PSHE teaching resources

Healthy Lifestyles

• How habits can have both positive and negative effects on a healthy lifestyle
  Related lesson – Vapes and children: what should be done?
• About the benefits of the internet
  Related lesson – Metaverse: a new realm to rule?

Mental Health

• Mental health is part of daily life, the importance of taking care of mental health
  Related lesson – Mental health: doomscrolling
• To recognise that anyone can experience mental ill health
  Related lesson – Sport and mental health

Managing Hurtful Behaviour & Bullying

• Discrimination: what it means and how to challenge it
  Related lesson – Women and girls in Afghanistan

Shared Responsibilities

• To recognise reasons for rules, laws and human rights
  Related lesson – Women and girls in Afghanistan
• The relationship between rights and responsibilities
  Related lesson – Humanitarian crises: responsible photography
• The importance of compassion, care and concern for others
  Related lesson – Global wars: should countries do more to support others?
• Shared responsibility for protecting the environment and how our everyday choices can affect it
  Related lesson – Fast fashion: should it be banned?

Communities

• Different groups that make up a community and valuing their different contributions
  Related lesson – Black History Month: celebrating black innovation
• Stereotypes: how they can negatively influence behaviours and attitudes, challenging them
  Related lesson – Misogyny in the news
• Prejudice: how to recognise discriminatory behaviours and ways of responding
  Related lesson – Black History Month

Media Literacy and Digital Resilience

• Positive and negative use of the internet & social media
  Related lesson – Mental health: doomscrolling
• Assessing the reliability of information sources online and strategies to evaluate this
  Related lesson – Building news literacy: misinformation and disinformation
• Different ways information and data is shared, ranked and targeted at specific individuals and groups
  Related lesson – Israel and Palestine: news literacy
• How text and images can be manipulated or invented in the media/social media
  Related lesson – Trump's shooting: conspiracy theories

Economic Wellbeing: Money

• How people’s spending decisions can affect others and the environment (e.g. Fair trade, buying single use plastics, giving to charity)
  Related lesson – How should countries budget their money?

Self-concept

• What can affect wellbeing and resilience (e.g. life changes, relationships, achievements and employment)
  Related lesson – Where's the best place to live in 2024
• The impact that media and social media can have on how people think about themselves and express themselves, (body image, physical and mental health)
  Related lesson – Social media: are schools doing enough?

Bullying, Abuse and Discrimination

• The impact of stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination
  Related lesson – Break the bias
• The unacceptability of prejudice-based language and behaviour, offline and online
  Related lesson – Literature: should Roald Dahl be censored?
• The need to promote inclusion and challenge discrimination safely, offline and online
  Related lesson – Discrimination in design: disability

Media Literacy and Digital Resilience

• How features of the internet can amplify risks and opportunities, e.g. speed and scale of information sharing, blurred public and private boundaries
  Related lesson – Post-pandemic: parasocial relationships
• Benefits and positive use of social media, including how it can offer opportunities to engage with a wide variety of views on different issues
  Related lesson – TikTok: how should it be managed?
• That on any issue there will be a range of viewpoints; to recognise the potential influence of extreme views on people’s attitudes and behaviours
  Related lesson – Andrew Tate: misogyny online

Financial Choices

• Evaluating social and moral dilemmas about the use of money, including the influence of advertising and peers on financial decisions
  Related lesson – How should countries budget their money?

Self-concept

• Self confidence, self esteem & mental health: how they can be affected positively and negatively
  Related lesson – Andrew Tate: misogyny online

Mental health & emotional wellbeing

• Developing empathy and understanding about how daily actions can affect people’s mental health
  Related lesson – Women and girls in Afghanistan
• Change and its impact on mental health
  Related lesson – Eco-anxiety
• The ways in which industries and advertising can influence health and harmful behaviours
  Related lesson – Should under-18s be allowed to be pop stars?

Bullying, Abuse and Discrimination

• Strategies to challenge all forms of prejudice and discrimination
  Related lesson – Discrimination in design: technology

Employment Rights and Responsibilities

• The unacceptability and illegality of discrimination and harassment in the workplace, and how to challenge it
  Related lesson – Break the bias

Media Literacy and Digital Resilience

• That social media may disproportionately feature exaggerated or inaccurate information about situations, or extreme viewpoints; to recognise why and how this may influence opinions and perceptions of people and events
  Related lesson – The media: information or influence
• How data may be used with the aim of influencing decisions, including targeted advertising and other forms of personalisation online; strategies to manage this
  Related lesson – Numeracy in the news: misleading numbers
• Strategies to critically assess bias, reliability and accuracy in digital content
  Related lesson – Building news literacy: misinformation and disinformation
• To assess the causes and personal consequences of extremism and intolerance in all their forms
  Related lesson – Misogony in the news

Financial Choices

• To recognise and manage the range of influences on their financial decisions
  Related lesson – Cost of living crisis: inflation