Resources for Young People

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 short guide for young people about what character employers are seeking in the people they recruit.

Character First

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

Running active citizenship projects can be one of the best ways for young people to develop their character.  There are a number of organisations that offer funds to young people to carry out well planned active citizenship projects.

Raising funds for Active Citizenship

A teaching pack that compliments the values poster award.  The pack consists of teaching ideas that make the poster award more attractive to schools and helps them to embed the poster award into their curriculum.

Teaching Pack – Values Poster

A useful handout that explains what makes a good character.

A_Person_Of_Character

Designed for secondary school students to look at their local community and evaluate what is good and bad about it. They are then encouraged to organise a project that will improve it. A Resource from: ASC/CSV.

Audit_Your_Community

This factsheet from schools councils looks at how young people can get more involved with their local communities. It suggests ways that school councils and individual young people can makes links with the community and develop projects to help improve them.

Getting_Involved

A resource from Heartlines (www.heartlines.org.za) full of practical ideas to enable young people to start considering their own values, and what values are important to their families. http://www.heartlines.org.za/

Heartlines_For_Good

Magical Moments Around the World is a global educational project uniting youth from schools all over the world sharing their magical moments.

http://www.magicalmoment.net/EN/

Magical_Moments

A resource from Heartlines (www.heartlines.org.za)that provides stimulating and fun activities that help 10-16 year olds put their values into action. http://www.heartlines.org.za/

Putting_Values_Into_Action

This book, designed for secondary school students, has been written to inspire and encourage young people to take on leadership roles within their school and community.

http://www.csveducation.org.uk/res_20ways.htm

As community for young people interested in careers that have a positive impact on other people’s lives and the community they live in.

http://www.askwhatif.co.uk/

Website especially for young people with sections on health and relationships, money, crime and justice, learning, leisure and politics.

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/www.direct.gov.uk/en/YoungPeople/index.htm

Kikass is a charity that brings together young people across the UK to champion career and personal development, while channelling raw talent into finding creative solutions to social issues and building active communities among 16-26 year olds.

http://www.kikass.tv/

A book for 8-11 year olds that looks at conflict resolution and ways to develop life skills.

http://store.atozteacherstuff.com/download-now/peacemaking_kids.html

A website packed full of ideas for how young people can get involved with their communities. Can also download many useful factsheets about various volunteering projects.

http://www.youngtimebank.org.uk/