Secondary teaching resources

Our free teaching resources help young people aged 11 to 19 to examine the world around them from a humanitarian perspective and learn about topics related to the work of the Red Cross.

These curriculum-linked activities, session plans and teaching packages are ideal for subjects such as PSHE, Citizenship, Geography, History and informal learning time. Learners gain new perspectives, develop new life skills and develop understanding, values and critical thinking.

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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.

Group hold placards during a demonstration. Thousands of people gathered outside the Parliament Square in London to protest against the killing of George Floyd

Black Lives Matter: resources for young people

Age: 11-18

Type: Quick activities

Subjects: PSHE, Tutor time

Secondary teaching resource helping young people to understand the Black Lives Matter movement and listen to other’s experience

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.

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.

Graphic of two historic Red Cross posters half coloured in

Coronavirus 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.

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.

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

Coronavirus: how to build resilience and ease tensions

Age: 5-19

Type: Activities

Subjects: PSHE, Tutor time

Activities to develop resilience and help ease household tensions during the challenging coronavirus crisis.

A close-up of a young woman's hands holding cut-out paper hearts in different colours and sizes.

Five activities of kindness and resilience

Age: 7-18

Type: Activities

Subjects: PSHE, Tutor time

A range of activities designed to develop resilience and encourage kindness including topics on routine building, coping mechanisms and acts of kindness.