A small set of starters (or plenaries) to actively promote mental wellness in your students. These small activities are designed to help prompt positivity and ownership of behaviours and attitudes with easy to do activities based on CBT techniques. These are easy to apply to your sessions, can be used as tutorials or to help overcome anxiety in the build up to assessments or exams. Feel free to elaborate upon or change depending on what your class needs are. Hope it helps. Please note that the TES preview can often distort the look of the resource and this is not a true reflection.

This session has been designed for school leavers (looking to move into apprenticeships) and for those who have been out of work for a number of years. The format of the session is very team / group based and covers different interview question types, how to prepare for an interview and STAR answer techniques. The activities are team based where learners are “playing for points” and the winners are announced at the end of the session. My sessions are short, however you can adapt the session to suit your own needs and cohorts. Be advised the ate TES preview does not always reflect the materials attached accurately. Hope it helps

This is a small starter which can be tagged onto any lesson you wish which looks into how thoughts, feelings and behavior are interlinked. This quick activity uses CBT methods to help manage negative thoughts by asking the students to look at a situation from a different angle and analyse how this impacts our feelings and our actions. This resource comes with a full a powerpoint and worksheet. It contains paired activities and a group discussion. This resource has been created to be adaptable, so please feel free to amend in a way which suits the style of your learners. Please keep in mind that the TES preview can sometimes distort the look of the material and this is not a true reflection. Hope it helps.

This session has been designed for school leavers and for those who have spent significant time out of work. It can be altered to suit your own needs and cohort. The session is designed to highlight the purpose of a CV, the Do’s and Don’t of what to include in a CV and to stress that CV’s are to be altered to suit the job applied for. The format of the lesson is very group/team based, with many activities being “played for points”, with the winners being revealed at the end of the session. A possible extension could be to have individuals develop their own CV, this is something I don’t have time allocated to in my session, but could be something you would like to do. Please be aware that the TES preview does not always accurately reflect the materials attached, hope it helps.

( Please note that the TES preview does distort the look of the resources and this is not always the full picture or a true reflection of the resource, therefore I have added some screenshots to help give you a clearer picture ) Mental health and well being are few of the pressures which are being identified and targeted as issues young people face today. To help support mental well being I started using positive thinking tasks and CBT techniques as small starter activities with my classes a year ago, and they have been incredibly successful in helping to get young people in a positive frame of mind, not just for class but for other aspects of life such as exam season and planning for the future. Incorporating these small 5 - 10 min tasks has been a big hit in my department and with principalship, therefore I have decided to share some of my most successful activities with you. These are selection of short, fun tasks to use with your class. These can be starters or incorporated into your main session. These activities cover a range of topics such as changing perspectives, managing positivity and gratefulness, tackling anxiety (a big issue among young people today) These are a mixture of team and individual tasks, giving students practice and positive tips they can use in their everyday life. This resource comes with a full powerpoint of 25 slides covering 6 over arching topics and 8 pages of supportive material / worksheets. Feel free to alter in any way which suits your sessions. Hope it helps.