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Make every lesson count with Teach Starter! Our expertly created teaching resources and classroom solutions help you save time, reduce planning stress and feel more confidant that every lesson will be engaging, impactful and ready to go! 🚀
Because when you have reliable resources at your fingertips, you can focus on what matters most - creating those "aha" moments that spark a love of learning for every student in your class.💡📚✨
Help your pupils to explore the concept of safe and unsafe environments, feelings, emotions and when/who to ask for help with this My Safe Relationships flipbook. Each worksheet in the flipbook is designed to get pupils to consider aspects of safe relationships, what makes a trusted adult and who their trusted adults are, by writing or drawing their ideas in the boxes provided.
The worksheets in the My Safe Relationships flipbook cover the following topics:
A safe and trusted adult is someone who?
List actions or words that are safe and unsafe
The different emotions you feel when you are feeling unsafe or uncomfortable
Characteristics of a trusted adult
My trusted web diagram
Identifying feeling unsafe, finding a trusted adult and what words you use to ask for help.
The My Safe Relationships flipbook template is easy and straightforward to use. Simply download and print pages 1-8 for each pupil. Have your pupils cut along the dotted line on each page and then stack the pages. Begin with the largest page at the bottom and stack the rest from largest to smallest, then secure the pages at the top with staples to complete each flipbook.
Help your pupils learn how to ask for help with this engaging 51ºÚÁÏ poster set. This set of five posters provides pupils with a step-by-step process that guides them through asking for help clearly and concisely. The simple and attractive posters make it easy for pupils to think carefully about exactly what they need help with, and the specific actions they need to take to get the appropriate help from the right person.
This set of five helpful classroom posters show the following advice:
I Can Ask for Help
Reasons to Ask for Help
People to Ask for Help
Ways to Ask for Help
How to Ask for Help
Why not display the set of posters in your classroom, to remind pupils what to do to get help, or use them as a starting point for whole class or group discussion on overcoming challenges, to help create an effecting learning environment?
Discuss safe and unsafe situations with your pupils in an engaging way with this set of scenario task cards. The Safe or Unsafe Scenario task cards are designed to cover the basics of keeping safe and what to do if your pupils feel unsafe or uncomfortable, whilst promoting discussion on personal safety and safe interactions. Each card has a scenario, and the pupils are asked: Is this safe or unsafe?
These scenario cards can be used in a variety of ways, including the following:
Use in a small group and have pupils pick a card and then discuss why they think the scenario is safe or unsafe,
As a whole class, the teacher reads out the scenario, then pupils either put thumbs up for safe or thumbs down for unsafe and then discuss their choices,
As a small group, sort the cards into safe and unsafe piles and then pupils write down what they would do in each unsafe scenario.
Help your pupils identify their support network and trusted adults with this interactive activity. The activity starts off by prompting pupils to think about their support network, including trusted adults such as parents, teachers and carers. You then guide them through a range of everyday scenarios they might encounter, mainly in a school setting.
Each scenario comes with a happy emoji and a not-so-happy emoji. Pupils decide how they would feel in each scenario, and then choose the emoji that best mirrors their emotions for each one. By presenting these scenarios that mimic real-life situations, pupils can practise applying the concept of personal boundaries, and develop their social and emotional learning.
Teach your pupils about personal space with this Am I A Space Invader Personal Space poster and worksheet set.
The poster provides pupils with the following questions, they can ask themselves to ensure they aren’t a ‘personal space invader’:
Do they look worried or confused?
Do they look mad, sad, or nervous?
Did they look down or away?
Did they turn away from you?
Did they have their arms crossed?
Did they move away from you?
The accompanying worksheets then provide pupils with real-life scenarios and ask them to decide if the person in the example is a personal space invader. When the pupils have completed the worksheet activities, the engaging outer space themed poster can be displayed in your classroom, to remind pupils what personal space is and how to respect other people’s personal space.
Help your pupils master personal space and boundaries concepts with this engaging flipbook activity. Pupils fill out the activity sheets to identify what appropriate personal space looks like and how to respect other people’s personal space, and assemble their completed flipbook to give them a useful reminder on personal space.
The flipbook covers a range of important concepts including:
The idea of a personal space bubble and its significance
The importance of setting and respecting boundaries
Practical ways to practise maintaining boundaries
Self-evaluation: Am I invading someone else’s space?
Understanding what constitutes healthy boundaries
Identifying and appreciating the role of people in their community in maintaining personal space.
The Personal Space flipbook template is easy and straightforward to use. Simply download and print pages 1-8 for each pupil. Have your pupils cut along the dotted line on each page and then stack the pages. Begin with the largest page at the bottom and stack the rest from largest to smallest, then secure the pages at the top with staples to complete each flipbook.
Teach your class about personal space with these space-themed classroom posters.
Helping children understand the concept of ‘personal space’ is crucial for their social interactions and development. Understanding personal space also helps children recognise situations that may make them uncomfortable or unsafe. They learn to identify and communicate their boundaries, empowering them to protect themselves and seek help.
This set of space-themed posters use simple outer-space themed images to clearly explain personal space and reinforce positive interactions. The set includes three different posters with the following headings:
Personal Space - Personal space is the amount of room each person has to feel safe and comfortable,
Talking Space - When we talk to friends we need to respect personal space and use ‘talking space’,
Respect - When we respect personal space our friends feel: comfortable, happy, safe.
Why not display these attractive Personal Space posters around your classroom to remind pupils how to respect other people’s personal space and safeguard their own, or use them as a stimulus for whole class discussion on personal space as part of a lesson activity?
Help your pupils learn how and when to ask for help with this easy to use 51ºÚÁÏ activity workbook.
Many children find it challenging to understand when, who and how to ask for help. This workbook activity will guide them through the following topics:
Reasons to ask for help
Phrases to use when asking for help
Ways to ask for help
People to ask for help.
Pupils work through their own version of the workbook and fill in the pages with information useful for, and personalised to, them. The booklet has numbered pages to print off and collate to make each pupil’s own workbook they can refer to and update, as a reminder of productive ways to ask for help and the trusted adults they can go to for assistance and support.
This I Can Ask for Help workbook can also be used as part of a whole class 51ºÚÁÏ activity to promote discussion with your pupils on getting help and support in a safe and effective way.
Help pupils identify the body signs that indicate they are feeling unsafe with this cut and paste 51ºÚÁÏ worksheet. It is important that children understand that physical changes in their bodies may indicate that they are feeling unsafe. Once they have identified this, they can then take the appropriate action to remove themselves from any harm.
This worksheet activity can be used as part of your lessons about staying safe at home and in the community. The early warning signs demonstrated in this worksheet include:
My head feels sore and hot
I feel like crying
My shoulders tense up
My heart beats faster
My hands feel sweaty
I feel sick in the tummy
My legs feel wobbly
I need to use the toilet.
The pupils cut out the warning signs and paste them into the correct box around the child’s body. This one sheet 51ºÚÁÏ worksheet activity (with an answer key) can be used to promote class discussion with your pupils on how their bodies may react when they feel unsafe, and what they could do in unsafe situations.
An online safety poster to help pupils understand correct online behaviour. This clear and helpful online safety poster provides pupils with easy to follow advice about keeping their personal details safe and how to avoid putting themselves at risk online.
Advice in the poster includes never sharing your:
Full name – use your first name or nickname only
A photo of yourself – use a fun avatar character instead
Your phone number – keep your contact online only
Your address – this is not safe to share online or offline
Your school name – this identifies where you are and when
Passwords – passwords are for your eyes only, always.
You can display this poster in your classroom or computing areas, or even print it off for pupils to keep as advice to refer to when online at home.
Check out more online safety posters by Teach Starter here:
Keeping safe online poster
Don’t be a Bystander - online safety poster.
Help pupils to understand cyberbullying and how they can act to help when someone they know is a victim of cyberbullying with this Don’t be a Bystander - online safety poster. This clear and helpful cyberbullying poster provides pupils with easy to follow advice on not being the bystander when they see cyberbullying taking place, highlighting the situation and gaining help from the appropriate trusted adults and providing support to the victim of bullying.
Advice included in the poster:
Take action. Ask the victim if they need your help
Give words of support to the victim
Alert a teacher, parent or other adult
Put yourself in the victim’s shoes, try to understand them
Encourage the victim to find help from someone they trust
Don’t give up, talk to more people. The victim needs you.
You can display this poster in your classroom or computing areas, or even print it off for pupils to keep as advice to refer to when online at home.
Check out more online safety posters by Teach Starter here:
Keeping safe online poster
Keep your details safe - online safety poster.
Help pupils to stay safe online with this online safety poster. This clear and helpful online safety poster provides pupils with easy to follow advice, with dos and don’ts and what to watch out for, to keep them safe online.
Advice included in the poster:
Always keep your passwords secret
Think twice before you post anything on the Internet. Remember, once something is posted or shared, it’s very difficult to remove
Always be polite and respectful. If you wouldn’t say it in real life, then don’t say it online
Ask your parents before giving out your name, address or any other personal information online
Don’t open messages from people you don’t know
Don’t accept special offers or deals that seem too good to be true
Talk to your parents if you feel uncomfortable with what you see on the Internet
Be careful who you trust online. If you don’t know the person in real life, then ask a parent before you become friends with them online.
You can display this poster in your classroom or computing areas, or even print it off for pupils to keep as advice to refer to when online at home.
Check out more online safety posters by Teach Starter here:
Don’t be a Bystander - online safety poster
Keep your details safe - online safety poster.
A worksheet for Upper KS2 pupils to learn about managing anxiety and combating anxious feelings. This helpful and structured worksheet is designed to help pupils with their mental health and wellbeing by: understanding what anxiety is, recognising how anxiety affects us mentally, physically and behaviourally, and managing anxious feelings using appropriate calm down strategies.
The Managing Anxiety worksheet has been designed to assist pupils with managing anxious feelings about a particular situation. It encourages them to reflect upon their anxious feelings and develop an action plan for dealing with them.
Pupils use the worksheet to:
Identify a situation that is making them anxious,
Give their anxiety a rating from 1-10,
Explain how this anxiety is affecting their thoughts, bodies and behaviour,
Consider the worst possible outcome of the situation that is causing the anxiety,
Evaluate the likelihood of this outcome.
Pupils are also asked to write down positive self-talk statements that they can use to help manage their anxious thoughts, note down strategies they can use to reduce their anxious feelings and record one possible outcome of the situation that does not make them feel anxious. Encouraging your pupils to articulate and record their feelings and concerns with this helpful worksheet could help them to become more self-aware and evaluate how they are managing challenging situations, so why not give it a try with your young learners?
Teach your pupils to understand and manage anxious feelings with this informative What is Anxiety? classroom display poster. This attractive visual aid helps young learners understand what anxiety actually is; how it affects our minds, bodies and actions; and how it can be managed with a range of simple strategies.
Some of the strategies included in the poster are:
Breathing slowly and deeply,
Thinking about a happy place,
Talking about your feelings,
Using positive self-talk.
The What is Anxiety? poster can be used in a range of different ways:
Display the poster in your classroom to remind your young learners what anxiety is, and how they can manage the effects of anxiety.
Use the poster as a starting point for whole class or small group discussion, by asking the pupils to explore what types of situations might make them feel anxious, and what they might do to manage these feelings.
Print the black and white version of the poster for pupils to complete as a colouring in activity, to build their knowledge of strategies to manage the effects of anxiety.
Self-reflection and class discussion prompts to help pupils think about their sense of wellbeing and what contributes to their state of mind and feelings. The wellbeing activity prompts can also provide a useful insight into pupils’ behaviour and learning. The wellbeing questions cover a range of topics related to physical, mental and emotional health, such as:
gratitude,
empathy,
emotional intelligence,
resilience,
lifestyle habits.
These activities for wellbeing can be used as whole class daily discussion prompts or to build emotional intelligence with small groups or individual pupils.
A weather-themed How are you feeling? poster and flash cards to help pupils verbalise how they are feeling with easy weather-themed pictures and characters. The attractive and accessible weather characters, such as sunny, rainy, windy, cloudy and stormy, aid them in identifying and articulating their feelings and emotions.
Included in this feeling words pack:
How are you feeling? Poster (with a scene)
How are you feeling? Poster (without a scene)
How are you feeling? Flashcards
Weather Character Cut-outs
Help pupils to recognise and identify their feelings and emotions with this colourful How Are You Feeling Today? classroom display poster. This poster is designed to help young learners to develop their emotional literacy, by recognising their emotions and emotional state, and learning the vocabulary needed to articulate how they are feeling.
This feelings poster provides a visual representation of sixteen different emotional states. By viewing this poster regularly, pupils will not only increase their emotional vocabulary but will also come to recognise the facial and non-verbal cues that accompany each state.
The emotions included on the poster are: happy, surprised, tired, sad, excited, nervous, bored, angry, shy, energetic, frustrated, thoughtful, worried, scared, sick and silly.
Help pupils to build their emotional literacy by recognising and identifying their feelings and emotions with this interactive match-up activity. Using emotion flashcards with pictures for feelings and emotions, pupils match up the facial expressions on the cards to a range of emotions human beings regularly experience. Emotions and feelings covered in the cards include: happy, surprised, tired, sad, excited, nervous, bored, angry, shy, energetic, frustrated, calm, worried, scared, sick, silly, hot, cold.
These feelings flashcards can be used for a range of activities for the whole class, groups/pairs or individual learning.
As a whole class, encourage your pupils to share a time when they felt a particular feeling or emotion, in groups or pairs, pupils can use the cards to explore the feelings and emotions by playing snap or memory games.
Individual learners can also independently match the feelings and emotions images with the correct labels.
Help pupils to develop their emotional literacy by understanding different emotions with this set of five emotions themed worksheets. Each worksheet helps young learners to understand different emotions by recognising facial expressions and non-verbal clues by matching them up to particular emotions. The pack includes five worksheets with different activities to complete: Emotions cut and paste activity, Emotions trace and match activity, Emotions wordsearch, Emotions I Spy activity and an Emotions crossword puzzle.
Emotions vocabulary covered in the Emotions Worksheet Pack include:
Happy
Scared
Proud
Calm
Frustrated
Nervous
Excited
Angry
Sad
When pupils have completed the activities in the pack you can also extend their learning and emotional development further by getting them to recall different scenarios when they have felt each of the main emotions covered in the worksheets, and discuss these with the class or in small groups.
Help pupils effectively communicate how they are feeling with this emotion wheel. Work on emotional literacy with your young learners with this emotion wheel template, to aid them in understanding and exploring their feelings, and communicating them clearly.
This feelings wheel activity, including a list of emotions to discuss, gives pupils the opportunity to share and become more confident, and can help to reduce any anxiety and frustration they may be feeling.
To use the wheel, simply print it onto card and then fasten it together with a paper fastener. When pupils need a bit of support in expressing their emotions, hand them the emotions wheel and they can turn the wheel until they see the emotion they are feeling.