This is a double sided A4 (or A3) printable page from my full Reflection / Mental health / Wellbeing journal (Version B).
There are three sections:
Reflecting on me
Academic reflection
strategies for the coming week
This can be copied as and when required to support students to evaluate and reflect on their personal progress through school.
Perfect for Tutor/Form time or as an engaging activity for a Friday afternoon.
This pack is a template for a student booklet following a visit to a place of worship. This version is based on a Church but it could be easily adapted for any faith. The booklet is designed to help students capture key elements of the visit and to encourage increased religious literacy.
The Reflection / Mental health / Wellbeing journal with 112 pages is designed to last a full academic year. This is version A. See Version B for an alternative design with different activities.
It will help you to to move the Zones of Regulation programme forward and maintain its momentum with students throughout the year.
There are 5 sections:
A simple Zones of Regulation recap/overview
Space for students to rate their week
A ZONES question of the week
Calming doodle pages to support well being
Fun quizzes and challenges for students to complete
It promotes growth mindset and develops reflective skills in your learners. Embedded Zones strategies support students with regulating their behaviour.
This journal can be used on its own or to accompany my Zones of Regulation lessons.
It is perfect for embedding a healthy reflection and discussion of behaviours/mental health/resilience across school.
Perfect for Tutor/Form time or as an engaging activity for a Friday afternoon.
‘In The Zone’ is a Therapeutic and Fun Card Game that Empowers Young People to Take Charge of Their Thoughts, Actions, and Emotions.
It enables you to explore resilience with young people in a fun and interactive way. Based on the Zones of Regulation, it has been developed to support conversations and interactions that help young people to regulate their emotions and change their actions to better suit situation. Playing the game will also strengthen the bonds and relationships between them and their friends.
Instructions:
Print these pages on card or thick paper
Cut out the pieces
Play the game in groups of 3+
Turn cards face down
Take turns in revealing a question and asking the group
Give the card to the person whose answer you connect with the most
First person to collect three cards wins!
A one hour, fully resourced lesson providing a basic yet comprehensive introduction to the quality of life arguments for/against abortion.
This pack includes lesson plan, resources, and a powerpoint that includes many strategies including quizes and exam practise opportunities.
This resource has been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes).
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A presentation providing a basic yet comprehensive introduction to the Argument from Religious Experience.
Through this presentation students will receive a clear explanation of ideas, strengths and weaknesses as applied to the argument. There are also activities related to Martin Luther King and Muhammad.
This resource has been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. Fully editable (so easy to adapt for your classes).
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A one hour, fully resourced lesson providing a basic yet comprehensive introduction to the Ontological Argument. Suitable for beginners.
This pack includes a worksheet, a student answer for peer marking purposes, and a powerpoint which has useful prompts for discussion.
This resource has been designed to be engaging, detailed and yet easy to follow for beginners to the philosophy of religion . All resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes).
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A one hour, fully resourced lesson providing a basic yet comprehensive introduction to The Cosmological Argument. Perfect for beginners to the Philosophy of Religion.
Resources include a simple presentation and a number of worksheets (blank and complete) that support students to break down each aspect of this argument in a clear and logical way. Through this students will receive clear explanations of ideas, strengths and weaknesses as applied to the Cosmological Argument (Thomas Aquinas’ three ways - Kalam Argument)
This resource has been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes).
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These worksheets support students to explore the difference between atheists, agnostics and theists. They include key facts and templates for students to capture information and get to the heart of the differences.
A one hour, fully resourced lesson providing a basic yet comprehensive introduction to Meta Ethics.
Over 29 slides through which students will receive clear explanations of ideas, strengths and weaknesses as applied to meta ethics.
This pack includes lesson resources, annotated exemplar exam answers and a powerpoint.
This resource has been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes).
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An engaging RE quiz. Interactive presentation. Combined with recall questions from your recent lessons (not included) students can select a jigsaw piece to remove from the slide. This will reveal one part of the full image.
This template is fully adaptable, I have used it with a selection of images suitable for RE.
This resource has been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes).
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An introductory powerpoint exploring and explaining the Hajj.
Students will learn about the requirements and the route/rituals of the Hajj through a story presentation.
This resource has been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes).
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6 hours worth of lessons introducing Buddhism - perfect for KS3. It is suitable for use with students who know very little about Buddhism but can be easily tweaked to be suitable for more able students.
Each lesson includes a lesson plan, and a range of resources including quizes, writing frames, stories, interview soundbites, quotes from sacred text. The pack is fully editable and easy to follow.
Lessons include:
Buddhism introduction - the life of Siddhartha Gotama
Exploring Buddhist stories
The four noble truths
Meditation
What Buddhists say about their faith
A final assessment lesson
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A one hour, fully resourced assessment lesson for students who have explored the life of the Buddha and what it means to be a Buddhist today.
Students will:
share and clarify ideas which might provide an answer to the question: ‘What does it mean to be a Buddhist?’
undertake and complete their assessment assignment
This pack includes lesson plan,and resources. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes).
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A one hour, fully resourced lesson exploring Buddhist meditation.
Students will:
know about Buddhist meditation
understand why Buddhists practice meditation
This pack includes lesson plan and resources. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes).
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A one hour, fully resourced lesson exploring what Buddhist’s say about their faith.
Students will:
learn what Buddhists say about their faith and what it means to be a Buddhist.
reflect on their own views, and the views of others, on the challenge of being a Buddhist.
This pack includes lesson plan and resources. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes).
You will find many more inexpensive and free resources at my shop: PinkWatermelonTeach
A one hour, fully resourced lesson exploring the four noble truths.
Students will:
• know and be able to explain the Four Noble Truths;
• be able to make use of examples from everyday life to explain an idea or a belief rather than just describe it.
This pack includes lesson plan and resources. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes).
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A one hour, fully resourced lesson exploring the life of the Buddha.
Students will learn the story of the Buddha through a story presentation. Students will:
• know and be able to interpret two Buddhist stories;
• understand the Buddhist belief – ‘living in the moment’.
This pack includes lesson plan and resources. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes).
You will find many more inexpensive and free resources at my shop: PinkWatermelonTeach
A one hour, fully resourced lesson exploring the life of the Buddha.
Students will learn the story of the Buddha through a story presentation. They will understand three Buddhist ideas:
true happiness is in the mind not in conditions in life;
true happiness is to achieved by living ‘in the moment’;
true happiness is dependent on having a ‘controlled mind’.
This pack includes lesson plan, powerpoint and starter task. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes).
You will find many more inexpensive and free resources at my shop: PinkWatermelonTeach
This is a 15 minute whole school presentation and activity on the theme of Motivation. It is used during form time to explore the theme of the week (see theme of the week planner)