This is a series of 6 tasks that look at being / living as an independent person - mainly focused upon having responsibilities, knowing how to feed yourself (weekly shopping) and budgeting. Task 1: Weekly Food Diary Task 2: Weekly / Monthly Food Planner Task 3: Weekly / Monthly Budget Task 4: Preparing for University (physically and mentally) Task 4.2: Living Independently Task 5: Cooking for Myself These tasks can be used as one-off lessons, or as a series of lessons to build up their confidence in (as I like to call it) “Adulting”.

This is a booklet that contains 15 Creative Media / Business focused job advertisements. They are based upon real adverts, but the names have been changed (to protect the innocent!). The point of the booklet is that they search for a job that they think applies to them / that they would like to apply for. They write their CV and Letter of application in response to the advert. They then send you the CV and letter of application for feedback.

Using pictures to create dramatic scenes / storylines: this worksheet takes students through 10 tasks to build towards a final drama piece of their own making. Task 1 is looking at the pictures and creating ideas, through to Task 10 to perform their drama piece. This worksheet can be used by experienced drama teachers, or perhaps used to help cover teachers through a series of lessons (perhaps 3 - 5 lessons, depending upon length of lessons / desired drama length). Drama pieces created from this could be 1 scene, to a whole 10 minute piece (or even bigger!), depending upon your needs / requirements / the direction you give. The pictures come from a free image source website, so are copyright free.

This script explores the issue of bullying. I originally wrote it for Year 8, but it could be used for late in Year 7 or early in Year 9. There isn’t a series of lesson plans attached to it yet, or scheme of work, but I am planning to create one soon. Hopefully it is fairly self explanatory. Please use it as you wish. There are scenes that are scripted and some that your learners should devise themselves , with guide lines as to what should be in the scene, sometimes more or less prescriptive. This script was originally written for Drama lessons, as I could not find a script that really hit the things I wanted them to explore, at the right level. However, it could also be used and the issues explored in PSHE or another context (perhaps a project). Please use it to use in lessons, or as a school performance, but please do quote me as having written it. Hope you find it good / useful / interesting. Please remember that some of the scenes may hit some difficult situations and be reflective of learner’s own experiences. It is important to support them as they explore the scenes and situations.