We found these great lessons to help children understand and deal with this crisis. they were developed in Australia because of the bush fires but they are SO relevant to what our children are going through. Use them if you are in school teaching children or with some adaptations use them for ZOOM or Microsoft Teams online lessons. I'm going to try them with a Y6 ZOOM class after Easter.

Rise Above is a website and set of free resources from Public Health England. These new resources cover change and how to deal with it. For primary there is a lesson about transition to secondary school, with some nice film in which children and young people talk about the changes they have faced, how they coped and how to support others going through change.

This  Powerpoint of lesson starters/interactive activities/posters/film clips provides highly engaging, thought-provoking materials for KS2 or 3 lessons and assemblies.

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This interactive text allows children to explore girl-on-girl bullying

This interactive text allows children to explore bullying from the perspectives of bully, victim and bystander

These checklists allow children to review how well they met success criteria for working well together in groups. There are checklists for KS1, Y3/4 and Y5/6. Each relates to learning opportunities and outcomes in the Getting on and Falling Out Theme.

A primary SEAL resource to help children understand the links between feelings, thoughts and behaviour

A cut-out and assemble resource for children to show how they are feeling

This theme focuses primarily on the key aspect of motivation, with a subsidiary focus on self-awareness. It gives an important opportunity for all children’s abilities, qualities and strengths to be valued.The theme provides opportunities for the children to reflect on themselves as individuals, particularly their strengths as learners and how they learn most effectively. For Wales, Welsh medium. Note that there are English medium versions of this booklet. Please search under 'Wales: English medium'.