Member resources

This comprehensive pack from Northern Ireland contains lessons and accompanying resources for work on some of the difficult feelings that can arise within relationships between people - jealousy, r

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These fabulous free resources come from the Tower Hamlets Oracy Hub and Tower Hamlets Education Partnership.

We liked this secondary Place2Be lesson about how we communicate, especially through non-verbal signals and facial expression. It will get students thinking about how they communicate online.

Thse poems about the experience of migration and being a refugee are very useful for work on empathy and valuing difference.

These secondary resources from Equal Rights, Equal Respect help students understand the experience of others.

Here are some nice ideas based on a link to video clips from the film Turning Red, for primary work on anger and other 'huge emotions'

A lesson for upper primary and first year of secondary from Wolverhampton Headstart - looks at what empathy means, how to see others' perspectives, and how to use active listening to resolve confli

Excellent  resources for Y5... Powerpoint, lesson plans, photos, baseline assessment... from Leeds NHS.

Nice new secondary lessons on celebrating differences, and combatting prejudice, stereotypes and racism

Great picture books and teaching ideas

• Here we have  a fantastic KS1 lesson sequence, with resources, based on the picture book Ravi’s Roar, that combines oracy with work on understanding and managing angry feelings.

Plenty of resources including assemblies, lesson plans and film resources

We absolutely love these free resources from the Tower Hamlets Oracy Hub, as they combine our passions for oracy and social and emotional learning. The lessons help children learn to talk effectively together in groups, at the same time as developing empathy and emotional awareness. There are lesson plans for each of KS1, Lower KS2 and Upper KS2, with pictures, links to videos, discussion prompts and sentence starters.

The KS1 lessons include work on friendships, loneliness and self-identity.

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This assembly plan and lesson resources were created as part of the Mentally Healthy Schools World Mental Health Day 2020 resources, but can be used any time for work on diversity and difference. There are lesson plans for three different primary age groups.

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Some classroom ideas for building a sense of community

Lessons in empathy: a nice primary lesson idea about welcoming a newcomer

Space Tortoise- a book to use for primary work on welcoming strangers

The Suitcase - A lovely picture book about kindness to strangers

A great primary/early secondary assembly Stop bullying with a tube of tooothpaste

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- a primary or secondary assembly or lesson  resource (slides with teacher notes)on valuing diversity and difference,  from Tower Hamlets. Includes a fabulous slide picture asking Would you want to live in a world wher everyone looked the same?

- a set of secondary lessons (slides with notes)  to meet the Prevent duty , also from Tower Hamlets. Covers prejudice, empathy with refugees, understanding what is and isn't true.

If you are working on the theme of change, why not focus on the experiences of refuges and migrants? We've uploaded a colection of resources here. Also useful for any work on empathy, diversity and belonging.

Ideas on helping older primary and secondary pupiils to understand why we sometimes use hate speech-speech which attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as race, religion, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, or gender.

Here you'll find a moving video, a secondary PowerPoint resource created by pupils for pupils, and a bunch of nice activity ideas based on children's books.

A pack of teaching resources to support work on the book by R.J. Palacio - Wonder, adapted for younger readers as We’re All Wonders. Recently turned into a film starring Julia Roberts, it tells the story of a boy called Auggie with a facial abnormality who struggles to make friends. The simpler version confine itself to how people stare at him and say unkind things behind his back, and how that makes him feel. In the more complex original, his parents have to shield him from this by educating him at home, but now he is about to start school and dreading it.

You may not have taken part in the summer Great Get Together event to celebrate the life of Jo Cox MP, who was killed because of her beliefs. But you can still use the nice classrooom activities from the resource pack devised by the Jo Cox Foundation, which help childen learn that they have lots in common with others they may feel different from. We've uploaded the primary and secondary packs here.

You'll also like this film 'The DNA journey- we are more alike than we think'- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyaEQEmt5ls.

First watch this fabulous film about a Cambridgeshire school that had a kindness week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2BRVWDRhdc

Then go to the website of the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation where you will find a whole set of free resources and lesson plans from the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation,  for all ages

https://www.randomactsofkindness.org/for-educators#lesson_plans

You have to register and they ask some tedious questions but it only takes 3 minutes.

First, we think you will like Crabs versus ants versus penguins - a fun film about the power of working in a group https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jop2I5u2F3U

For empathy, we love the What is empathy lesson, uploaded below, which helps children understand what empathy means. It includes a brilliant short You Tube film, New Boy, based on a story by Roddy Boyle. Beware though – ne of the children at one point uses the word f—cking so you might need to do some clever editing.

Here we have first some new planning additions to the members’ resources area of the website. We have some Y4 medium term SEAL planning from Jo Taylor, and from Fred Daynes (thank you Fred) PowerPoints of the Y4 and 5 Getting on lessons from the national resources.

For work on friendship, for the Foundation Stage we have a PowerPoint about how to be a SuperFriend, and a set of Reception/KS1 cards for children to fill in after the class have read Tony Ross’ I want a friend (uploaded by Angela Scrivens – thank you!)

Schools in England are required to actively promote fundamental British values to their pupils, both in lessons and in extracurricular activities. The values are defined as democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect, and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. Under the Prevent Duty, schools must also actively protect children from the dangers of extremism.

There are some great ideas for kinder classroooms in the blog we've uploaded below. Try the 'Secret Supporter' idea too - there are lesson plans  for each age group. Finally, why not hold a 'random acts of kindness' day or week in school?  To get you going, at

http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2015-05-01/meet-the-boy-making-barry-a-ha…; you'll find a nice news article and film about a boy who decided to make the world a better place through random acts of kindness.

For primary we have the Value of Friendship lesson with activities including friendship bingo and giving compliments, from avatarcrossy70 - big thanks. It comes with a WORD resource for the bingo game.

Here we have a fantastic collection of slideshows and scripts for assemblies which support the SEAL themes Getting on and falling out, and Learning to be together.  There's:

- a secondary slideshow of great quotes on friendship, with transitions designed so that it runs about the same time as Lloyd Cole and the Commotions Brand New Friend. This can be easily changed to fit other songs, such as Rembrandts theme from Friends or James Taylor’s You Gotta Friend. Uploaded by Ozsubrosa- thank you!

These lessons from The Ophelia Project in US help girls learn about 'relational aggression' -  the subtle tactics of social exclusion, spreading rumours and threats to withdraw friendship that are so common amongst girls. There are 6 lessons for each age group.

In this film actor Robin Williams talks with the two headed monster from Sesame Street about the word conflict.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl3e-OUnavQ

These resources help children develop empathy. For primary schools there is a link to a Sesame Street film illustrating what empathy means, a lovely lesson called Empathy in a shoe box, and a Pass the Face circle activity to help children read social cues. There's an Empathy prints cut-out for literacy or history ( contributed to TES website by Temperance - thank you): students explore how a character might be feeling by imagining they are in their shoes and fill in the shoe outlines.

Two award-winning short films that help children understand that the same event can be seen from different perspectives.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_522923&feature=iv&src_vid=_SsccRkLLzU&v=vDGrfhJH1P4

The review begins with an evaluation of whether the model of emotional intelligence (EI) proposed by Goleman (1996), on which the SEAL programme is based constitutes a valid and useful construct for educationalists. 

Concluding, on the basis of the take-up of the SEAL programme in schools that it does, it then evaluates the evidence as to whether social and emotional skills are correlated with attainment, and asks whether such skills can be successfully taught.