An interactive story that encourages discussion of bullying. This programme, which has been designed for use in the classroom, helps tackle bullying by exploring the feelings of all those involved. Year 6 pupils from Hollickwood Primary School in north London, have created an interactive photo-story that follows the thoughts and actions of a bullying victim, the four children who bully him, and his classmates who suggest ways to help him.

Two secondary schools in Wiltshire teach emotional intelligence at KS3 and KS4. The Corsham School, a Specialist Visual Arts College, has a broadly average pupil intake. Springfields Specialist Sports College is an SEN residential school for troubled teenagers who have been unable to cope in a mainstream setting. Science teacher Emma Davies at the Corsham School helps Year 7s to recognise discrepancies between their feelings and their actions. At Springfields, pastoral care team member John Rogers teaches his Year 9 group how to change their attitude from negative to positive.

Starting with A for Admin, this film takes an alphabetical journey through the key issues affecting teachers preparing pupils for GCSE exams. Thirteen teachers share their strategies for teaching pupils on the C/D borderline, overcoming the problem of timing in exams, and using memorizing techniques. They also talk about their favourite revision strategies, the importance of trust, and what they’d never try again! This programme is one of a two-part series where experienced teachers share their tried and tested techniques for supporting pupils through exam preparation and coursework.

Teenagers talk about sexual bullying in schools. An informative introduction to the issue of sexual bullying, this video is designed to get KS3/4 PSHE students thinking about what sexual bullying is, and how it can make others feel. Discussions with teenagers reveal the differing attitudes towards sexual bullying and how often this behaviour can be construed as normal, making it a widespread but largely un-addressed form of bullying. The video is broken into bite-sized sections, helping students gain a clear understanding of the topic.

Shepherd School, Nottingham, has been recognised as a site of best practice in delivering Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) to young people with learning difficulties. "The work on sex education and relationships is a particular strength", Ofsted reported. This programme explores the thinking behind the pioneering approach to sex and relationship education, and aims to stimulate debate among professionals about delivering an SRE curriculum for pupils with severe and profound learning difficulties. Headteacher David Stewart believes that there is a need to ensure that young people with learning difficulties are safe but that they are also able to enjoy happy sexual lives and healthy relationships. Concessions must not be made because the individual has a learning difficulty. It is an important part of the citizenship curriculum at Shepherd School, involving rights and choices. Controversially, David argues, SRE needs to begin when pupils are as young as five.

Establishing the ground rules. In this video from Teachers TV, John Bayley watches outstanding reception teacher Libby Pryce, who has developed a personal style of behaviour management distilled from thirty years of experience. At work on the first morning of the school year, Libby’s top priority is to ensure that her new pupils feel safe and secure. The programme offers tips to prepare children for learning: Provide familiar activities and encourage the parents to stay until they feel happy that their children are settled.

Young people talk about their drug and alcohol misuse. This programme should be watched in full for suitability before showing to your class Three young people talk candidly about their experiences with drugs and alcohol in this video resource for KS3 and KS4 PSHE. They discuss what drove them to take drugs and potentially put their health, education and futures at risk and the impact it had on their lives. The short film also shows how they were helped by services like Ru-ok? in Brighton and how they eventually overcame their addictions.

Teenagers talk about sexual bullying in schools. An informative introduction to the issue of sexual bullying, this video is designed to get KS3/4 PSHE students thinking about what sexual bullying is, and how it can make others feel. Discussions with teenagers reveal the differing attitudes towards sexual bullying and how often this behaviour can be construed as normal, making it a widespread but largely un-addressed form of bullying. The video is broken into bite-sized sections, helping students gain a clear understanding of the topic.

Teenagers talk about their battle with anorexia. With more under-16s being hospitalised from anorexia than ever before, three teenagers take time to explain their own struggle with this life-threatening eating disorder. Anorexia is a complex mental illness which can affect young men as well as women. Lindsay, Rob and Constance reveal what led them to become anorexic and, along with testimonies from their families, health services and schools, they also describe the long-road to recovery. Three teenagers, two girls and a boy, talk openly about their battle with anorexia, and staff at a school and a psychiatric unit talk about how sufferers can be supported. Often over-simplified as an aspiration to look like models and celebrities, anorexia is a complex mental illness with a range of causes. Moreover, anorexia is increasingly affecting teenage boys as well as young girls.

'The show where your feelings are the topic of the day”, in ‘KS1/2 PSHE’. For the children of Our Lady of Lourdes RC Primary School and Our Lady of Grace Junior School, the classroom becomes the television studio from which they present facts, strategies, advice and scenarios about emotional issues that other KS2 children will recognise. The aim is to inform and stimulate further discussion and work around the SEAL topics of ‘New Beginnings’, ‘Getting on and Falling Out’, and ‘Going for Goals’. The video can be viewed as a whole or in segments.

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Establishing the ground rules. In this video from Teachers TV, John Bayley watches outstanding reception teacher Libby Pryce, who has developed a personal style of behaviour management distilled from thirty years of experience. At work on the first morning of the school year, Libby’s top priority is to ensure that her new pupils feel safe and secure. The programme offers tips to prepare children for learning: Provide familiar activities and encourage the parents to stay until they feel happy that their children are settled.

Behaviour guru, Sue Cowley, works with Baz Barrett, a Year 3 teacher at Ward End Primary School in Birmingham and focuses on Classroom Routines. Baz recognises there are a number of crunch times throughout the day when behaviour in the classroom can become disruptive i.e. before and after break times, carpet time, getting the classes attention, plenary sessions. Sue and Baz look back at a typical day in Class 3, they review the footage and discuss the crunch times that have occurred. They discuss a number of strategies for Baz to try out when he returns to the classroom to enable him to gain the focus of the class quickly. Two weeks later Sue visits Baz's classroom to see how he's got on. They talk about how her suggested strategies have worked and Sue demonstrates some of the tactics she uses to quickly focus a class.

In Early Years, advisors Sue Durant and Sheila Sage demonstrate developing strategies for 'fun-centred' learning. Here, they look at daily routines and explore how these tasks can be used to develop young children&'s independence and imagination. Familiar routines, from hanging up coats, self-registration and visiting the toilet, are looked at as well as the value of children choosing and directing their own activities. Sue and Sheila examine how to use and vary the physical space in the setting, providing thinking space for children and time to respond and learn.

Bullying is a problem that affects almost every school. Name-calling can be a particularly hurtful form of bullying that can lead to depression and loneliness. Bullied is a series of assembly starters for secondary and primary students that features interviews with young people who have been bullied. In Bullied: Name-calling, one 14-year-old describes the emotionally exhausting experience of being continuously called names and ignored by his peers, which started at his primary school. For teachers, this short film could prompt questions including: How can excluding someone from a game be bullying? Imagine that you were ignored like this- what would you do? Why is it so hurtful to be called names? What would you do if your friends were calling someone names?

Follow the learning experiences of three autistic brothers. Including pupils on the autistic spectrum at primary and secondary brings particular challenges for schools. This whole-school video on SEN shows an honest account of life with autism, with views from three autistic brothers. Inclusion can be challenging for teachers, and for the pupil school life can be a buzzing confusion of uncertainty. Meet brothers Luke, Joe and Ben Jackson. Their mother Jacqui is outspoken and articulate about how teachers can support pupils with autism, and the boys are extremely candid about how their condition affects them. For Luke, there are many positives. He describes brother Joe as 'the most imaginative person you could ever meet' and Ben as 'the nicest and most honest kid'. Jacqui and the boys share their ideas about living with autism, as do the teachers who are working with Joe and Ben to ensure their inclusion in school life. There's also an exercise devised by Luke that helps teachers imagine what the world is like for people with autistic spectrum disorders.

PSHE lesson starters looking at money, debt and employment. Intended to provoke classroom debate this series of short videos show teens talking about money, work, self employment, redundancy, debt and discrimination. Issues discussed include; money, and why is it so often at the root of arguments? What costs more, your car or your house? Why do we work, and should we enjoy it? Debt and discrimination are also explored covering the questions; How do people get in so much debt and who is discriminated against, and why? These short clips make an excellent discussion point for teenagers to debate and understand social and emotional issues.

How classroom layout can help maximise pupils’ learning. How should teachers organise their classrooms to maximise pupils’ learning? There are some tried and tested formulas? straight rows, grouped work at tables or working in pairs. Geoff Barton, headteacher at King Edward VI School in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, looks at the advantages and limitations of three ways of organising seating for pupils. While teachers may feel constrained by the shape of their classrooms or the school building, he encourages them to try different ways of boosting pupils’ learning and participation in class. This programme was created by the Video Request Service in direct response to a request from the Teachers TV audience.

A lively and powerful lesson on the health risks of sex.

Troubled Minds is a series of four short animated films, narrated by young people who have been real-life sufferers from a range of psychological illnesses and syndromes. In this programme, a young woman describes the dangerous eating disorders of binging and purging from which she has now recovered but which once threatened her life.

Following three young fathers in Sunderland, this programme looks at what is being done to help teenage fathers, often ignored in the issue of teenage pregnancy. When debating the issue of how to reduce the high levels of teenage pregnancy in Britain the traditional focus has always been on young women. While much has been done in recent years in schools to make sure that teenage mothers get the right support at the earliest opportunity, little has been done to tackle the issue of teenage fathers. This may be put down to the fact that school aged fathers are almost invisible as a group, unlike their female counterparts, but the fact remains that we don’t even know how many teenage fathers there are in this country. Society often regards teenage fathers as feckless individuals who get the girl pregnant and then leave them literally holding the baby. Yet all the evidence shows that when young fathers are offered reliable and sympathetic support, the impact on them, their children and their families can be profound. We met three young fathers in Sunderland to find out about their lives. Who are these invisible young men?