Author: G Campbell
Planning for Choices and Changes- Second Level Online Learning
Planning for Choices and Changes- Second Level Other
MESP- Early Level Lessons
Web based resource to teach young children about the hazards and consequences they may face in everyday life and how to make the right choices to stay safe. Subscription required.
A whole-school program from P1 to S2, Bounce Back! provides students with practical strategies and life skills to handle challenges and adversity encountered. Subscription required
Set of resources and training for anyone involved in promoting and delivering emotional education in schools, nurseries and additional support services. Subscription required.
The ICE Pack- Knowing Me, Knowing You
The resource offers a combined social and emotional and skills development programme to support the delivery of a health and wellbeing curriculum. Through a whole school approach, the Knowing Me, Knowing You programme will support schools in building inclusiveness, health and wellbeing, active participation, citizenship and community thus developing the emotional and social attitudes and essential skills of children. Ages 3-12. Subscription required
Kitbag Resources (iffpraxis.com)
A set of resources to help develop our inner capacity for mindfulness, calm, resilience, compassion, relationship, reflection and so on – as individuals, in families, groups, teams and organisations.
Web-based bank of lesson plans and resources to support P4C. These resources require a subscription.
Sesame Street in Communities Resources
In response to the unprecedented uncertainty facing young children and families, Sesame Workshop’s Caring for Each Other initiative marks the beginning of a commitment to support families throughout the COVID-19 health crisis with a broad variety of free resources.
Place2Be has put together a series of resources focused on community recovery, to help headteachers and school staff start to bring their schools back together following recent challenging times. Drawing on themes including hope, gratitude and connectedness, these assembly and class activity ideas are intended as a universal resource for all children, and staff are invited to use them as starting points to promote emotional wellbeing and resilience for all.
The ideas outlined will enable you to design an experience which will support children to consider their own and other people’s physical wellbeing by assessing and managing risk in the home environment or early years setting.
Keeping Safe in Emergency Situations
The ideas outlined will enable you to design experiences which will support children to develop their awareness of how to keep themselves and others safe when there is an emergency.
How do I feel when dealing with Difficult Situations?
The ideas outlined should enable you to design an experience which will support children to explore the different emotions they feel at certain times.
Making Good Choices about Road Safety
Children need the knowledge and understanding to make good choices about road safety. Good habits start early and it is important to continue to talk about road safety to reinforce messages.
How Our Bodies May Feel When We Are Nervous
Just like adults, children can feel worried and anxious at times. They can feel anxious about different things at different ages and at different times. This activity helps young children explore how their body may feel when they experience worry or anxiety.
Relaxation exercises help children to manage their response to worry and anxiety. These activities have been designed to provide a distraction from worrying thoughts.
Experiences That Can Cause Worry
Children can sometimes be anxious and worried about new or less familiar experiences such as visiting the dentist, having their haircut or moving house. This is often because they are not sure what will happen when they go. This activity explores a visit to the dentist and supports discussion to help ensure visiting the dentist is a pleasant experience for young children. You may wish to consider a different context depending on what is relevant for your children.
Planning for Choices and Changes- Early Level Videos
Mr Tumble and Justin teach you how to sign different types of jobs that people can have.
Planning for Choices and Changes- Early Level
MESP- Early Other
A personal and social development programme developed by Fife Council to help children and young people learn the skills of getting on with others, coping positively with everyday situations, and showing sensitivity and respect while holding true to who they are.
Web based resource to teach young children about the hazards and consequences they may face in everyday life and how to make the right choices to stay safe.
Children’s pack of activities for handwashing
MESP- Early Level Links
Resources from Australia: For students, learning how to support their peers and talk about how they feel is an important life lesson, so where better to start than in the classroom? These resources for primary, secondary and tertiary educators and institutions will help students everywhere start a conversation.
Information, lesson plans, powerpoints, animations for staff to lead discussions around mental health
Better Eating Better Learning
Guidance to support schools and all stakeholders to work in partnership to make improvements in school food and food education
Mental Health Foundation- Make it Count
This guide is for teachers to help them create a classroom and school environment where children can thrive with good mental health.
Our guide for educators will help you teach important road safety messages to children age 2-18 and meet curriculum goals. Free sign up required to access the resources
First Level road safety with Ziggy: Road Safety Scotland
Go Safe with Ziggy helps equip children with the skills, knowledge and attitudes that will help keep them stay safe now and in later life.
Talk PANTS helps children understand that their body belongs to them, and they should tell someone they trust if anything makes them feel upset or worried.
NHS information site on anxiety in children
This resource includes sections on how to spot signs of anxiety and gives tips on how to help. There are useful links to films on building self-esteem in children and to another website that explains relaxation techniques to use with children.
Falkirk Educational Psychology Service
This Blog is intended to provide practitioners working in Falkirk with easy access to materials, links and advice that will assist in their assessment and intervention.
The materials and guidance section provides useful resources and we publish information on how we deliver a service in Falkirk, including our training courses in the service delivery section.
Coping skills for children and young people.
This website provides strategies used by child therapists for calming anxiety, including ideas to calm down, books to read and videos that can help.
Treehouse is an online education platform full of interactive, inspirational and confidence, boosting modules to support schools, their teachers, and pupils to be the best version of themselves. Designed by the team of psychologists, teachers and motivation experts at Tree of Knowledge. Treehouse offers a unique, fun and flexible way to support the mental health and wellbeing of staff and pupils, and increase motivation and creativity. Subscription required
MESP- ASN Lessons
Get from A2B safely | Road Safety Scotland
The A2B section aims to support pedestrian training for young people (aged 10-18+) with additional learning needs. It can also be used as a tool for learning English as a second/foreign language.These activities offer young people the opportunity to learn about roads and traffic in a safe and supported environment.
Circle of friends is an approach to enhancing the inclusion, in a mainstream setting, of any young person, who is experiencing difficulties in school because of a disability, personal crisis or because of their challenging behaviour towards others. Subscription required.
Set of resources and training for anyone involved in promoting and delivering emotional education in schools, nurseries and additional support services. Subscription required.
RSHP- Third & Fourth Level
The above link will take you to the national RSHP resource where a wealth of materials are available. Below we have provided some additional links and resources which be of interest as well.
This Is Our Faith, the syllabus for Catholic religious education in Scotland, governs the teaching of religious education in Scotland’s Catholic schools. This is the first religious education syllabus to be originated wholly in Scotland and designed to meet the needs of young people in Scotland. It was published in November 2011 by the Scottish Catholic Education Service on behalf of the Catholic Bishops of Scotland; a Senior Phase version was published in October 2015.
Sexting resource pack
This resource pack is developed further to a Sexting Project carried out by Oxfordshire County Council and Thames Valley Police. It includes lots of links to lesson plans, resources and films.
Information to promote discussion about changing bodies and puberty
My Period is a new resource to help schools have positive conversations with their pupils about periods. We know that there is a very wide spectrum of what, how and when education about periods is delivered in schools. Existing PSHE / RSHP guidelines mention periods, but not in great detail. With schools in Scotland providing free period products for pupils, and England and Wales following suit, now is the time to ensure all pupils have access to high quality education about periods. To complement the physical learning tool, Hey Girls has created comprehensive schools’ pack available to download for free.
A learning resource that examines how developing respectful relationships can prevent bullying from learning resources on the National Improvement Hub.
Stonewall’s dedicated team of education professionals work hard to bring you the resources and guidance you need regardless of whether you’re just getting started with your LGBT inclusive work or whether you’re looking to further embed and develop your practice. Whether you’re looking for best practice guidance and policy templates, posters or lesson packs written by a qualified teacher, there’s something here for you.
Icons and Moments LGBT Resource
The “Icons” and “Moments” resources and graphics packs have been developed to support teachers in marking LGBT history. They contain visual displays and lesson ideas, providing educational accounts of key people and events which have defined LGBT equality.
These resources can be utilised to support work during LGBT History Month – which occurs each February for the entire month.
The Moments Resource (and the supporting Moments Graphics Pack) provides a timeline of key events in LGBT history. These resources can be used to discuss with young people the impact of the LGBT community on our society, culture and history. Links to Curriculum for Excellence appear at the end of each Moment. The ready-to-use graphics can be printed and displayed throughout the school community.
The Icons Resource (and the supporting Icons Graphics Pack) supports practitioners to discuss with young people the LGBT community’s contribution to our society, culture and history; and to include LGBT role models in class content.
In this resource, practitioners are given the opportunity to explore the use of language and sexual identity with learners at third and fourth level whilst supporting learners to reflect on how we develop positive, inclusive relationships.
Healthy Relationships and Consent: key messages for young people
A resource for professionals which aims to help them support young people in their understanding of healthy relationships and consent.
