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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 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.
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!
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 an interview lesson (so is an outstanding lesson)
It covers the issues of safety in the community (and at home) and gets students to investigate threats.
They need to come up with solutions/advice as to how to deal with threats.
They also need to write a poem/rap to demonstrate what they have learned.
This is an inspirational assembly that looks at the issue of what can we do to make a difference.
Some terrific video clips and some really good stories.
This can be done at any time of year, but it will almost certainly result in you getting a standing ovation!
One of my best assemblies. Highly recommended.
This lesson is to help the students to plan their revision by doing a twist on the idea of a post mortem.
While a post mortem is after the event, the pre-mortem does the same thing but before the event (or exam). So instead of thinking about why they failed, they will think about why they might fail and try to put into place a plan to prevent that happening!
A useful and thought provoking lesson.
This is a clever lesson where the students are introduced to human rights and have to imagine a word where the students take place in a market place activity to buy and sell human rights.
This was made for a citizenship lesson but could easily work in a geography lesson, or humanities or RS.
A fun but informative (and important) lesson,
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 excellent assembly looks at the issue of mental health and tries to strip away some of the taboos surrounding talking about mental health issues.
It includes the sad story of Robin Williams and looks at a advert from a Canadian charity focused on Mental Health.
A really useful and powerful assembly that can be held at any time of year (but is best in May during MHA Week)
Highly recommended.
This is an excellent assembly to get the students to think about the power of gossip and the importance of communicating effectively.
It uses several examples to make the point and features intro and exit music (and a clip featuring advice from Socrates)
An excellent one off assembly or an assembly to respond to gossip around school.
The assembly focuses on the importance of sleep.
The health, psychological, relationship, educational and even economic benefits.
It also has tips for sleeping better.
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This assembly was originally created to introduce Mental Health Awareness week (in May) but can be done at any time of year.
It covers:
-causes
-effects
-Consequences
-Prevention
-A case study (Robin Williams)
-Video with real world examples
This is designed to be an assembly that is designed to run for 10 to 15 min.
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The assembly introduces the students to Red Nose Day
-What it is
-When it takes place
-Why it started
-Who it is helping
-How the students can help
The assembly can be updated for Sports Relief or for Children in need.
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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.
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.
The assembly is aimed at sending the students off at the end of the school year thinking about the future.
It focuses on the passing of time and the idea of growth and achievement.
The students are encouraged to reflect on their time in school and their hope for the future.
It finishes by encouraging the audience to think about how to measure success and what it would look like for them.
It is also suitable for the end of calendar year.
Title: Say what you mean and mean what you say
This assembly focuses on getting the students to think about communicating clearly as words have consequences.
It does this by looking at bad translations, famous parables and an amusing story.
It culminates with a hilarious true(ish) story about a lost in translation discussion between a Swiss Priest and an English school teacher.
This is one of my most popular assemblies with the students discussing it long after it has been held and requesting a follow up for a long time afterwards!
This is a good assembly with a strong message.
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.
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.