Resources for Teachers & other Key Workers

Additional Resources – KS3

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Facts4Life Delivery Overview

• DfE Statutory Requirements (Secondary) view
• Curriculum Guidance (Secondary) view

COVID-19

• Questions & Answers: Useful suggestions on how to answer children’s questions about the Coronavirus

Managing Health and Illness

Iceberg Module – Understanding Illness and Improving Health

• The Iceberg Idea (PowerPoint)
• The Iceberg Idea (Teachers notes)
• The Iceberg Idea (Poster)

When I am Ill – Considers the emotional, physical and environmental influences that impact on our health, and provides strategies for positive self-management

• PowerPoint
• Teacher Notes
• Nicky & Sam Activity Sheet
• Smoothing the Path Top Tips Activity Sheet

Check-in Activities

These activities help you to tune in to your pupils’ emotional state and give them an opportunity to reflect upon how they feel.

• Check-in activities

Neuroscience Module

Session 1 – Keeping Balanced

• PowerPoint
• Teacher Notes
• Activity – What do you know about the brain?

Session 2 – Riding the Ups and Downs

• PowerPoint
• Teacher Notes
• Activity – Emotional or Rational Response?
• Activity – Gingerbread Person

Session 3 – Smoothing the Path

• PowerPoint
• Teacher Notes
• Activity – Coping Strategies
• Activity – Five Ways to Wellbeing Strategies
• Activity – Five Ways to Wellbeing Calendar
• Ways of Stimulating the Vagus Nerve
• Activity – Final Review

Session 4 – Self-Regulation Challenge

• Self-Regulation Challenge
• Video (mp4) – My Busy Brain and How I Can Help It

Staying Connected

Managing social media and its impact on health

• PowerPoint
• Teacher Notes
• Activity Sheet 1
• Activity Sheet 2 – Social Media Charter

Sleep

Highlights the importance of sleep in keeping us healthy

• Sleep Fact File
• BBC1 Panorama ‘Sleepless Britain’ documentary clip 

Facts4Life 30 Day Challenges

Facts4Life 30 day Activity Challenge

• Facts4Life 30 day Activity Challenge Booklet 
• Gold Certificate 
• Silver Certificate
• Bronze Certificate

Facts4Life 30 day Wellbeing Challenge

• Facts4Life 30 day Wellbeing Challenge Booklet (2021)
• Facts4Life 30 day Wellbeing Challenge Booklet Insert (2021) – Suggestions for Five 5 Ways activities
• Gold Certificate
• Silver Certificate
• Bronze Certificate

Click here for further information on the Five Ways to Wellbeing

Assemblies

• KS3 Assembly script
• KS3 Assembly PowerPoint

Mindfulness

• Stop and Take a Breath
• Mindful Me Activities sheet – click here to listen to sound files online for each of the activities
• Mindful Me Activities sheet inc. embedded sound files – Please note as this is a pdf with embedded files you will need to save it and then open it in Adobe for the links to be activated
• Mindful Me Activities sheet – Outside I Spy list

Fact Files

• Fact Files Activity Ideas
• Download all of our Fact Files as a zip file 
• Visit our wide range of Fact Files to select the topic that you want to use for your Fact File Activity 

Plenary Activities

Finish with a plenary activity to help pupils process, prioritise and summarise the learning

• KS3 Plenary Activities

F4L Snakes & Ladders Game

• Instructions
• Game Board  (pdf; print on A3 ideally)
• Chance Cards
• Question Cards

Misc.

• Draft Letter to Parents
• F4L Fact File Prompt Questions
• Pre and Post Attitudes Evaluation Sheet (pdf)
• Pre and Post Attitudes Evaluation Sheet (Word)