PSE Other- Third & Fourth Level Videos
Produced by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, an educational film for children/young people and the professionals who work with them on the impact of domestic abuse.
BBC Short documentary portraits of primary children with a range of disabilities, learning differences and medical conditions. The films are designed to help encourage inclusion.
‘Trust Me Film’ is a unique film exploring the impact that gambling and other risk-taking behaviours can have on young people as well as their family, friends and communities. The film draws on the views, experiences, and imaginations of Scottish young people and is the only free film-based teaching resource on this topic in the UK.
Planning for Choices and Changes- Third & Fourth Level Other
Planning for Choices and Changes- Senior Phase Links
Information about career paths and options
Exercises and activities exploring and challenging ideas and preconceptions about jobs. Discusses skills and qualities needed for jobs.
PSE Other- Third & Fourth Levels Links
Resources to support practitioners teaching young people about gambling
Resources to support teaching about anti-sectarian behaviour in Scotland. Includes the opportunity for a free school workshop for pupils.
Third and fourth level resources teaching young people about their role in road safety.
Crush Resources- Domestic Abuse
Resources for teaching about domestic abuse.
Variety of resources focusing on rights of the child
MESP- Third & Fourth Level Videos
No Knives Better Lives Videos and Audio
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).
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
PSE Other- Third & Fourth Level Lessons
Lesson plans and resources to support the deliver of lessons around financial skills, transitions, interviews etc
Royal Bank of Scotland- Money Sense
Online interactive activities to promote positive financial skills
Shelter Scotland’s School Resources cover homelessness, housing, welfare and poverty. These are all social studies materials for both primary and secondary schools in Scotland, all built in line with the Curriculum for Excellence
Lessons to ensure all children enjoy their right to an education
Lessons to support fundraising in schools
Resources to support fundraising in schools
Resources to support practitioners teaching young people about gambling
Resources for delivering lessons on Domestic Abuse
Beyond a Culture of Two Halves- Sectarianism Resource
This resource has been updated by YouthLink Scotland as part of the Action on Sectarianism
website (www.actiononsectarianism.info) on which it is now available to download for free.
This resource has been developed in collaboration with school practitioners, extremism experts, the Department for Education and the Home Office. It is designed to reflect recent developments around extremism and empower staff to safeguard pupils as part of a whole-school approach to implementing the Prevent duty.
Government advice and trusted resources for schools to safeguard students from radicalisation, build resilience to all types of extremism and promote shared values.
MESP Third and Fourth 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.
Support for schools and children to cope with bereavement
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.
Information, lesson plans, powerpoints, animations for staff to lead discussions around mental health
Access learning and activity resources, aimed at teachers, to bring the issues Oxfam works on to life, both in the classroom and the wider community.
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 provides help and practical advice for supporting children and young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing.
Better Eating Better Learning
Guidance to support schools and all stakeholders to work in partnership to make improvements in school food and food education
A web based source of information and support for young people and their families on a number of health related topics.
Resources and information on a range of topics associated with teenage cancer
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
Child Exploitation and Online Protection command. Information for keeping young people safe online
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).
Resources to support teaching about anti-sectarian behaviour in Scotland. Includes the opportunity for a free school workshop for pupils.
Exploring why people can become bullies and how we can prevent this
DEAL is a free resource for teachers and other educational professionals designed to help develop resilience in young people.
motional Resilience Toolkit provides practical guidance in promoting the resilience of young people as part of an integrated health and wellbeing programme.
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.
Find information about how to look after your emotional wellbeing, support from organisations around Scotland and tips on how to promote a positive mindset.
MESP Third and Fourth Level Lessons
On Edge aims to tackle the myths that surround self harm, reduce the stigma associated with it by increasing understanding of its function, reduce the barriers to help seeking by raising awareness of sources of support and promote a consistent humane response to a behaviour which is a manifestation of distress.
Information and exercises relating to self-esteem and body image
A whole-school program from P1 to S2, Bounce Back! provides students with practical strategies and life skills to handle challenges and adversity encountered.
This lesson and accompanying film explores the issue of cyberbullying with an LGBT focus. Through the toolkit activities students will define cyberbullying and recognise examples of it; exploring when actions have crossed the line. In addition to this there is clear signposting to advice and support on how to respond to and deal with issues of cyberbullying.
Information, lesson plans, powerpoints, animations for staff to lead discussions around mental health
DEAL is a free resource for teachers and other educational professionals designed to help develop resilience in young people.
Our guide for educators will help you teach important road safety messages to children age 2-18 and meet curriculum goals
Direct link to the presentations available for knife crime prevention work with young people
ShunBurn – Teenage Cancer Trust
Protecting skin and avoiding skin cancer. Register for a free downloadable teacher resource pack
STOP Stigma – Cornwall Healthy Schools
STOP Stigma aims to increase students’ awareness of stigma linked to mental health problems, the role of the language in stigma and increasing knowledge and understanding of mental health problems
Rise Above – Department of Education England:
There are resources covering the following areas, however, these are based around Key Stages 3 & 4 as rather than CfE: Social media, Sleep, Dealing with change, Transition to secondary school, Puberty, Bullying and cyberbullying, Smoking, Online stress and FOMO, Alcohol, Exam stress, Body image in a digital world and Forming positive relationships
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.
By learning facts about mental health, young people will be able to explore and challenge their own values and attitudes to mental health. This learning activity is based on third/fourth level experiences and outcomes.
Young people will learn about the importance of sleep in maintaining positive wellbeing and health.e.
Young people will be encouraged to investigate ways to improve the quality of their sleep to maintain positive wellbeing and health.
They will learn information and techniques to help them get a great night’s sleep.
How Much Quality Sleep Do I Get?
Young people will be encouraged to think about their own sleep patterns and how they can make slight changes which may have a significant impact on their wellbeing and health.
Dealing with different challenging situations can cause a range of short and longer term emotional responses for everyone at times. This activity helps young people to identify coping strategies to help them to manage when they face challenging personal circumstances.
Dealing with different challenging situations can cause a range of short and longer term emotional responses for everyone at times. This activity helps young discuss using a sensory or self-soothe box as a strategy to help cope with difficult personal circumstances.
Dealing with different challenging situations can cause a range of emotional responses, including anger, for everyone at times. This activity helps young people to think about the kinds of things that make people angry and ways to cope with these often intense feelings.
Here you will find some ideas to support you to design an activity to help young people to explore the kinds of things that people worry about at different stages in their life.
Here you will find some ideas to support you to design an activity to help young people to think about the differences between worry, stress and anxiety.
This activity helps young people to explore the different ways that people cope with feelings of worry and anxiety. It also helps them to reflect on how well they themselves cope.
Mental, Emotional, Social and Physical Wellbeing- Third & Fourth Level
