Secondary PSHE

KS3 • Ages 11-14

  • Teacher Support: Supporting care-experienced children

    This teacher resource is split into two collections of short films: Teacher training videos (in which experts offer advice on how to support care-experienced young people), and animations featuring real testimonies from care-experienced young people, told by the young people themselves.

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      KS3/GCSE PSHE • Ages 11-16
  • News and media literacy resources

    Discover what media literacy is and how to teach media literacy with these downloadable interactive resources.

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      KS3/GCSE PSHE • Ages 11-16
  • Time to talk about...

    Wes Nelson, Katie Thistleton, Tom Grennan, Zara McDermott and Roman Kemp discuss their experiences with mental health issues, alongside reconstructions of real calls to Childline. The films are intended to help start classroom discussions around mental health and offer expert advice.

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      KS3/GCSE PSHE • Ages 11-16
  • Financial Literacy Classroom Challenges

    With the help of money expert Iona Bain and a host of famous faces, these resources for secondary schools explore key financial literacy skills including budgeting, borrowing, and saving.

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      KS3/GCSE PSHE • Ages 11-16
  • Stories about teenage mental health

    A series of powerful animated short films explaining through personal testimony the experiences of teenagers dealing with mental health issues.

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      KS3/GCSE PSHE • Ages 11-16
  • Talking Periods

    Euella Jackson and young people from across the UK discuss the variety of experiences and misconceptions around periods and the menstrual cycle.

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      KS3/GCSE PSHE • Ages 11-16
  • Real stories of racism in the UK

    This powerful collection of short animated films uses real testimony from young people of colour to explore personal experiences of racism, bullying and isolation. These are real stories of racism in the UK.

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      KS3/GCSE PSHE • Ages 11-16
  • Real life stories from children living with illness

    A collection of powerful short films where children explain, in their own words, what it is like to live with various illnesses and allergies.

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      KS3 PSHE • Ages 11-14
  • An exploration of mental health issues

    A collection of short animated films that use powerful personal testimony to explore mental health issues from the perspective of young people.

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      KS3 PSHE • Ages 11-14
  • Real life stories of young people fleeing their homelands

    Five animated stories giving a unique insight into the lives of young people who have sought refuge in the UK, told by the children themselves.

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      KS3 PSHE • Ages 11-14
  • How to administer first aid

    A series of short films presented by Dr Emeka Okorocha which explore some key skills for administering first aid.

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      KS3 PSHE • Ages 11-14
  • Financial Literacy

    Steph McGovern breaks down some key areas of study for the topic of financial literacy. These short films will provide a good understanding of credit and debt, pensions and how interest and taxation works.

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      KS3/GCSE PSHE • Ages 11-16
  • Issues affecting young people

    Drama series for secondary schools exploring alcohol abuse, poverty, sexuality and the pressure to have sex, as well as the impact of social media.

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      KS3/GCSE PSHE • Ages 11-16
  • Your Body, Your Image

    A series of films that bust body image myths and investigate the commercialisation of body image ideals, promoting debate in the classroom.

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      KS3/GCSE PSHE • Ages 11-16
  • Growth mindset case studies

    A collection of short films that offer case studies of young people demonstrating a growth mindset. Each story introduces us to one of the five steps to wellbeing.

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      KS3 PSHE • Ages 11-14
  • Body Matters

    Series of observational documentaries looking at the physiological and psychological changes that happen to young people as they strive to alter their appearance.

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      KS3/GCSE PSHE • Ages 11-16
  • Domestic Violence

    Stacey Dooley goes behind closed doors and speaks to the now younger face of domestic violence.

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      KS3/GCSE PSHE • Ages 11-16
  • Online Grooming

    A series of clips from the docudrama 'Murder Games: The Life and Death of Breck Bednar', telling the true story of Breck Bednar, a 14-year-old boy who was lured to his death after being groomed online.

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      KS3/GCSE PSHE • Ages 11-16
  • Children at Work

    Two hundred million children around the world go to work every day. Children at Work explores the lives of these children and their experiences.

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      KS3/GCSE PSHE • Ages 11-16
  • Young Legal Eagles

    In this series for schools, young people from UK state schools take on the roles of barrister, defendant, witness, jury, court reporter and court artist.

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      KS3/GCSE PSHE • Ages 11-16

GCSE • Ages 14-16

  • Ros Atkins On...

    This collection of BBC News explainer videos could be used for helping students understand complex topical stories.

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      GCSE PSHE • Ages 14-16
  • Relationships and Sex Education

    Documentary series following YouTuber Mimi Missfit as she takes seven teenagers to Holland to find out how they teach relationships and sex education.

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      GCSE PSHE • Ages 14-16
  • Football, Prince William and Our Mental Health

    In each film we hear from a different person who discusses how their mental health has been affected in different ways and how they look after their mental wellbeing. In some of the films the person discusses their mental health with HRH The Duke of Cambridge.

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      GCSE PSHE • Ages 14-16
  • Digital Literacy

    This series of short films for secondary schools uses animation and real life case studies to explore key issues around digital literacy and online safety.

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      GCSE PSHE • Ages 14-16
  • Coercive control

    A specially-written drama telling the story of the relationship between Rachel and Alex, which ends with an accusation of coercive control.

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      GCSE PSHE • Ages 14-16
  • Sexual harassment

    A specially adapted BBC Three drama exploring an accusation of sexual harassment and an employment tribunal hearing.

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      GCSE PSHE • Ages 14-16
  • Stephen Lawrence: The murder that changed a nation

    A series of short films from a BBC documentary examining the murder of Stephen Lawrence that explore identity, diversity, institutional racism and justice.

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      GCSE PSHE • Ages 14-16
  • Drugs - real life stories

    The science of how drugs affect the body is explored through real-life stories.

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      GCSE PSHE • Ages 14-16
  • Coping with problems

    In these powerful clips, five young people talk to Aled Haydn Jones from Radio 1's The Surgery to share their problems ranging from anorexia to depression, and OCD to self-harm.

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      GCSE PSHE • Ages 14-16
  • The Glasgow Girls' Stories

    In 2005, the lives of seven 15-year-old schoolgirls from Drumchapel High School in Glasgow changed forever when one of them, Agnesa Mursulaj, was removed in a dawn raid carried out by UK immigration authorities.

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      GCSE PSHE • Ages 14-16
  • Growing Up Poor

    This series follows teenagers dealing with the pressures of growing up with one similarity - they are all surviving on under £10 a day.

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      GCSE PSHE • Ages 14-16
  • PSHCrossing Divides - Stories about bringing people together in a fragmented world

    A series of clips from the BBC’s ‘Crossing Divides’ project looking at the similarities and the differences between people from a range of backgrounds.

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      GCSE PSHE • Ages 14-16