Human health & safety

PSHE

Secondary

A personal insight into living with Asperger's Syndrome

Troubled Minds is a series of four short animated films, narrated by young people who have been real-life sufferers from a range of psychological illnesses and syndromes. In this video, a seemingly well-behaved and well-performing school student, describes the emotional distress he felt as his Asperger's syndrome caused him to struggle socially at school.

Asperger's Syndrome

Teenage ex-sufferers discuss anorexia and how schools can help

Hear three teenagers, two girls and a boy, talk openly about their battle with anorexia, as staff at a school and psychiatric unit discuss how sufferers can be supported, in this human health and safety video for teachers. Anorexia is often oversimplified as an aspiration to look like models and celebrities, but it's a complex mental illness with a range of causes. Moreover, anorexia is increasingly affecting teenage boys as well as young girls. Teenagers Lindsay, Rob and Constance describe their downward spiral into anorexia, which resulted in each of them being hospitalised. They also describe the catastrophic affect this isolating illness had on their physical health, mental health and relationships with friends and family. This video also visits a psychiatric unit which deals specifically with adolescents with mental health problems, and a school which helped to support a student in their recovery from anorexia.

Battling Anorexia

A dramatised, true account of child abuse, for PSHE KS3/KS4

Watch a dramatised true story of a young girl's abuse at the hands of her mother. The girl is played by an actor in this short video suitable for Key Stage 3/4 PSHE. Secondary students can hear how her mother physically and emotionally abused her, and how she realised over time that her mother's behaviour was wrong. Now a young woman, she recounts her moving story up to the age of 11.

Child Abuse: A Girl Speaks Out

Dr Christian Jesseon teaches a lesson on health

Presenter Dr Christian Jessen, takes a lesson teaching teenagers about their own embarrassing health concerns. Dr Christian heads for a GCSE class at Lilian Baylis Technology school, in south London. Under the watchful eye of teacher Leoni Martin, Christian has an open and frank exchange with pupils about body image and bodily functions. Later he dispels some popular myths about acne, testosterone and chewing gum. He also offers some excellent advice for teachers on how to deal with embarrassing topics and illustrates how to successfully convey important health information to teenage students.

Christian Jessen

Discover two schools' creative anti-cyberbullying strategies

This KS2-KS4 lesson-planning resource shows the impacts of cyberbullying and how children can become cyberbullies. It supports Every Child Matters and addresses human health and safety, and personal and social skills. See a drama played out in a PSHE lesson at Bradon Forest School, Purton, depicting a cyberbully accused of posting a picture online without consent. ICT is also used to help create storyboards. At St Mary's C of E Primary School, Purton, the pupils create dramas to learn about cyberbullying, also making lists of their rights and responsibilities when using computers and mobile phones. On hand to provide parents, teachers and pupils with guidance on dealing with cyberbullying is Childnet Education Manager, Ellen Ferguson.

Combating Cyberbullying

Combating internet and text bullying, for primary and secondary

This classroom resource helps primary and secondary PSHE pupils learn effective ways of dealing with cyberbullying. This lesson starter addresses human health and safety and supports Every Child Matters. Cyberbulling is an issue for staff and pupils at both primary and secondary level. 20 per cent of young people claim to have had first-hand experience of bullying or threats via emails, chat rooms or texts. This video encourages classroom discussion around e-safety, helping pupils know how to respond when a secondary pupil is being cyberbullied.

Combating Cyberbullying: Suffering in Silence

Examine cyberbullying with a KS3/4 ICT classroom resource

Interviews and case studies are used to examine cyberbullying, in this lesson starter for use in Key Stage 3/4 PSHE classes. Secondary students can learn what cyberbullying is and how it can affect people. There are also interviews with experts and a case study of a girl who was bullied outside school, in this classroom resource.

Cyberbullying and Teenagers

A girl talks about her eating disorders

Troubled Minds is a series of short animations narrated by young people who have suffered from a range of psychological illnesses and syndromes. In this programme, recovered annorexic Nicole describes the dangerous eating disorders that once threatened her life. Nicole talks openly about her feelings of not belonging and the challenges she faced in deciding to overcome this disorder.

Eating Disorders

A KS3/4 video on how diet changes when following a fitness regime

Help secondary pupils explore the links between science and fitness in this Key Stage 3/4 classroom video for PSHE and science lessons, where food expert Stefan Gates meets a triathlete to discuss his training diet. The video is a useful scientific illustration of the effect of different foods on the body and how the amount of food we need to stay healthy can vary considerably depending on lifestyle. Gastronuts presenter Stefan Gates meets triathlete Matt Sharp to find out about the relationship between diet and fitness. A triathlon is a punishing combination of cycling, running and swimming, and Matt has to train at least thirty hours a week. Stefan is amazed by the amount Matt eats in a day but his diet is scientifically worked out to provide not only the necessary protein, calcium, fibre and vitamins to keep his body in peak condition but also the carbohydrate needed to provide the energy for so much intense exercise. The video fits into a detailed lesson plan for secondary science lessons at Key Stage 3 and 4 and should prompt discussion, based on scientific evidence, about the effects of diet on health.

Eating to Win

Thinking about the scientific link between health and diet

Food adventurer Stefan Gates gets pupils thinking about the science linking their health and diet by preparing a crispy worm salad, in a video designed for use in Key Stage 2, 3 and 4 science and PSHE lessons. Gastronuts presenter Stefan Gates prepares and eats a salad using crispy worms, jellyfish and giant ants. Stefan makes the point that although people may eat very different foods around the world, they still contain essential nutrients like protein and vitamins. Stefan then explains how some foods are healthier than others, and he wonders if there's ever any reason why certain foods should be banned. This introduction to the idea of choice and restriction of food, and how diet and nutrition are linked to health, can be used to encourage primary and secondary pupils to think about healthy and unhealthy foods and to debate how much control there should be over the food we eat.

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