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PSHE in the sixth form

Blue Zones - how can we live a more healthy lifestyle and survive for longer?

PPT all about Blue Zones where a large proportion of people survive to 100 years.

Pride Month - origins of the annual event explained - adaptable PPT

Created to use in assembly or tutorial time - includes 2 short videos explaining origins of Pride and Rainbow shoe laces

International Women's Day

PPT to use in tutorial time

Holocaust Memory Day 2024

PPT for tutors adapted from HMD.ORG

Study Periods 2: Working Effectively During Study Time (6 mins) Captioned video

GETTING THE GRADES VIDEO - Students share their experiences of how to make the most of study periods - captioned and features mini-plenaries and 'Think about' discussion

PSHE Adaptable Scheme

Scheme based on PSHE-association.org.uk - use the drop-down to create your scheme

Black History Month - ready-made powerpoint

Use or adapt. Examples, video clips to play, discussion at the end

Remembrance Sunday - ready-made assembly/tutorial powerpoint

Contains two links to video clips to use with the PPT and explains Armistice Day, lest we forget, types of poppies (red, white, purple, black) and The Last Post

Remembrance Sunday - Video: In Flanders Fields (2 mins) poem by John McCrae

2 mins video of poem read out with WW1 footage

CHISTMAS QUIZ - Why Christmas? Background, ways it is celebrated and quiz questions - updated from last year

Requires staff access to YouTube to play 'guess the Christmas musical artist'

Why Valentine's Day?

Ready-made tutorial powerpoint

Valentines Day - letter to a long time partner

Letter from to a partner who is frail and losing their memory: reflecting on what is love on Valentines day.

Tackling Difficult Conversations

A pdf activity pack for 6th formers with 20 activities to experience to help learning how to tackle difficult conversations - A pdf activity pack for 6th formers with 20 activities to experience - based on material from industry management training course

Budgeting at university - video

Video (5 mins) students in their first year at university pass on advice about managing money

Finance Quiz 1

Information Quiz 1 - minimum wage, national minimum wage, income tax, national insurance

Finance Quiz 2

Finance Quiz 2

Finance Quiz 3

Quiz in PPT format with questions and information on gross/net pay, tax revenue, HMRC, VAT, Corporation tax and government expenditure.

Mental Health 2 - Reducing stress - video

GETTING THE GRADES VIDEO - students share their experience of being stressed and what they did to reduce it. Includes mini-plenaries and plenary activity within the video

Mental health 3: staying mentally and physically healthy to cope with stress - video

Mental health 3: staying mentally and physically healthy to cope with stress

Mental health: the importance of good sleep - video

Getting the Grades KS5 video (6 mins): Students discuss the importance of sleep and the impact of not having enough. Stages of sleep with REM and NREM explained. Discussion activities included in the middle and at the end.

Sleep and learning powerpoint

Sleep and learning powerpoint to use in sixth form tutorial time

Perfectionism 2: Finding solutions video - new designed student voice video (8 mins)

Students share how they tried to avoid and tackle unhelpful perfectionism - features mini-plenaries and 'Think about' discussion at the end

Staying safe: how men can help women feel safer

Staying safe: how men can help women feel safer

Writing your C.V. - what to include

Writing your C.V. - what to include

Tutorial Activity Booklet - ideal for Year 12

Tutorial Activity Booklet - ideal for Year 12: Lifestyle, Study skills, Communication, Vision.

Growth Mindset - Confidence powerpoint

Teach students the importance of confidence and resilience and how they develop from having a growth mindset - ready-made ppt

Asking for help: teachers - video

Video in which successful A-Level students encourage current sixth form students to ask for help when needed. Fosters the growth mindset in that support is seen as key to making progress.

Asking for help: friends - video

Short video of successful sixth form students passing on advice about the importance of friendship groups and peer-to-peer support

Habit Changer - video

Video (4 mins 39s) Habit Changing strategies based on the research outlined in 'The Power of Habit' by Charles Duhigg

Leap from Year 12 to Year 13 - video

The pressure of the first term of year 13 is outlined (trial exams, personal statements, choosing universities, step to 2nd year work, EPQ)

Emotional side of learning: feeling overwhelmed video

Video (4 mins) - successful students discuss feeling overwhelmed in Year 13 and how to cope.

Alcohol student-led presentation exercise

Alcohol student-led presentation exercise

Seeking support - part 1

Seeking support powerpoint for tutorial time

Seeking support - part 2

Seeking support - part 2 - powerpoint for tutorial time - mindfulness

Emotional side of learning - self esteem

​Emotional side of learning - self esteem - reflection task​

Stress activity

Stress activity

Who am I? 20 tutorial exercises

​Who am I? 20 tutorial exercises in which students read about someone famous, guess who they are, answer questions about their life

Barriers to learning - explore what you can control

Barriers to learning - explore what you can control - tutorial exercise

Starting University: preparation and the first day - VIDEO

Video (5 mins) students in their first year at university reflect on how they prepared for university and pass on tips for your first day at university.

Starting university: Freshers' Week video

Starting university: Freshers' Week

Accommodation at university: the range of experiences - Video

Video (5 mins) Undergraduates discuss university accommodation at the end of their first term at university​

Black History Month

Black History Month - ready-made powerpoint

Use or adapt. Examples, video clips to play, discussion at the end

Cancer Awareness

Christmas

CHISTMAS QUIZ - Why Christmas? Background, ways it is celebrated and quiz questions - updated from last year

Requires staff access to YouTube to play 'guess the Christmas musical artist'

Difficult Conversations

Tackling Difficult Conversations

A pdf activity pack for 6th formers with 20 activities to experience to help learning how to tackle difficult conversations - A pdf activity pack for 6th formers with 20 activities to experience - based on material from industry management training course

Tackling Difficult Conversations - seek their story first - role play activity

Tackling Difficult Conversations - seek their story first - role play activity - Tutorial exercise

Finance

Finance Quiz 1

Information Quiz 1 - minimum wage, national minimum wage, income tax, national insurance

Scholarships - what are they and where to find them

Powerpoint on scholarships to use with sixth form students

Finance Quiz 2

Finance Quiz 2

Finance Quiz 3

Quiz in PPT format with questions and information on gross/net pay, tax revenue, HMRC, VAT, Corporation tax and government expenditure.

Budgeting at university - video

Video (5 mins) students in their first year at university pass on advice about managing money

Fireworks

Holocaust Memorial Day

Holocaust Memory Day 2024

PPT for tutors adapted from HMD.ORG

International Women's Day

International Women's Day

PPT to use in tutorial time

Mental health and sleep

Sleep is essential for learning - Powerpoint to use in tutorial time

By Stephen Thomas

Growth Mindset - Confidence powerpoint

Teach students the importance of confidence and resilience and how they develop from having a growth mindset - ready-made ppt

Asking for help: teachers - video

Video in which successful A-Level students encourage current sixth form students to ask for help when needed. Fosters the growth mindset in that support is seen as key to making progress.

Asking for help: friends - video

Short video of successful sixth form students passing on advice about the importance of friendship groups and peer-to-peer support

Mental health: the importance of good sleep - video

Getting the Grades KS5 video (6 mins): Students discuss the importance of sleep and the impact of not having enough. Stages of sleep with REM and NREM explained. Discussion activities included in the middle and at the end.

Mental Health 2 - Reducing stress - video

GETTING THE GRADES VIDEO - students share their experience of being stressed and what they did to reduce it. Includes mini-plenaries and plenary activity within the video

Mental health 3: staying mentally and physically healthy to cope with stress - video

Mental health 3: staying mentally and physically healthy to cope with stress

Emotional side of learning: feeling overwhelmed video

Video (4 mins) - successful students discuss feeling overwhelmed in Year 13 and how to cope.

Sleep and learning powerpoint

Sleep and learning powerpoint to use in sixth form tutorial time

Stress activity

Stress activity

Barriers to learning - explore what you can control

Barriers to learning - explore what you can control - tutorial exercise

Mobile phones

Procrastination 2: Phones and Social Media (4 mins) captioned video

GETTING THE GRADES VIDEO - advice about tackling social media and phones as a source of distraction. Comes with PPT activity.

Using mobile phones to support learning - video

Video (max 4 mins) in which students discuss the way mobile phones can actually be helpful for studying

Perfectionism

Perfectionism 2: Finding solutions video - new designed student voice video (8 mins)

Students share how they tried to avoid and tackle unhelpful perfectionism - features mini-plenaries and 'Think about' discussion at the end

Perfectionism - understanding whether you tend to be one - questions to ask yourself

Helpful 2 page PDF by authors of well researched book on perfectionism

Perfectionism - is it holding you back?

Powerpoint for tutors to use by Stephen Thomas

Perfectionism - trying to change - self-reflection tasks

2 activities to try out provided by authors of a well researched book into perfectionism

Pride and LGBTQ

Pride Month - origins of the annual event explained - adaptable PPT

Created to use in assembly or tutorial time - includes 2 short videos explaining origins of Pride and Rainbow shoe laces

Remembrance/Armistice Day

Remembrance Sunday - ready-made assembly/tutorial powerpoint

Contains two links to video clips to use with the PPT and explains Armistice Day, lest we forget, types of poppies (red, white, purple, black) and The Last Post

Remembrance Sunday - Video: In Flanders Fields (2 mins) poem by John McCrae

2 mins video of poem read out with WW1 footage

Safe driving

Valentines Day

Valentines Day - letter to a long time partner

Letter from to a partner who is frail and losing their memory: reflecting on what is love on Valentines day.

Why Valentine's Day?

Ready-made tutorial powerpoint