Resources for Community

A set of nine teaching activities developed by Learning for Life that will enable young people to discover what values are and why they are important. The back of the booklet contains all the resources you need to carry out the activities.

Becoming value-able

Who are you?  Who do you want to be? A teaching resource developed by Learning for Life that will enable young people to discover what character is needed to be successful in life as well as a successful member of society.

Character_Building

Poster to accompany the “Character Building” resource.

Character Building – Poster

A pack designed to compliment the UK Citizenship Education curriculum. It contains activities that Citizenship Educators can use with their students to discuss and discover what it means to be a good citizen as well as a good citizen with character.

Citizenship_and_Character

This is a primary school programme for nine to eleven year olds which helps pupils grow, change and respond positively to opportunities, challenges and responsibilities in life. Pupils complete a specially designed poster template with a personal reflection section.

http://www.learningforlife.org.uk/primary/index.aspx

An overview of UK organisations young people can join to help develop themselves.

Join This

A Resource from: ASC. A fact sheet with full of details about what a community worker does and how to become one. Similar factsheets about other jobs that have a positive impact can be downloaded from:

http://www.askwhatif.co.uk/what-we-do/download-a-career-guide/

A website full of resources and also publishes a journal of values education – CAVE is an organisation that aims to alleviate social problems without indoctrination. The website has a number of free articles on various aspects of values and character education.

http://www.valueseducation.co.uk/

CSV runs Make a Difference day. Every October people are challenged to volunteer. These packs give information and ideas for teachers about running Make a Difference day projects.

http://www.csv.org.uk/campaigns/csv-make-difference-day

The Play your Part website developed by The Academy for Sustainable Communities (ASC) and CSV is an online toolkit that supports teachers to encourage pupils to play an active role in community projects. The website includes ideas, resources, activities and teaching aids.

http://www.cskills.org/newsandevents/news/pastnews/migrantresearch.aspx

A series of activities that community organisations can run to promote good citizenship in young people.

http://www.woodcraft.org.uk/resources/pioneer/cit/