole School Literacy
Please note - the images that download with this are preview files. The booklet is in the ZIP file :)
This is part of a much larger Tutor Time Pack, available here:
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One hour, fully resourced Careers lesson with a focus on Health and Safety in the workplace. Students will read information sheets and answer differentiated clip questions before working through different case studies, identifying hazards and possible consequences, as well as if the Health and Safety At Work Act has been broken.
This resource pack includes an hour long PowerPoint with accompanying worksheets, well differentiated activities, literacy focus tasks, clip tasks with three-way differentiated questions, case study activities and information sheets.
The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. It is useful for PSHE, Careers, Citizenship or Tutor Time and has been designed to help meet the new GATSBY criteria. As with all our lessons, you don’t need any prior knowledge as all the information is included - you can just pick up and teach it.
Check out the EC Publishing website for full, affordable PSHE, Citizenship and RE Packages for all year groups including the new 2024 Complete PSHE Package. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk
You can also find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: MORE PSHE RESOURCES
2 HOURS, fully resourced PSHE lesson all about role models, current social media influencers and the positive and negative influence they can have. The lesson follows a girl called Shelly, who wants to look like her idols, the Kardashians, before investigating more thoroughly the link between role models and self-esteem. A large part of the lesson investigates the lack of positive role models for young people in the media and sets students the challenge of establishing what makes a positive role model, before researching whether they can find celebs and public figures that meet their criteria.
This resource pack includes a 2 hour long PowerPoint with accompanying worksheets, well differentiated activities, literacy focus tasks, clip tasks with three-way differentiated questions and information sheets.
The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. It is useful for PSHE, Citizenship or Tutor Time. As with all our lessons, you don’t need any prior knowledge as all the information is included - you can just pick up and teach it.
Check out the EC Publishing website for full, affordable PSHE, Citizenship and RE Packages for all year groups including the new 2024 Complete PSHE Package. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk
You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: MORE PSHE RESOURCES
Rights and responsibilities KS2 or Lower KS3 PSHE Lesson. A one hour-long, very detailed, fully resourced PSHE lesson.
In this lesson, the students will explore the concept of rights. We will discuss a series of examples including the right to equality, freedom, free speech and having our basic human needs met. We will reflect on the relationship between rights and responsibilities and discuss the reasons why we have rights in the first place. The lesson includes a jigsaw activity, where the students match rights to a corresponding responsibility. The lesson also includes an information sheet, a video clip task, a main task that focuses on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and a Venn diagram plenary activity.
Created to fit the new DfE and PSHE Association statutory 2020 /21 guidelines, the lesson includes a detailed PowerPoint, all editable with accompanying tasks and worksheets.
The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. It is designed to be ‘no prep’, so you can just pick it up and use it, although it is still adaptable should you wish to.
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk
Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 8000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.