Primary teaching resources

Our free, easy-to-use teaching resources help children aged 5 to 11 to look at the world from a humanitarian point of view.

These curriculum-linked activities, sessions and teaching packages are ideal for PSHE, Citizenship, English, Art, Geography and informal learning time. They help primary learners develop empathy with others, learn to help others, develop their resilience and gain many other life skills.


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Students returning to school

Back to better

Age: 5-18

Type:

Subjects: PSHE, Tutor time

Activities to record your journey back to better, to resilience and recovery

  • Kindness
  • Disasters and emergencies
Student looks stressed while taking an exam

Wellbeing activities: managing stress

Age: 7-18

Type: Activities

Subjects: PSHE

Educational activities for young people and children ages 7 to 8 exploring what personal resources they have to manage and understand stress and anxiety.

  • Kindness
  • Home learning resources
Blue Monday mental health advice

Wellbeing activities: coping skills and resilience

Age: 7-18

Type: Activities

Subjects: PSHE

Wellbeing activities for children and teenagers aged 7 to 18 feeling anxious, stressed, and lonely. Learn coping skills and build resilience to support wellbeing.

  • Kindness
  • Home learning resources
Children in a classroom raise their hands.

Talking with children and young people about race and racism

Age: 3-18

Type: Guidance and activities

Subjects: Citizenship

A free primary and secondary teaching resource about how to support and talk to children and young people about race, racism and anti-racism.

  • Kindness
  • Humanitarianism and the Red Cross

Understanding people's experience of migration

Age: 10-16, ks2, ks3, ks4

Type: Activities

Subjects: PSHE, SMSC, Citizenship

Activities to help children and young people develop empathy and understanding towards people with migration experience. Suitable for primary and secondary school students ages 7 to 18.

  • Kindness
  • Refugees and migration
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Child Safety Week: kindness, safety and first aid at home

Age: 7-18

Type: Activities

Subjects: PSHE

Coronavirus activities for children and young people on safety, kindness and first aid.

  • Kindness
Young boy holds an ice pack to his head.

First Aid Champions

Age: 5-18

Type: Lesson plan, teaching package, videos

Subjects: PSHE, Tutor time

A range of activities to help children and young people learn first aid at home during the coronavirus crisis.

  • First aid and the bystander effect
  • Home learning resources
Two sisters learning first aid at home on a tablet

First aid and kindness

Age: 5-18

Type: Activities, teaching package, films

Subjects: PSHE

Activities to support learning first aid skills and showing how these skills can be used in everyday life with kindness and confidence.

  • Kindness
  • First aid and the bystander effect
Graphic of two historic Red Cross posters half coloured in

Kindness colouring activities

Age: 7-18

Type: Quick activities

Subjects: PSHE, History

Use colouring activities and posters from the archives to learn more about the British Red Cross and its history of kindness.

  • Kindness
  • Home learning resources
Photograph of a large drawing by children of a rainbow and the words "Thank you NHS - Thank you workers" during the coronavirus outbreak.

Help students build resilience and ease stress

Age: 5-19

Type: Activities

Subjects: PSHE, Tutor time

Primary and secondary educational resource to support students and help them build resilience and ease stress that might arise during challenging times at home or school.

  • Kindness
  • Home learning resources