Youth Social Action Resource Hub

This curriculum map provides links to integrate the topic of Poverty within the National Curriculum at Key Stage 1.   It can be read to obtain an overview of the connections made with the National Curriculum. It can also inform the planning of activities that will teach social action skills or inform future social action planning.

Exploring the 5 step process through questioning

This overview provides background knowledge for staff to understand the context of poverty and how it affects pupils. The second part guides the approach of social action teaching on poverty.

An overview of all the resources available from the toolkit

Schools have a responsibility to tackle poverty and promote equality of opportunity. Teaching young people about poverty can empower them to understand the subject and its impact, motivating them to act within a school, community, or city. At each key stage, we have used the National Curriculum, providing links and examples of how poverty and its impact can be delivered through a range of subjects or as bespoke lessons as part of the inspire and explore steps of Youth Social Action.

Lesson 1: Understanding and recognising mental health wellbeing in yourself and others. Lesson 2: Enable young people to understand factors which can contribute to mental health with strategies on how they can start to take care of themselves. Lesson 3: Understand daily factors which can have an impact on us mentally. Lesson 4: Learning about simple self-care techniques, including being physically active. As well as developing emotional literacy and resilience in young people to understand feelings. Lesson 5: Continuing the focus on emotional literacy and resilience to help young people understand how they are feeling and what they can do when things do not feel right. With a particular focus on Art and Music.

This resource on mental health focuses on the importance of mental health and well-being. It maps opportunities as to when mental health can be delivered across the national curriculum with suggested activities.