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.
5 x fully resourced, highly-rated lessons fo developing Social Skills in children and young teens. All 5x lesson packs (in 4 downloads) 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.
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.
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MORE ADDED! Now 20 hours of lessons (60+ resources) with a focus on building workplace skills in teenagers or young adults.
From timekeeping to CV Writing, job interview techniques to understanding payslips - this really is everything you need to teach about workplace skills.
This pack includes 20x Powerpoints, 60+ worksheets, clips, AFL activities - everything you need. All lessons are tried and tested and very well differentiated. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All the resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes).
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This is half term one of the EC Resources Complete Year 8 PSHE Pack. This bundle includes 7 hours’ worth of lessons. It also includes a detailed scheme of work and an assessment pack, full of optional assessment ideas.
All of the lesson packs are complete with detailed, well-differentiated and easy to follow PowerPoints, accompanying differentiated worksheets, information sheets, clip links with questions, plenaries, clear LOs, starters and engaging activities. They also have colour coded three-level challenges throughout, so students can choose different levels of challenge in every activity and you can easily measure progress throughout the lesson. Everything is editable too.
The pack has been mapped to the PSHE Association’s guidelines and coding for the new Statutory 2020 PSHE Curriculum (as detailed in the scheme of work) but over the year includes much more than the statutory requirements, including both British Values, Citizenship and Careers too. The Complete Year 8 Pack can be found here:
The Complete Year 8 Pack is part of the Complete KS3 Pack on the EC Publishing website.
A full, Secondary Complete KS3 + KS4 Pack which includes 179 hours of PSHE lessons and schemes of work is also available at our website.
Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are a small team of teachers and PSHE Consultants who have created curriculums for schools across the country and have worked to produce resources for The Children’s Commissioner, The Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov), MACS Charity, LikeToBe Careers and many other charities and UK institutions. We are Tes Award nominees for English and have had over 2 million downloads of our PSHE and Citizenship resources worldwide.
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Drop Down Day Pack - A set of 6 lessons to cover a Drop Down Day (6 hours) introducing Citizenship to KS3.
The Drop Down Day was put together for Year 7 originally, but all the resources are editable and well-differentiated so it could be used with any year group KS4 / KS3 with a tweak or so.
The Drop Down Day covers an introduction to Citizenship, rights + responsibilities, Human Rights and focusing on how we can be active and positive citizens both in the UK and for the rest of the world.
All these individual lessons have been rated very highly by Tes users and are tried and tested in my own department.
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Drop Down Day Pack - A set of 5 lessons to cover a Drop Down Day (5-6 hours total) introducing British Values to KS3 and KS4
The Drop Down Day was put together for Year 8 originally, but all the resources are editable and well-differentiated so it could be used with any year group KS4 / KS3 with a tweak or so.
The Drop Down Day covers an introduction to British Democracy, how laws are made, British Identity, British Liberties, a history of British Democracy and Tolerance in modern Britain.
All these individual lessons have been rated very highly by Tes users and are tried and tested in my own department.
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All the classroom tools you need to manage your classes! From amendable AFL and Dirt Time materials to target setting, behaviour management and rewards, seating plans and laying down your classroom rules.
All these classroom tools can be used in any subject and many are particularly useful for Tutor Time too.
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A 7 hour KS3 ‘Introduction to Citizenship’ Unit. The unit covers what exactly citizenship is, how our government system works in the UK, how the law affects young people, how we can be active citizens, human rights, different forms of government and immigration. This unit was originally used as the first unit the Year 7s would take in Citizenship, but has since been added to and improved. The original written unit plan is included and everything is entirely editable too.
This includes 7 x 1 hour PowerPoints, dozens of worksheets and clips clips, well differentiated activities and engaging tasks. Useful for PSHCE / Citizenship or British Values. 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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5 hours of fully resourced, PSHE lesson packs all about drugs and the UK classification system (the Class A lesson is a double). 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: A focus on Class A drugs - crack, heroin, krokodil, DMT, ecstasy, magic mushrooms, much more. Can anyone become addicted to these?
2. A focus on Class B drugs - ketamine, ritalin, codeine and cannabis (+ derivatives)
3. Class C and perscription drugs (steroids, painkillers, GHB, Khat, more) - what are these and how do people fall into addiction without even realising it?
4. What kind of penalties can we expect in UK law for possessing or selling drugs? Are any mind altering substances legal in the UK now?
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10 resources and a calendar which can be used throughout February to celebrate or observe all the special days, occasions and themes throughout the month.
This collection contains 10 Powerpoints, quizzes, information packs, worksheets, literacy activities clips and creative activities which can easily be picked up and used straight away.
What are February’s special days and themes?
February is LGBT+ History Month and also includes:
Fairtrade Fortnight
Valentine’s Day
Safer Internet Day
Random Acts of Kindness Week
Eating Disorder Awareness Week
All resources in the pack are editable, easy to follow and can be picked up and used without any extra work by you.
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17 x essential SMSC assemblies for any secondary school. These assemblies have gained excellent reviews so far and are all editable and adaptable. They are best suited to KS3 / KS4. Each one is 15-20 minutes long and is very easy to follow, with clips, stories and funny parts but also important and memorable advice for students.
Included:
Resilience Assembly
Achievement and Aspiration Assembly
Attendance Assembly
Anti-bullying Assembly
Mental Health Assembly
Behaviour Assembly
Inequality Assembly
Fake News Assembly
Brexit Assembly
Kindness Assembly
Careers Assembly
Autism Awareness Assembly
Black History Assembly
Fresh Starts Assembly
Mental Health / Exam stress assembly
End of Term Assembly
Safer Internet Day
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This PSHE collection contains all the EC Resources lessons and Tutor Time sessions for LGBT+ RSE / PSHE and contains 10 hour’s worth of teaching content for PSHE and Tutor Time sessions.
All lessons are heavily three-way differentiated and planned to the latest PSHE Association and DfE guidance for Relationships and Sex Education - RSE PSHE. This pack includes a mix of 5x Tutor Time sessions (30 mins each) and 7 x 1 hour PSHE lessons, as well as a quiz pack and is suitable for KS3 or KS4.
The lessons include detailed, editable, easy to follow PowerPoints, accompanying worksheets and clip tasks, easily measurable LOs and a mix of engaging and challenging activities. The sessions have been created to be perfect to just pick up and use.
You can find our Complete KS3 PSHE Pack here.
You can find our Complete KS4 PSHE Pack here.
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TEN HOURS WORTH! 22 x easy to use reading comprehension packs with three sections of differentiated questions each. These can be used in form time as part of literacy focus, or in English lesson for KS3/4 or GCSE comprehension training. Keep checking back if you download this as I’ll be adding lots more.
Rise of the YouTube Vloggers - who are they and how did they make their millions?
Brexit - what’s going on now? Why are people getting annoyed? What does this mean for Britain?
Trump - what has he said now? What are the global implications of his presidency? What is this man’s background and why is he still so popular with some?
Environmental issues - a very serious article about very scary problems students will face in their lifetimes unless serious action is taken.
E-Sports and professional gamers. What’s it like to be one of these? How do they do it and what exactly do they do?
Flat Earthers - what is this new trend? Why do some people believe the Earth is flat? An investigation into the growing anti-science trend and why this movement is gaining momentum.
Rise of the Online Trolls - why do people ‘troll’? Who are these bullies hiding behind screens? This article investigates.
The rising popularity of plastic and cosmetic surgery - what is this, what are the ethical issues behind it and why is it so popular?
Virtual reality - what can we do with this technology? How does it work and what’s in store for the future?
Tattoos - too cool for school or looking like a fool? Why is there so much prejudice against tattoos in a professional workplace and is this likely to change any time soon?
Alternative Facts - what are these? Who came up with this term and what do we need to know?
The Sugar Tax - why should your pay more for your favourite bottle of pop? This opinion piece investigates the rights and wrongs of this controversial tax.
Scientology - just why is this organisation so rich?
Terrorism - how have our attitudes towards terrorist plots changed? (Bonfire Night and Guy Fawkes Focus)
15, Fracking - what is this and what’s the big fuss about?
The antivaxx movement - who are these people rejecting vaccines? Why? What’s the problem with this?
All of these articles are pretty interesting for students and teachers! All are very easy to use and a good way to combine Current Affairs / Citizenship and English.
Brexit latest - all the options and possible consequences.
Teenage mental health - time to take it seriously.
Dangerous internet challenges - why some people fall victims to trolls.
Being a responsible consumer - why it’s time to turn to fair trade.
Do we really need an International Women’s Day? An investigation.
Amazon and the toy-craze madness - why do people turn consumer-crazy at Christmas?
All of these articles are pretty interesting for students and teachers! All are very easy to use and a good way to combine Current Affairs / Citizenship and English.
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3 hours of fully resourced upper KS2 lessons and a quiz which serve as an introduction to British Values, with a focus on identity and diversity.
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.
Included:
An introduction to the concept of identity, what it means to be British and how people can have multiple identities.
An introduction to the concept of diversity, how Britain is a diverse country and how we should treat everyone equally, with respect.
A fun, light-hearted British Values Quiz
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Collection of PSHE workbooks for the new 2020/21 Guidelines. Each workbook contains 20-24 pages of information and activities and has been created for the new PSHE / RSE and Health 2020 Statutory Guidance. Each contains all of the information needed to learn about the topic in the first few pages, then the rest of the booklet is full of activities to complete.
Workbooks Included:
Relationships
Pregnancy and parenting
Contraception
Forced Marriage
LGBT Pride Month
Each booklet is differentiated and great for recording progress in PSHE. It’s easy to print and editable (as it comes in a portrait-version ready to print PowerPoint as well as a PDF version) - so you can always amend it for your students. This could be left as cover (as appropriate to the class and cover teacher) as there’s nothing explicit on the relationships side of things and all of the terminology is carefully explained. No internet access needed.
Also included:
Signposting for further help and advice
Progress checkers
Whole School literacy activities
Creative activities
Editable, optional assessment pack (with an example of how to fill it in, as shown as a healthy lives assessment)
There is a PowerPoint lesson pack which can be used in conjunction with this workbook (although you don’t need to use them together, each pack is discrete), which can be found here: Unhealthy + Controlling Relationships
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, 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 Complete Secondary 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
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A Crime and Law Drop Down Day Pack - A set of 6 lessons to cover a Citizenship / PSHE Drop Down Day (6 hours) which could be use with either KS3 or KS4 as an off time-table day for the end of term.
All the resources are editable and well-differentiated so it could be used with any year group KS4 / KS3, with the option to tweak if you want to.
Each lesson lasts an hour and they can be used in any order:
How do we define criminal behaviour and why o we punish criminals?
What is hate crime? How does UK law deal with it and why is it important we study it?
How does the Criminal Justice System work in the UK?
How do we deal with young offenders in the UK? What is criminal responsibility?
What are criminal and civil courts? Who deals with what and what’s the difference?
What is hate speech and why is this a controversial topic online?
All these individual lessons have been rated very highly by Tes users and are tried and tested in my own department.
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5 hours of lessons which all have a focus on controlling / coercive relationships and abuse, created for the new DfE PSHE guidelines and PSHE Association guidance for 2020. These lessons have been put together for a Drop Down Day as they all follow the theme of abusive relationships, but could easily be used as a short PSHE unit instead, or even in Tutor Time.
**Included: **
What are coercive and controlling relationships? How do we know if we, or someone we know, are in one and how do we seek help?
Human trafficking and modern slavery - what are these? How are they so abusive, how do they happen and where can we go for help?
What constitutes abuse in a relationship? The verbal, physical, emotional and financial elements of abuse.
What are is stalking and harassment? An exploration into this both online and offline, the legalities and where to go for help.
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.
If you like these, you can find the EC Resources Complete Secondary PSHE Packages here:
Complete KS3 PSHE Package
Complete KS4 PSHE Package
Or at the EC Publishing website.
Single year group packs can be found below:
Year 7 PSHE
Year 8 PSHE
Year 9 PSHE
Year 10 PSHE
Year 11 PSHE
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are the most popular PSHE and Citizenship author on TES, with 700+ free or inexpensive, five-star rated lessons and bundles. We have had 2 million downloads now, in 185 countries! Our Tes award-nominated team have 35 years combined experience teaching in the UK state and grammar sector, in classroom teacher, Head of Department and Assistant Head roles. We also produce commissions for charities and government institutions and all our resources are editable, well-differentiated and designed with both Ofsted and pupil progress in mind. Join almost 4000 other teachers in our Facebook group, co-curated with the RSE Service.
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A one hour - 90 min long lesson suitable for KS2 or low ability Year 7s, all about the meaning of diversity and how Britain is a diverse country. It is well differentiated with three-level challenges for each task, contains a variety of activities, an hour long PowerPoint, a clip with questions, a literacy focus task, new key-term introductions, homework, reading aloud materials and creative tasks.
The lesson encourages students to reflect on their own diverse backgrounds and consider how they treat those different to themselves. It is created as part of a KS2 British Values scheme of work. It is fully editable, engaging and very easy to follow.
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A mega bundle of AQA GCSE Citizenship Revision and Exam Practice. This bundle includes practice exam questions, revision guides, activities.
The pack covers all themes of the AQA Spec (and therefore largely the same content as Edexcel and OCR - but this was created for AQA).
There is around 30+ hours worth of content here, so should be enough to keep your students going for a while! All have been created by an experienced Citizenship teacher and AQA marker.
These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All the resources are editable (so easy to adapt further for your classes if you want to).
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4 x hours of fully resourced lesson packs which all have a focus on our environment and how it is changing due to the influence of human activity. These are ideal for a Citizenship drop down day, short unit, or could be useful for KS3 Geography too.
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.
Included:
Climate Change + Global Warming- what are these? How is it affecting us and can anything be done to stop it?
Why do so many people oppose fracking? What exactly is this?
How can we help our world by shopping ethically?
How are people like Greta Thunberg and groups like Extinction Rebellion protesting against climate change - will it work?
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13 hours of fully resourced lesson packs (11 PowerPoint-based lessons and one workbook) which all have a focus on abusive and unhealthy relationships, from date rape and sexual assault to domestic violence, cults, revenge porn and much more. These are designed to cover the PSHE Association’s latest guidance for 2020-24 (to cover all forms of abuse) and the new statutory PSHE requirements.
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.
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