PSHE, Citizenship, RE, SMSC Lessons + Teaching Resources
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www.ecpublishing.co.uk We are the market leaders in PSHE + RSE resources, with over 14 million downloads of our lessons worldwide and over 5500 five star reviews. Established in 2015, our team of consultants and teachers has written for The Bank of England, The Children's Commissioner, The CCRC, The British Legion and many other UK charities and institutions. We love what we do and we aim to be highest quality and best value for money out there. Find us at www.ecpublishing.co.uk.
15 x Thematic Studies lessons (14 are one hour, one is two hour) covering a variety of focus issues from AQA Component 2 Thematic Studies.
These are all editable and can easily be amended for any exam board. These lessons are focused on Christian and Islamic views. Includes one Crime and Punishment knowledge organiser and 2 x double revision sessions.
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Complete 2020 PSHE, RSE Set-up kit with planning, audits, asessment ideas, curriculum framework, trackers and more.
Complete Secondary schemes of work for PSHE and RSE for the new 2020 Statutory Guidelines.
School auditing tools / excel PSHE and RSE tracker
British Values + SMSC through PSHE tracker
Editable assessment ideas and assessment template pack
Display pack
Secondary suggested curriculum overview
Letter home to parents concerning new guidelines
Example PSHE lessons:
1. KS3 PSHE introduction
2. KS4 PSHE introduction
These tools help you cover all the lesson content advised by the PSHE Association SoW and guidelines (as of 2020) for KS3 and KS4 and are part of the EC Resources Complete Secondary PSHE Package.
These documents could be used for ideas if you are starting out planning Secondary PSHE, or just to get a little inspiration. If you are interested in seeing all the actual lessons (many are available for free, some at a small price from the EC Resources store).
If you are interested in the Complete Secondary PSHE Package as a complete unit (which works out cheaper) or want to ask about whole school licenses, contact info@ecpublishing.co.uk
Many thanks to the wonderful Brian Reeve-Hayes for allowing EC Resources to use his audit tracker.
The audit tracker is matched to new DfE Statutory Guidace and PSHE Association coding.This includes precise and shortened explanations of the essential factors you would be expected to cover under their guidelines – for exact, detailed PSHE Association wording see the PSHE Association.
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** UPDATED AND EXPANDED - ONE YEAR OF YEAR 8 RE LESSONS, assessments and schemes of work. mark schemes, feedback sheets, homework project, 40 hours of fully resourced, well-differentiated, highly-rated, detailed and editable RE units for Year 8.**
All 40 packs (bundled into 20 downloads of individual lessons and detailed units) are complete with at least one hour-long PowerPoint per lesson, accompanying differentiated worksheets, GCSE -style prep-tasks, clip links with questions, plenaries, clear LOs, starters and all are well differentiated to three levels throughout.
Includes assessments, markschemes + DIRT feedback sheets. The schemes of work are in the unit packs or the lesson downloads for each half term. These are:
Exploring Islam
Exploring Judaism
Exploring Hinduism and Buddhism
Religion, Peace and Conflict
Religion, Philosophy and Ethics
Religion and the Afterlife
These resources have been highly-rated individually by TES users, follow the same consistent format and are easy to follow.
There is zero extra work required, you really can just pick them up and teach them. However, they are also fully amendable should you wish to.
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 Bank of England, 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 RE and 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
We also run the EC Publishing website and you can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk
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UPDATED! A whole year's worth of Citizenship resources! 41 (more just added for 2022/23) x fully resourced, detailed, hour-long lessons and units of lessons for KS3 / KS4 (in 20 downloads). Perfect for Drop Down Days, Citizenship lessons, British Values or PSHCE. If you purchase this you can contact info@ecpublishing to ask to be added to the live Dropbox, where everything is updated. You still have the downloads from here too :)
All are highly-rated EC Resources Citizenship lesson packs and units, with five star-reviews from Tes downloaders. All 41 lessons are complete with at least one hour-long powerpoint, accompanying differentiated worksheets, clip links with questions, plenaries, clear LOs, starters and all are well differentiated to three levels throughout. These resources have been highly-rated individually by TES users, follow the same consistent format and are easy to follow for any Citizenship or CPSHE teacher.
There is zero extra work required, and the whole bundle follows lastest National Curriculum Citizenship stat and non-stat recommendations and Ofsted latest SRE/Safe Students guidance.
I also have a 1 YEAR'S WORTH of PSHE bundle (36 lessons) available here: 1 Year’s worth of PSHE
and I have a 1 YEAR OF RE bundle (36 lessons) available here:1 Year’s worth of RE
I use all of these myself as a Head of Citizenship and I really hope you find them excellent value. I've put literally months of time into this to make these lessons top quality for my own school team.
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Drop Down Day Pack - A set of 6 lessons to cover a Drop Down Day (6 hours) all about good decision making; healthy choices and risks.
The Drop Down Day was put together for KS3/4 originally, but all the resources are editable and well-differentiated so it could be used with any year group KS4 / KS3 with a tweak or so.
All these individual lessons have been rated very highly by Tes users and are tried and tested in my own department.
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This is half term two of the EC Resources Complete Year 9 PSHE Pack. This bundle includes 6 hours’ worth of lessons (blood, organ donation and vaccinations is a double lesson). It also includes a detailed scheme of work and an assessment pack, full of optional assessment ideas.
All of the lesson packs are complete with detailed, well-differentiated and easy to follow PowerPoints, accompanying differentiated worksheets, information sheets, clip links with questions, plenaries, clear LOs, starters and engaging activities. They also have colour coded three-level challenges throughout, so students can choose different levels of challenge in every activity and you can easily measure progress throughout the lesson. Everything is editable too.
The pack has been mapped to the PSHE Association’s guidelines and coding for the new Statutory 2020 PSHE Curriculum (as detailed in the scheme of work) but over the year includes much more than the statutory requirements, including both British Values, Citizenship and Careers too. The Complete Year 9 Pack can be found here:
The Complete Year 9 Pack is part of the Complete KS3 Pack which is available here:
A full, Secondary Complete KS3 + KS4 Pack which includes 179 hours of PSHE lessons and schemes of work is also available at our website.
Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are a small team of teachers and PSHE Consultants who have created curriculums for schools across the country and have worked to produce resources for The Children’s Commissioner, The Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov), MACS Charity, LikeToBe Careers and many other charities and UK institutions. We are Tes Award nominees for English and have had over 2 million downloads of our PSHE and Citizenship resources worldwide.
You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk
1 hour, fully resourced lesson which provides an overview and introduction to the different varieties of Islam. It examines not only Shi’ite and Sunni Islam, but also Wahhabism, Ibadi Islam and other, alternative, less well known groups.
The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. It is useful for RE or Citizenship, or could be used as a standalone lesson as something different for a drop-down-day.
The pack includes a 1 hour long PowerPoint, differentiated challenge activities, worksheets, clips and literacy focus tasks. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow.
You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: MORE RE RESOURCES
7 hour PSHE / SMSC unit on prejudice and diversity covering the PSHE Association’s KS4 guidelines on values education for 2018-19. Originally created for KS4 but easily editable for any secondary school class too. This unit covers:
British Values, Extremism, Hate Crime, Justice, Community, Diversity and Stereotypes, Racism, Misogyny and LGBT+ Discrimination
Includes: 7 x 1 hour Powerpoints, differentiated worksheets for all tasks, clips with question activities, group tasks, fun paired activities, literacy focus tasks, measurable, colour-coded LOs to three levels of challenge throughout - everything you need to teach an engaging PSHE unit.
More PSHE lessons for KS3, KS4 and KS5 can be found here.
3 HOURS of GCSE Citizenship 9-1: lessons on democracy, the electoral systems, voting age, voter apathy and English Laws for English Votes as required by the AQA spec. These could be used as a detailed introduction to the topic or a revision session. One lesson is a double, one a single.
Spec covered:
3.4.2 What are the powers of local and devolved government and how can citizens participate?
The debate about ‘English votes for English laws’. Who can stand for election and how candidates are selected.
Who can and cannot vote in elections and why; debates about the voting age.
Issues relating to voter turnout, voter apathy and suggestions for increasing vote turnout at elections.
3.2 Life in Modern Britain 3.2.2 What do we mean by identity? Mutual respect, understanding and democracy in Britain.
Created for Citizenship GCSE - Politics and Participation. Includes:
One double lesson + one single with PP, worksheets, exam practice question, peer assessment and marking grid, clips and well differentiated and easily adapted.
Made for AQA Citizenship 9-1 but suitable material for any of the Citizenship GCSE courses or could be used for non-GCSE British Values lessons.
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).
14 pages of revision activities all with a focus on regional, local, regional and devolved government for the Global Institutions and UK + Wider World section of the new GCSE 9-1 Citizenship spec. All these have been selected as stand alone activities from my Citizenship GCSE lessons and can be printed out and given as a 14 page revision guide which students can use at home, or printed individually and set as revision homeworks.
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More now added! 16 x fully resourced, highly-rated PSHE + Citizenship lesson packs and 2 assemblies with a focus on diversity. All 16 lesson packs are complete with at least one hour-long Powerpoint, accompanying differentiated worksheets, clip links with questions, plenaries, clear LOs and starters. All are well differentiated to three levels throughout to enable clear evidence of progress for all students.
These resources have been highly-rated individually by TES users, follow the same consistent format and are easy to follow.
There is zero extra work required, and the whole bundle follows PSHE Association topic recommendations and Ofsted latest SRE/Safe Students guidance.
I use all of these myself as a Head of PSHE and Citizenship and I really hope you find them excellent value. I’ve put literally months of time into this to make these lessons top quality for my own school team.
Please leave me a review and I’ll send you any other resource of your choice for free.
Many more inexpensive and free resources at my shop:
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This is half term one of the EC Resources Complete Year 8 PSHE Pack. This bundle includes 7 hours’ worth of lessons. It also includes a detailed scheme of work and an assessment pack, full of optional assessment ideas.
All of the lesson packs are complete with detailed, well-differentiated and easy to follow PowerPoints, accompanying differentiated worksheets, information sheets, clip links with questions, plenaries, clear LOs, starters and engaging activities. They also have colour coded three-level challenges throughout, so students can choose different levels of challenge in every activity and you can easily measure progress throughout the lesson. Everything is editable too.
The pack has been mapped to the PSHE Association’s guidelines and coding for the new Statutory 2020 PSHE Curriculum (as detailed in the scheme of work) but over the year includes much more than the statutory requirements, including both British Values, Citizenship and Careers too. The Complete Year 8 Pack can be found here:
The Complete Year 8 Pack is part of the Complete KS3 Pack on the EC Publishing website.
A full, Secondary Complete KS3 + KS4 Pack which includes 179 hours of PSHE lessons and schemes of work is also available at our website.
Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are a small team of teachers and PSHE Consultants who have created curriculums for schools across the country and have worked to produce resources for The Children’s Commissioner, The Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov), MACS Charity, LikeToBe Careers and many other charities and UK institutions. We are Tes Award nominees for English and have had over 2 million downloads of our PSHE and Citizenship resources worldwide.
You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk
15 (more added!) x Year 9 PSHE lessons. All fully resourced with at least one hour long Powerpoint in each pack and also differentiated fully throughout with worksheets, clips + questions, engaging activities, starters, plenaries, measurable LOs - everything. These have been all uploaded as a single Zip file so that they fit in my ‘Complete PSHE for KS3’ Bundle. All are available as siingle lessons as my shop and have excellent ratings from Tes users: EC Resources
Alcohol Awareness
Domestic Violence and Abuse
Drugs and Law Education
Why we need rules to succeed
Growth Mindset
LGBT Trans Focus
Money, Savings and Loans,
Peer Pressure
Personal Development and Self Discipline
Self Harm
Selfies and Internet Safety
Knife Crime
Stress and Mental Health
Sustainability
Acid Attacks
Ten x fully resourced lessons on gender, sex and transgender identities and and one LGBT+ Month tutor time session, with differentiated worksheets and clips - suitable for KS3/4, all focusing on the gender, prejudice, sexual identity and transphobia and transgender issues. Could be used all together as part of a Drop Down Day, part of an RSE / PSHE Unit of work or over a week in Tutor Time.
Pack includes:
An introduction into the fluidity of gender, the difference between sex and gender, as well as the prejudice faced by some of those in the LGBT+ community.
Sexism. Why does gender seem to matter so much to some in the workplace and at school? What issues do women in particular face, why is this and how can society overcome them?
What does it mean to be transgender? Who are the transgender role models and what can these people teach us about tolerance and gender fluidity?
LGBT+ Month session - trans identity focus.
What is the difference between sex and gender? What makes up our identity, our orientation and gender expression? What is the correct way to use the new terminology?
What is Feminism? What has the movement achieved for gender equality and do we still need it?
What is masculinity? What constitutes both toxic and positive masculinity? What effects do both of these have on males and wider society?
What is biological sex? What is gender and what are gender roles? An investigation into all these questions and more.
NEW - This lesson investigates the correct use of pronouns and also the rise of neo-pronouns. It invites students to make their own minds up about how useful neo-pronouns are and explains the correct use of pronouns for transgender people under the UK Equality Act, as a protected characteristic. It also talks about the use of pronouns and neo-pronouns between students, as well as how schools are advised by the government as of 2023 to handle changes in pronouns.
Gender stereotypes - what are these and why are they harmful?
Our PSHE / Citizenship 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 HERE
New KS4 / KS5 RSE Unit of 14 lessons (16 hours of content). These lessons were created specifically for KS4 / KS5 to fit with the newly released DfE guidelines for Relationships and Sex Education in UK schools, set to become statutory 2020. They are intended as a continuation of my KS3 Unit, available here: but can be taught without this and all work as standalone lessons.
My complete KS3 / KS4 set is available here.
The lessons included are:
Consent, Sexual Harassment and Rape - How can we establish clear sexual boundaries?
2) Good Sex - How can we have good, safe sex and is it best to wait for someone you care about?
Same Sex RelationshipsWhy do some people have same sex relationships, what’s it like to be in one and what challenges do couples face?
Break - Ups Why do these feel like the end of the world - and are they really?
Gender, Sex and Trans Identity What do these terms mean and why is it important we study them?
Revenge Porn - why is this on the increase, how can we prevent it and what are the legal consequences?
7) Safe Sex and Chem Sex - an investigation into the less obvious things that make sex safe and the emerging and dangerous trend of chem sex.
8) LGBT+ (focusing on the +) non-traditional relationships, asexuality and creating an inclusive school.
9) Parenting - what’s it like being a new parent? What are the different styles of parenting? How do you look after a new baby?**
10) Coercive and Controlling relationships- what are these, how are they abusive? What are the red flags and where can you go for help?
11) Sex and the media - how do media representations of sex affect us?
12) Sex, hormones and emotions - how can one night stands affect our emotions? How do we know when to take a relationship a step further?
13) Online dating safety - how can we stay safe when using online dating apps? How damaging is hook-up culture?
14) Sexual harassmentA brand new lesson which details what we mean by sexual harassment, what constitutes as sexual harassment in the eyes of the law (UK), the different forms this can take and how this can be reported correctly.
All lessons include a well differentiated PowerPoint, detailed worksheets, information sheets, engaging activities, clips and accompanying question tasks.
Many more PSHE Resources available at my store here.
Complete KS3 and KS4 PSHE School Packages available here:
Complete KS3 PSHE
1 Year’s KS4 PSHE
Collection of PSHE workbooks for the new PSHE Guidelines. Each workbook contains 20-24 pages of information and activities and has been created for the new PSHE / RSE and Health 2020 Statutory Guidance. Each contains all of the information needed to learn about the topic in the first few pages, then the rest of the booklet is full of activities to complete.
Workbooks Included:
County Lines
Teen Crime
Marriage and Civil Partnerships
Honour Violence
Contraception
Relationships
Parenting and Pregnancy
Drugs and Law
Online Safety
Consent and Boundaries
(new addition!) Forced Marriage
Black Lives Matter - Racism Workbook
Each booklet is differentiated and great for recording progress in PSHE. It’s easy to print and editable (as it comes in a portrait-version ready to print PowerPoint as well as a PDF version) - so you can always amend it for your students. This could be left as cover (as appropriate to the class and cover teacher) as there’s nothing explicit on the relationships side of things and all of the terminology is carefully explained. No internet access needed.
Also included:
Signposting for further help and advice
Progress checkers
Whole School literacy activities
Creative activities
Editable, optional assessment pack (with an example of how to fill it in, as shown as a healthy lives assessment)
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 Bank of England, 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 Complete Secondary 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
You can 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 7000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource
A bundle of 6 PSHE lessons all with a focus on personal safety and risky situations. Each lesson includes a detailed and well differentiated PowerPoint with accompanying worksheets, clip tasks and questions sheets, engaging consolidation activities, as well as literacy and debate tasks.Everything is editable, easy to follow and can be picked up and used without any extra work by you.
This Pack includes:
Personal Safety in the Wider World
Risk Taking
Unsafe Sex and Drug Taking
Health and Safety (careers focus)
Sexual harassment, abuse and rape
First Aid and CPR
These lessons could be used with older KS3 students but were created with KS4 predominantly in mind as they build on the lessons in my KS3 PSHE Pack
Many more PSHE, RE and Citizenship Resources available at my store: EC Resources
A 25 minute Tutor Time session all about maintaining a healthy and balanced diet. The session investigates the different food groups we need to be healthy and in what proportions, as well as why we can’t just take a vitamin pill to get the nutrients we need and why we are recommended to eat five portions of fruit and veg a day. The session contains three challenge learning outcomes, slides of easy to digest information, a clip task with differentiated questions, a quiz and final reflection task. The session is editable and been created to be perfect to just pick up and use. The slides in the previews are just a sample and not the whole session.
This is a 25 minute session. For full, hour long PSHE lessons on the topic of Health and Wellbeing, please see here.
Or for full PSHE, RE and Citizenship units of work, please check out the EC Resources store.
EC Resources are a small group of teachers who have created resources for the Children’s Commissioner, the CCRC, MACs Charity, TES and various other schools and charitable organisations across the UK.
Citizenship Resources: 2 -3 hours of lessons with accompanying worksheets, suitable for KS3/4 - easily adapted for either and could also be used as an introduction for Citizenship GCSE.
Our PSHE / Citizenship 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
MORE ADDED! 10x fully resourced PSHE lessons to cover the PSHE Associations’ ‘Essential Skills’ of Personal Effectiveness.
Each lesson includes a: 1 hour PowerPoint, differentiated worksheets, appropriate clips with well differentiated questions - suitable for KS3/ KS4.
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