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Youth Social Action Starter Pack
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Youth Social Action Starter Pack

This YSA starter pack contains the key resources needed to plan and deliver YSA in your setting.
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This YSA starter pack contains the key resources needed to plan and deliver YSA in your setting.

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Teamwork Guide (for educators)

This guide explains the importance of teamwork when young people are working together.
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This guide's main aim is to help you understand the importance of teamwork when young people are working together on a group project. It gives you an overview of the different departments in organisations and the various roles young people can play in these departments. It explores the different stages of teamwork, such as forming, storming, morning, performing, and adjourning, and applies these to the five steps of Youth Social Action.

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Grantee 24-25 Resource Pack

This Grantee 24-25 Resource Pack contains the key resources grantees need to plan and deliver YSA.
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This Grantee 24-25 Resource Pack contains the key resources grantees need to plan and deliver YSA.

Inclusion and Diversity Snapshot
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Inclusion and Diversity Snapshot

This Snapshot provides an overview of all the resources, guides, and lesson plans to equip teachers for effective awareness and teaching.
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Diversity and inclusion help children learn to empathise with people who are different from them. It makes all young people better learners, allowing them to understand various subjects from multiple points of view. By having access to educational content, each child is able to fully participate in their own learning, which provides them with the skills and resources for later life. At each key stage, we have used the National Curriculum, providing links and examples of how inclusion and diversity can be delivered through a range of subjects or as bespoke lessons as part of the inspire and inform steps of Youth Social Action.

Teaching Youth Social Action (Inclusion & Diversity KS 2)
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Teaching Youth Social Action (Inclusion & Diversity KS 2)

This resource contains all the lesson plans to teach Inclusion and Diversity YSA to KS 2.
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On this resource page, you will find the following lessons and guide: Teaching Youth Social Action Guide Lesson 1: How is our planet's geography diverse? Lesson 2: What makes people unique? Lesson 3: How can we celebrate our diversity? Lesson 4: How can sporting events connect us together? Lesson 5: How can inclusion promote diversity? Lesson 6: How can we be inclusive towards others?

Poverty Snapshot
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Poverty Snapshot

This Snapshot provides an overview of all the resources, guides, and lesson plans to equip teachers for effective awareness and teaching.
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Schools have a responsibility to tackle poverty and promote equality of opportunities. 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. Using the National Curriculum, we have linked as many opportunities as possible to deliver poverty through a range of different subject areas. These opportunities can be used to either deliver the topic as a stand-alone or through cross-curricular planning with a number of different subject areas, depending on the focus of the school.

Lesson Plans for Teaching Poverty (KS 2)
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Lesson Plans for Teaching Poverty (KS 2)

This resource contains all the lesson plans to teach Poverty to KS 2.
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On this resource page, you will find the following lessons and guide: Overview of Lessons Lesson 1: What is poverty? Lesson 2: What are the different forms of poverty? Lesson 3: How does poverty affect young people in school? Lesson 4: How can you tackle poverty at your school?

Teaching Climate Change (KS 2)
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Teaching Climate Change (KS 2)

This resource contains all the lesson plans to teach Climate Change to KS 2.
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This resource contains the following lessons: Delivering Youth Social Action Lesson 1: The main purpose of this lesson is to be able to describe the biodiversity found in Antarctica and allow the young people to learn about different elements regulating the climate as well as the role of biodiversity in sustaining health and life. Lesson 2: The aim of the session is for young people to understand the role of the glaciers in the greenhouse effect and how greater CO2 emissions through the impact of human activities Lesson 3: In this session, young people will look at the effects that the melting of glaciers has on the Antarctic food web.
Lesson 4: The aim of this session is to develop the skills to present an argument for the protection of Antarctica.

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Aims

Youth Social Action (YSA)

Refers to activities that young people do to make a positive difference to others while developing key skills and attributes and having fun. YSA can take place in various contexts (i.e. at home, schools, youth clubs etc) and can include volunteering, fundraising, campaigning or supporting peers. We believe social action can play an essential role: in young lives, the success of a school, the local community or more.

Resource Hub

Our Resource Hub aims to act as a Youth Social Action search engine, offering tailored results to inspire and guide. The hub hosts a wide variety of resources, including our own Youth Social Action Toolkit, case studies, research reports, and helpful resources from other reputable organisations in the sector.

How to use

How to use

Our Resource Hub aims to act as a Youth Social Action search engine, offering tailored results to inspire and guide. The hub hosts a wide variety of resources, including our own Youth Social Action Toolkit, case studies, research reports, and helpful resources from other reputable organisations in the sector.

To find appropriate resources, use the filter feature to select the relevant options. You can filter by key stage (1-5), YSA theme (e.g. poverty), or a particular skill (e.g. communication). You can also filter by resource owner (Ormiston Trust or external organisation) and resource type, such as lesson plans. If you know what you are looking for, you can use the search bar.

To save or download resources, please sign up for a free account. In your user area, you can organise your saved items for quick and easy access. On the resource results page, you can save or download multiple resource quickly by using the tickbox feature.

Youth Social Action Toolkit

Youth Social Action Toolkit

Our Youth Social Action Toolkit has been carefully developed by industry professionals with input from young people to guide school leaders, support staff, and young people through a Youth Social Action project. Our curriculum guides clearly outline how YSA can be integrated into the curriculum of schools with limited time.

 

We don’t gatekeep – by sharing our sector knowledge and resources, we aim to enrich the lives of all young people by fostering skills development, improving agency and wellbeing, and promoting active citizenship.

Inspire

The first step of the YSA process is to be inspired by an issue you care about! Check out our inspirational case studies on what you could do!

Explore

The second step of the YSA process is to explore your options! You‘ll need to research the issue that inspired you to take action to understand how you can help.

Ready to start planning your project? Access our Youth Social Action Toolkit here.

Plan

The third step of the YSA process is to plan your project! Lucky for you, we have a Project Planning Template for that.

Act

The fourth step of the YSA process is to carry out your plan! This is when the physical activities involved like fundraising, campaigning, and volunteering kick off.

Reflect

The fifth and final step of the YSA process is to reflect! Looking back at your plan, did you achieve your aims?  What went well and what didn’t go so well? Can you sustain your project? Or did you take steps to ensure further projects aren’t needed?