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 is a fun lesson for Drama or English that gets the pupils to think about how to build an original character. It includes a number of activities and some fun drama games to get the students warmed up.

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.

This is a game based on the classic 1980s children’s TV show mallet’s mallet. It contains hundreds of words that can be used to start the game and blank cards so you can make more of your own. You will however have to make your own mallet! (I use a newspaper rolled up and taped!) If you are unsure how to play you can always look it up on youtube!

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.

This lesson gets students to consider what is important to them. It is a good test of their honesty and their integrity. A fun but interesting 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 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.

The aim of the assembly is to get the students to focus on mindfulness and the benefits of silence. This assembly is suitable at any time of year and with any year group. If you like this assembly please leave a review.

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.

An excellent lesson that considers fears and worries and what we can do about them. “we have nothing to fear but fear its self” The students will reflect on their fears and what they can do about them.

A good introduction lesson to PSHE that gets the students to think about and identify. A lot of students don’t really understand what PSHE is or why it matters, this lesson is designed to explain to them why we study it at school. It is a good intro lesson to the course or a stand alone lesson to remind students of why it is such an important lesson to study.

The assembly looks at the issue of injustice and how we can respond to it through the case study of Maya Angelou. It tells the story of Maya Angelou and her life as an inspiration to the students. If you like this assembly please leave a review.

This lesson was created for use in a KS3 Buddhism unit but could easily work in any RS unit of work, or indeed a PSHE unit. It tells the story of a young lady at an airport who jumps to the wrong conclusion when she doesn’t have all the facts. It’s told through a series of pictures and is a beautiful was to reinforce the message that a parable can be a highly effective way of getting across an important message. The pupils then have to create their own parables (there is a guide and some ideas to help them). This lesson can easily be extended to two or three lessons with extension activities (such as turning it into a role play, or making it a cartoon, or a presentation). A fun, fascinating and fantastic lesson.

This is a terrific lesson that introduces the Amish Faith (as featured in films like ‘Witness’, and TV shows like ‘The Devil’s Playground’ and even ‘Orange is the new Black’) It includes ‘Home or Away’ group activity where the students have to become experts and then teach one another about one aspect of Amish Culture. The lesson has additional activities such as: source analysis, creative drawing, debate and ultimately a discussion of the merits and drawbacks of living like the Amish do. An interesting and powerful lesson that teaches about a fascinating but little understood faith.

This is a brilliant lesson that helps the students to understand what life was like for both the rich and poor in London during the Industrial Revolution. It focuses on East London and what the conditions were like for the poor. The lesson involved students interviewing one another (half have roleplay sheets) to find out what problems faced the working class in Bethnal Green. The students then write a report to the government to make recommendations as to how they would improve East London. The lesson involved individual work, group work, role play, and literacy tasks. A fun, informative lesson that the students will get a lot out of.

A really fun lesson to introduce students to the idea of historical anachronisms (wrong time or wrong place in history). It uses both drawings and phots to demonstrate examples of anachronisms and asks the students to use their understanding and empathy to create their own stories full of anachronisms. A fun and useful lesson,

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 lessons looks at the Greater and Lesser Jihad and explores the Muslim attitude to war. The pupils really enjoyed this lesson and felt that they understood this topic much more clearly after this lesson. It helps pupils to understand many of the misconceptions surrounding Jihad, and Islam in general and helps them to understand the positive aspects of Islamic attitdues to violence and war. An interesting and fun lesson that challenges what the pupils may have previously believed. Originally created for KS4 RS, it can easily be adapted for KS3 or KS5.