R U OK?

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.

 

Action for Happiness

The Keys to Happier Living Toolkit is an engaging, accessible and evidence-based programme to promote the emotional wellbeing and resilience of children aged 7-11

 

Respect Me

These resources are designed to help you spark conversation and inspire action among children and young people in your setting. For maximum impact they should be used as far as possible within a whole-setting approach to anti-bullying.

 

Samaritans DEAL resource

DEAL is a free resource for teachers and other educational professionals designed to help develop resilience in young people.

 

See Me- Resilience Toolkit

Emotional Resilience Toolkit provides practical guidance in promoting the resilience of young people as part of an integrated health and wellbeing programme.

 

Red Cross

These curriculum-linked activities, sessions and teaching packages are ideal for PSHE, Citizenship, English, Art, Geography and informal learning time. They help primary learners develop empathy with others, learn to help others, develop their resilience and gain many other life skills.

 

Hands On Scotland:

Hands on provides help and practical advice for supporting children and young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing. HandsOn was developed by Playfield Institute, a part of Fife CAMHS, along with other services including Educational Psychology and School Nursery.

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.

 

Brake- Road Safety

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.

 

CEOP

Child Exploitation and Online Protection command. Information for keeping young people safe online

 

No Knives Better Lives

Knife Violence Prevention Scotland – No Knives Better Lives. NKBL is a Scottish national programme that aims to deter young people from carrying knives. It is a collaboration between Scottish Government and YouthLink Scotland (the national agency for youth work in Scotland).

 

Child Bereavement UK

Support for schools and children to cope with bereavement

 

Circle of Friends

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.

 

Go Safe Scotland 

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.

 

Seasons for Growth

Seasons for Growth is a loss and grief peer-group education programme to support young people aged 5-19 years and adults who are affected by change, loss and grief. It was first  delivered in 1996 and is well established in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Training required to deliver

 

YoungMinds – children and young people’s mental health charity

Resources to support with the mental wellbeing of young people

 

The Daily Mile

The Daily Mile is a fully-inclusive, free and simple initiative which improves the physical and mental health and wellbeing of children. There is no extra workload for teachers.

 

Learning 4 Kids

Lots of active play ideas that are searchable by age and theme

 

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 | Tree of Knowledge

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

 

  

 

GIRFEC: Wellbeing Web | The Learning Exchange (iriss.org.uk)

Wellbeing web tool created by Angus Council to look at wellbeing of children/young people

 

Mind of My Own

At Mind Of My Own we believe that every child should be able to give voice to their lived experience – and be heard. We create fully accessible apps that provide a unique digital solution to advancing universal children’s rights; as such we are the only digital tool that comprehensively supports Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). 

 

NHS- Handwashing for Children

Children’s pack of activities for handwashing

 

  

 

Bounce Back 

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

 

Emotion Works 

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.

 

Philosophy for Children

Web-based bank of lesson plans and resources to support P4C. These resources require a subscription.

 

Telling Tales Series

Web-based bank of lesson plans and resources to support P4C. Subscription required

 

Better Movers, Better TWeb-based bank of lesson plans and resources to support P4C.hinkers

Better Movers and Thinkers (BMT) is an approach to learning and teaching in physical education designed to develop the ability of all children and young people to move and think in a more cohesive way with a specific focus on developing, enhancing and fostering Executive Function (EF) skills within the learning process.

 

BBC Rodd’s Bad Day- Sleep is Important

Presenter Rodd helps us learn how lack of sleep affects how our brain works. Rodd is usually very organised but he is staying up too late playing computer games. The children help him realise how badly he is affected by the lack of sleep through playing a memory game. Rodd then goes off for a good night’s sleep and returns bright and cheery with a tidy house. He plays another memory game and is able to remember things much more clearly.

To play the first game you will need scissors, a pencil sharpener, rubber, apple and a lunchbox. For the second – scissors, a watch, a water bottle, pencil and sock are required.

 

NSPCC- Let’s Talk Pants

A link to the lesson plans for Talk Pants and Stay Safe.

 

Return to School 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.

 

Why We Need Sleep

This activity explores what happens when we sleep and why sleep is important for growth, development and good health and wellbeing.

 

Developing Bedtime Routines

This activity encourages children to develop good bedtime habits to help them get enough sleep. Children are asked to consider strategies which help them prepare to relax in order to fall asleep.

 

What To Do When I Feel Lonely

At times we experience loneliness or feelings of isolation. These activities will help children to reflect on why people are lonely at times and explore ways of dealing with this.

 

What To Do When I Feel Worried

For children and young people to manage their anxiety requires awareness and strategies. These activities will help children to reflect on why they are anxious at times and explore ways of dealing with this effectively.

 

What To Do When I Feel Sad

We all experience sadness in our lives. These activities will help children to reflect on why people are sad at times and explore ways of dealing with this.

 

My Nervous Tummy

This activity supports children to understand why they sometimes feel nervous or anxious. The activity explores how they can find simple ways to cope with the emotional and physical symptoms they might experience as a result.

 

Talking it Over

This activity supports children to understand why talking about feelings of anxiety or worry helps us all to cope with the emotional and physical symptoms we might experience as a result.

 

Healthy Minds

This activity supports children to consider what strategies they can use to help them to cope with worries, anxieties and when they might be nervous. This builds on previous activities and enables children to explore some simple techniques to support their mental wellbeing.