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.

Dad and son learning at a desk at home

Kindness activity pack

Age: 5-14

Type: Quick activity

Subjects: PSHE

A free home learning pack which includes activities around kindness, coping, recognising feelings and learning new skills.

  • Kindness
  • Home learning resources
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Tackling loneliness

Age: 7-18

Type:

Subjects: PSHE, Citizenship, Tutor time

Curriculum linked resources with activities for primary and secondary learners about loneliness and feeling lonely

  • Humanitarianism and the Red Cross
  • Kindness
  • Home learning resources
The Snowman, Snowdog and a little boy flying through the air

The Snowman and The Snowdog kindness calendar

Age: 5-11

Type: Quick activity

Subjects: PSHE, Cross-curricular, SMSC

Children are encouraged to learn about and practise kindness this December with the The Snowman™ and The Snowdog in our new kindness calendar.

  • Humanitarianism and the Red Cross
  • Kindness
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
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Wellbeing activities Managing stress

Age: 7-18

Type: Activities

Subjects: PSHE

Activities linked to video animation designed to improve wellbeing, help manage stress and understand helpful resources

  • Kindness
  • Home learning resources
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Wellbeing activities being kind to yourself

Age: 7-18

Type: Activities

Subjects: PSHE

Activities linked to video animation designed to improve wellbeing, loneliness and anxiety.

  • Kindness
  • Home learning resources
Young people talking about experiences to camera

Sharing experiences of empathy and resilience

Age: 7-18

Type: Activities

Subjects: Citizenship, PSHE

Resources for children and young people for home learning, using the experiences of other young people aimed at building empathy, understanding and resilience through storytelling.

  • Kindness
  • Refugees and migration
  • Home learning resources
Children talking to their dad about the kindness calendar

Summer of kindness calendar

Age: 7-18

Type: Activities

Keep children and young people entertained during the summer holidays with the summer of kindness calendar.

  • Kindness
A boy of around ten years old sits at a table drawing while his father sits next to him.

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
Young person taking part in a refugee art project. Drawing 'human together'

Refugee Week: imagine a kinder world

Age: 7-18

Type: Activities

Subjects: PSHE, SMSC, Citizenship

Primary and secondary resource helping learners to build empathy, increase understanding and learn about the stories of refugees and their journey.

  • Kindness
  • Refugees and migration