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

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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

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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)

 

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