Careers Future Planning + Post-16 Options - For the Gatsby Benchmark Careers Guidelines. 1-2 hour fully resourced careers lesson which introduces the concept of careers, jobs and vocations before investigating the best ways students can establish the right career paths for them. The lesson sees students creating a six point plan based on the provided information, clip tasks and other activities and is perfect as an introduction lesson for a PSHE / Citizenship careers unit. This resource pack includes a one hour long PowerPoint with accompanying worksheets, well differentiated activities, literacy focus tasks, clip tasks with three-way differentiated questions and information sheets. The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. It is useful for PSHE, Citizenship or Tutor Time. As with all our lessons, you don’t need any prior knowledge as all the information is included - you can just pick up and teach it. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: MORE PSHE RESOURCES.

Worksheet that includes questions about career planning and development. The worksheet includes five questions that encourage students to think about their career and the steps they need to take to achieve their career goals. This is a quick prep activity that could be used to structure a full lesson, as it asks students to go into detail when explaining their answers. After students complete the activity, the answers could be debated with the whole class.

My Skills and Careers Booklet contains 20 pages and has been updated for the 2024 academic years. This Careers booklet is packed full of varied activities, worksheets, tasks for students to undertake with regards to exploring their own skills and qualities in line with thinking about their future career opportunities. The booklet also has activities related to Labour MArket Information and exploring employment sectors whilst also considering thing like how Brexit may impact Labour trends. This Careers Booklet also comes with some of our most popular careers resources. I will detail a list below Contents included 1 x 20 Page A4 Careers Booklet of activities 1 x Student Workbooklet in PDF format 1 x Set of Careers Domino Templates 1 x Student Blank Poster Template 1 x Skills and Qualities Card Sort activity with Worksheet ✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ Have a look at some of our highly popular specialist careers units: ☞ Year 7 Secondary Careers Unit ☞ Year 8 Secondary Careers Unit ☞ Year 9 Secondary Careers Unit ☞ Year 10 Secondary Careers Unit ☞ Year 11 Gatsby Benchmark Careers in Context Unit ☞ Year 12 Secondary Finance and Careers Unit ☞ Year 13 Secondary Finance and Careers Unit

2 HOURS NEW DfE RSHE GUIDELINES COMPLIANT (see lesson plan included for details). New, double lesson all about how we appear to others online and how poor presentation can taint an employer’s view of us. Over 90% of employers admit to screening potential candidates’ social media, so in this lesson students will examine exactly why employers do this, and what they’re looking for. Students will then assess case studies of seven teenagers with questionable or positive social media profiles, giving advice on how they can improve and what should not be posted or should remain private. They will then assess tweets from celebrities and politicians that either made them lose their jobs, or made them lose face in the public eye, investigating why and what we can learn from these. The lesson includes a detailed, editable PowerPoint, accompanying worksheets, information pack, clip tasks, analysis tasks, creative tasks and much more. Suitable for KS3 or KS4. Includes detailed lesson plan. This lesson is taken from the new EC Publishing Complete 2026 PSHE Package which can be found at the EC Publishing website. Everything is editable and easy to pick up and run with and includes future DfE updates too. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk THIS LESSON IS FROM THE EC COMPLETE SECONDARY KS3 KS4 PSHE PACKAGE 2026 This contains all the new DfE RSHE 2026 topics - AI deepfakes, sextortion, chatbots, brain development, coercive control, online misogyny, harmful behaviour online and so much more. Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, The British Legion, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. We also offer a Complete KS3 RE Package Please visit our Tes store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EC_Resources for everything PSHE, RSE, RE and Citizenship. We still offer a free lesson of your choice for each time you leave a review! Just email info@ecpublishing.co.uk

2 HOURS! For the Gatsby Benchmark Careers Guidelines. fully resourced careers lesson (no internet or computers needed - all job research info is provided). Students have information about 16 different types of jobs and careers in a variety of sectors (A4 info sheet on each). They then have templates to complete to research if the job is one they could potentially pursue as a career - answering probing questions about their own suitability, skills and qualities as they explore each one. The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. It is useful for PSHE, Citizenship or Tutor Time. As with all our lessons, you don’t need any prior knowledge as all the information is included - you can just pick up and teach it. Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. Check out our PSHE Packages here: Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE One Year of KS5 PSHE and RSE One Year of Citizenship and British Values Complete Year 7 and 8 RE Complete Careers and Employability AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack

Careers, Jobs, Work Skills + Employment Quiz. For end of term or any time! For any secondary year group as a part of a Careers unit, or as an informal PSHE / Careers assessment. This is an easy to use, Careers and Employability Skills Quiz which compliments the Gatsby Guidelines, covering questions on a range of topics, including: Job interviews and applications Life in work Employability Skills Pay and conditions Rights at work Future Careers Qualifications Apprenticeships Perfect for a Tutor Time session, end of term PSHE lesson or for using any time during a Careers unit for a bit of colourful, interactive fun. All answers included on a separate document, with full explanations. The questions are divided between multiple choice and true or false. Everything is editable, so easy to adapt for your own planning. If you like this, we also provide a complete KS3 PSHE Package for schools as well as hundreds of other lessons and PSHE assessment and PSHE audit tools. Check out the EC Publishing website for full, affordable PSHE, Citizenship and RE Packages for all year groups including the new 2024 Complete PSHE Package. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk Leave a review for this quiz and pick any resource from any of these stores, up to the value of £3, for free! (drop us an email with the one you’d like - info@ecpublishing.co.uk) English - PSHE, RE, Citizenship - Humanities - The quiz is in the Zip File labelled ‘Careers Quiz’. The image files have been uploaded just so you can see the kind of questions in the quiz as a preview. Many more free and inexpensive resources for PSHE, RE, Tutor Time, Citizenship GCSE and RSE available at my store and at my store: EC Resources

Job Interviews + Preparation. For the Gatsby Careers Guidelines - a detailed lesson containing a 1-2 hour PowerPoint, worksheets, clips, interview role play activities - for KS3/ KS4. Includes detailed lesson plan. This lesson has recently been updated for 2026, and students will spend the first part following the journey of a student called Katey, as she tries to gain a position in the tech industry. They will follow her from Year 8, how she prepared, worked hard and overcame setbacks up until the age of 22, when she finally lands a job at a small start-up. Students will then think about their own journeys, before completing job interview role play exercises and finally creating a TikTok (not on their phones) about how preparation for their eventual successful job interview actually starts now, whilst still at school, Check out the EC Publishing website for full, affordable PSHE, Citizenship and RE Packages for all year groups including the new 2026 Complete PSHE Package. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk. This contains all the new DfE RSHE 2026 topics - AI deepfakes, sextortion, chatbots, brain development, online misogyny and so much more. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes) and are designed to last one hour each. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :)

2 HOURS - Careers / PSHE Living in the Wider World lesson which covers in detail how to create fantastic CVs and cover letters when applying for jobs. Students will explore poor, mediocre and excellent versions of each of these, analysing where applicants went wrong and how they could have improved, They will explore what makes a successful cover letter and CV, in detail, and then create their own (templates are included). Includes case study examples, clip tasks, partnered activities and more. All editable and easy to pick up and teach for non-specialists. The lesson includes a detailed, editable PowerPoint, accompanying worksheets, example CVs and cover letters, paired tasks, clip task, templates and much more. Best suited to KS4 (or KS5) but nothing unsuitable for KS3. Includes detailed lesson plan. This lesson is taken from the new EC Publishing Complete 2024 PSHE Package which can be found at the EC Publishing website. Everything is editable and easy to pick up and run with and includes future DfE updates too. This has been written to cover the 2020-24 PSHE guidance from the DfE and PSHE Association for Living in the Wider World and the Gatsby Careers guidance. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, The British Legion, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. Please visit our Tes store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EC_Resources for everything PSHE, RSE, RE and Citizenship. We still offer a free lesson of your choice for each time you leave a review! Just email info@ecpublishing.co.uk Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 12,000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource

Interview Preparation. Careers and PSHE (Life Skills & Wellbeing) Lesson Pack. Learning Outcomes: To understand how to prepare for an interview To understand the do’s and don’ts during an interview To practice a mock interview Each Lesson Pack Contains: 1 Fully Editable PowerPoint (Learning Outcomes, Confidence Checkers, Assessment of Learning, Variety of Tasks, Video Embedded URL Clips, Engaging Premium Quality Slides, Extra Support Websites, Challenging & Thoughtful Questioning) Student Worksheet(s) Mindfulness Extension Activities Assessment Opportunity (Confidence Checker) Teacher Notes (On some slides) Mapped against Latest DfE Guidance, PSHE Association Core themes and Requirements Mapped against Gatsby Benchmark in Careers standards We sell Complete Careers and Gatsby Careers Benchmark Units - Take a look at some of them here: ⇨ CAREERS KS3 UNIT ⇨ Careers, Employability Skills + Enterprise Unit ⇨ Careers and Gatsby Benchmarks Quizzes ⇨ Post 16 Options and Careers Lesson ⇨ Careers and Employment Activities and Cardsorts ⇨ Skills and Qualities Careers Quiz ⇨ Careers - Writing a Personal Statement ⇨ Careers - Student Workbook ⇨ Careers - Interview Preparation Lesson

Careers & Gatsby Benchmarks Virtual Escape Room A brand-new, interactive escape room experience by Cre8tive Resources – perfect for a full lesson of engaging, educational fun! Ideal as a team-based activity or end-of-term reward, this virtual escape room lasts around 60 minutes, depending on how quickly teams crack each puzzle. What’s Included: Interactive PowerPoint Tracker – Keeps score and boosts classroom competition Escape Room Puzzle Packs – Six full sets of puzzles (one per team) Team Record Sheets – For students to log codes, answers, and clues as they progress Seven Puzzle Rooms – Each room features a different style of challenge covering literacy, numeracy, problem-solving, and logic Teacher Answer Guide – Makes checking team progress simple and quick Setup Instructions – Easy-to-follow guide with printing tips and classroom shortcuts Escape Certificates – Award for successful teams (includes a bonus challenge for early finishers!) Puzzle Room Themes: Secret Bunker Space Station Garden Tunnel The Office Dungeon The Island Skate Park Each puzzle room is carefully themed and tailored to Careers education and the Gatsby Benchmarks, making it a fun and meaningful resource for KS3 and KS4 students (and even high-achieving KS2 groups). Why Choose This Resource? At Cre8tive Resources, we believe in helping students develop independence, problem-solving skills, and real-world knowledge. All our resources are: Ready to teach Designed by experienced educators Classroom tested and student approved Whether used in a drop-down day, enrichment session, or as a creative break from routine, this escape room will get students thinking, collaborating, and laughing—while still learning! Why not try out one of our other fantastic Escape Rooms English and Language Digital Escape Room Big Fun End of Term Digital Escape Room PSHE and Form Time Escape Room Citizenship & Politics Digital Escape Room Citizenship & Law Digital Escape Room Religions and Society Digital Escape Room JUST PRINT AND GO! They can also be used to encourage a flipped learning environment. Search ‘Cre8tive Resources’ for support with our library of resources or send us an email. Leave a review and email TheCre8tiveResources@gmail.com for a free resource as a thank you!! Explore all our resources on TES

2 HOURS - NEW PSHE / Careers lesson for 2026, perfect for students to begin to assess and develop their personal skills, strengths, interests, qualities and values in relation to their future career paths. This lesson covers both Gatsby Guidelines and the DfE’s new 2026 RSHE Guidelines / PSHE Association’s objectives for Living in the Wider World KS3. Everything is editable. engaging and easy to follow. Lesson plan included. Students will discover their own personal skills, strengths, interests, qualities and values by assessing examples, completing progress templates, creative and fun tasks, video clip tasks, partnered activities and much more. They will then investigate the employability skills their potential future employers are looking for in the modern world, and see just how much their personal attributes have already started to apply. They will also set realistic but ambitious goals about those they wish to develop and begin thinking about how their interests and values could also help them decide upon a career path. This is taken from the new 2026 COMPLETE SECONDARY PSHE Package This contains all the new DfE RSHE 2026 topics - AI deepfakes, sextortion, chatbots, brain development, coercive control, online misogyny, harmful behaviour online and so much more. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, The British Legion, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. We also run the EC Publishing website, where you can find anything and everything for PSHE. Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 12,000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.

COVERS NEW 2026 DfE GUIDANCE (see lesson plan for details). In this lesson students will explore the intricacies of employment law and how it applies to the everyday person in a variety of situations. They will also investigate how the Equality Act is applied in the workplace, by putting themselves in the position of an employer considering new candidates. The lesson includes group tasks, literacy-based tasks, clip tasks, case studies and many other activities. Everything is editable and easy to just pick up and Includes detailed lesson plan. Taken from the new 2026 EC Publishing Complete Secondary PSHE Package. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes) and are designed to last one hour each. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :) Or you can check out some of our most popular PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources below: Mental Health PSHE Bundle 1 Whole Year of PSHE Resources British Values Citizenship Bundle Careers, Employment and Enterprise Bundle Islam Bundle Sex and Relationships Education

NEW 2026 RSHE GUIDPSHE / CAREERS lesson all about the importance of being ambitious and aspirational, but also realistic, when it comes to setting career goals. Students will investigate how it may not be possible for everyone to become an influencer, footballer or rapper - but is is possible for all of us to attain an aspirational and ambitious career if we’re prepared to put the hard work in. Students will examine case studies about ambitious people who achieved their dreams and how they had to overcome challenges to do so. They will explore how setting ambitious but attainable goals can help them achieve their very best and explore how having a fall-back plan can be a really good idea. Students will complete clip tasks, creative tasks, debate tasks, literacy-based tasks, analysis tasks and much more. Everything is editable and ready to go - created for KS3 but could be used with a younger KS4 set too. Includes lesson plan. This lesson is taken from the new EC Publishing Complete PSHE Package which can be found at the EC Publishing website. Everything is editable and easy to pick up and run with. This has been written to cover the 2020-24 PSHE guidance from the DfE and PSHE Association for Living in the Wider World. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, The British Legion, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. Please visit our Tes store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EC_Resources for everything PSHE, RSE, RE and Citizenship. We still offer a free lesson of your choice for each time you leave a review! Just email info@ecpublishing.co.uk Check out our PSHE Packages on Tes here: Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE Complete KS5 PSHE and RSE One Year of Citizenship and British Values Complete KS3 RE Complete Careers and Employability AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 12,000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.

For the Gatsby Careers Guidelines - A careers assembly lasting around 20-25 minutes (including short clip) with a focus on why Careers Education is so important and how students can make the most of all the opportunities presented to them whilst in school. The assembly examines the cases of two fictional ex-students, Alisha and Jack, who didn’t take Careers Education seriously and ended up paying the price for it by adding years on to their lives in the time it took them to eventually find their ideal jobs. The slides in the previews are just a sample and not the whole assembly. The assembly includes optional interactive elements, a 4 minute clip, a lot of motivational information, questions for students to answer and a little humour. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship, RE and RSE resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EC_Resources

For the Gatsby Benchmark Careers Guidelines - 1 -2 hour lesson with a focus on writing CVs. This pack includes a detailed powerpoint, shortlisting and creating CVs activities, clips with questions, various differentiated activities and a selection of good to bad CVs to analyse as well as hints and tips for creating your own. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes) and are designed to last one hour each. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :) Or you can check out some of our most popular PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources below: Mental Health PSHE Bundle 1 Whole Year of PSHE Resources British Values Citizenship Bundle Careers, Employment and Enterprise Bundle Islam Bundle Sex and Relationships Education

2 HOUR LESSON for PSHE / Careers with a focus on how the rise of AI is already affecting the job market and how it will most likely affect all of our career prospects in future. The lesson focuses on the types of jobs that are already facing redundancies, the workplaces benefiting from the technology and the more ‘future-proof’ careers that it’s advisable for students to start considering. The lesson also investigates the prospect of UBI (universal basic income) and how we may see possibly this implemented in future. The lesson includes a detailed, editable PowerPoint, accompanying worksheets, AI information pack, clip tasks, analysis tasks, creative tasks, jobs info pack and much more. Suitable for KS3 or KS4, but best suited to KS4, just because of some of the terminology. This lesson is taken from the new EC Publishing Complete 2026 PSHE Package which can be found at the EC Publishing website. Everything is editable and easy to pick up and run with and includes future DfE updates too. This has been written to cover the 2026 PSHE guidance from the DfE and PSHE Association for RSE. Includes detailed lesson plan. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk Please visit our Tes store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EC_Resources for everything PSHE, RSE, RE and Citizenship. We still offer a free lesson of your choice for each time you leave a review! Just email info@ecpublishing.co.uk THIS LESSON IS FROM THE EC COMPLETE SECONDARY KS3 KS4 PSHE PACKAGE 2026 Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, The British Legion, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. We also offer a Complete KS3 RE Package All of which can also be found at discounted rates on the EC Publishing Ltd website (with a quick Google). For any queries or school invoice orders contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 12,000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.

New Careers lesson for 2026 (lesson plan details new guidelines covered) which focuses on what exactly it means to start a business and become an entrepreneur. Students will explore case studies of famous entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds, analyse a clip of Elon Musk giving advice to wanna-be entrepreneurs and complete interactive tasks following the exploits of Tom, a student who starts a business up whilst at school. The resources are editable, fun, creative and ready to go. Includes lesson plan. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are easy to adapt for your classes and are designed to last one hour each. This was designed for KS3 but could be used with KS4. Taken from new EC Publishing 2026 Secondary PSHE Package. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :) Or you can check out some of our most popular PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources below: Mental Health PSHE Bundle 1 Whole Year of PSHE Resources British Values Citizenship Bundle Careers, Employment and Enterprise Bundle Islam Bundle Sex and Relationships Education

Flipchart lesson on describing career and future plans

Basic Career Development Plan – SMART Targets To prepare for your future career, set yourself personal SMART targets to help you towards achieving your career goal. You should set a date for each to review your progress. Once reviewed, you should and set new SMART targets to help you to take a step closer towards achieving your future career.

A sample lesson plan from Highflyers Publishing to support careers education and guidance. This pack contains 18 'Careers Challenges' worksheets, designed to allow students the freedom to decide how they want to tackle their own career learning. (Apprenticeships, Further Education, Getting a Job, Higher Education, Work Experience, Volunteering & Gap Year, Self-employment/Entrepreneurship).

a blank career development plan, to help pupils with unit 4 of the btec