A-Z of Drugs and Quit
Publisher: 4 Learning / Espresso Education
Curriculum Connections: Supports PSHE/PSD courses and health care courses, physical and emotional health, responsibility for oneself and for others, encourages informed decisions about drugs and smoking, encourages a healthy, safe lifestyle. The A-Z of Drugs: the aim of this series is to inform, to disentangle myths from reality. It’s a fast moving, stylish, no nonsense guide through the minefield of drugs. The programmes give facts, information and viewpoints in a language young people understand. Upfront and honest, these programmes tackle drugs head on, delivering clear facts with strong messages, empowering young people to make informed choices for themselves. 3 x 25 minute programmes, titles: 1. A to E Covers A to E, starting with alcohol and ending with ecstasy. 2. F to O this programme starts with F for friends, it moves on to look at heroin and injecting, then explores making choices and needing to fit in. 3. P to Z Includes a look at treatment and some of the reasons why people take drugs. Quit. Quit is a series of campaigning films. Short and sharp, Quit has one aim: to discourage and stop young people from smoking. Strong, visually alluring and attention grabbing, these clever pieces will appeal to teenagers’ vanity, their sense of social injustice and their sense of humour whilst presenting the medical facts about nicotine dependency. 5 x 25 minute programmes, titles: 1. A Hole in My Neck: Few people realise that smoking can cause tongue and throat cancer. This film looks at the consequences of smoking and follows an operation to remove a smoker’s tongue. 2. Family Habit: Teenage smokers are under the impression that it’s easy to give up, they could do it any time if they wanted to. Not true. It’s as hard for them to give up as it is for their mum or dad with a 20 year habit. We set a challenge, can a teenager AND their mum give up? 3. Greg’s Story: Greg is sixteen. He dreams of being a top tennis player. He goes to school, has a younger sister and a dog. He’s just like anyone else his age, except that when he was 11 he found out that he had cancer. Greg’s utter disbelief that anyone would choose to risk going through what he has experienced first hand is a powerful reminder that life is full of hidden dangers, and that some risks jus aren’t worth taking. 4. Breath of Fresh Air: Every year the tobacco companies need to recruit 450,000 new smokers to replace those lost through illness and death, and these new smokers need to by young. This film juxtaposes cigarette commercials and testimonials from tobacco industry executives with the experience of someone who fell for their marketing strategies, Alex, a man who now talks through a stoma hole in his neck after smoking gave him cancer. 5. Dog End: An animation about passive smoking. Trying to hide his fags from his parents, a teenage boy subjects the family dog to his illicit smoke. Dog End uses black humour to explore the issue of passive smoking and the damage it inflicts. Interactive Whiteboard compatible. GCSE+, Scottish Level SG, NQs. FREE PREVIEW: this DVD is available on 14 day FREE PREVIEW, simply click the option below - an invoice will be issued for any items retained after this time.
Format: DVD Video
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-19
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A-Z of Love and Sex
Publisher: 4 Learning / Espresso Education
Curriculum Connections: Interpersonal and group skills, relationships, self awareness, self reliance and self confidence, rights and responsibilities, health studies, physical and emotional health, sex education. Everything you wanted to know, but were afraid to ask, The A-Z of Love and Sex is a fast moving, unashamedly direct series that answers all those burning questions about love and sex which are often far too embarrassing to articulate. Upfront, open minded and straightforward, each programme moves through a section of the alphabet as a way into a range of questions and issues, with views from a variety of participants. The emphasis is on young people being able to make informed, responsible decisions in their personal lives. 3 x 25 minute programmes, titles: 1. A to F Thinking about love and sex?, 2. G to M Everything you are afraid to ask, 3. N to Z Mainly about respect. Interactive Whiteboard compatible. GCSE+, Scottish Level SG, NQs. PC & Mac compatible. FREE PREVIEW: this DVD is available on 14 day FREE PREVIEW, simply click the option below - an invoice will be issued for any items retained after this time.
Format: DVD Video
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-19
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A-Z of Your Head
Publisher: 4 Learning / Espresso Education
Curriculum Connections: Developing confidence and responsibility. Developing a healthy lifestyle. Developing good relationships. A-Z of Your Head features 1 x 50 minute programme. The DVD looks at the variety of mental health issues that affect young people. It tries to de stigmatise mental health problems and encourage young people to talk openly about their feelings. The programme races through the alphabet, covering a range of questions and issues. Covering anorexia, schizophrenia, exam stress and depression, A-Z of Your Head is rich with personal stories that challenge the stereotypes about mental conditions. Interactive Whiteboard compatible. GCSE, A Level, Scottish SG, NQs. FREE PREVIEW: this DVD is available on 14 day FREE PREVIEW, simply click the option below - an invoice will be issued for any items retained after this time.
Format: DVD Video
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-19
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Alcohol
Publisher: Birchfield Interactive plc
Topics covered include: alcohol and the law, the cost of alcoholism to the victim, families, society, the health service and the public. This interactive CD-ROM provides in-depth coverage of this important topic in a sensitive and realistic manner. The resource deals with the dangers of alcohol and the implications it can have on individuals, their family and society. Interactive Whiteboard compatible.
Format: Windows CD-ROM
Key stage: 3, 4
Age range: 11-16+
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At the Cafe
Publisher: Semerc
Supports role play activities based on childrens experiences. Features: encourages individual & co-operative role play based on doctor's surgery, broadens experience of modelling, opportunities for children to express their feelings, printable teacher support material, configure option allows differentiation, develops knowledge & understanding of the world, important contribution to personal, social & emotional development.
Format: Windows / Mac CD-ROM
Key stage: 1
Age range: 3-6
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At the Doctors
Publisher: Semerc
Supports childrens role play, provides teachers with effective way to integrate ICT into foundation stage. Encourages individual & co-operative role play based on vets surgery, broadens experience of modelling, opportunity for children to express feelings, counting & measuring, configure option allows differentiation, develops knowledge & understanding of the world, makes important contribution to personal, social & emotional development.
Format: Windows / Mac CD-ROM
Key stage: 1
Age range: 3-6
ISBN: 1842354019
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At the Garden Centre
Publisher: Semerc
Exciting and educational CD designed to support role play activities based on childrens own experiences. Encourages individual and co-operative role play based around a traditional garden centre. Broadens the experience of modelling through play. Includes a simple text entry facility and user-friendly interface. Provides opportunities to develop simple money-related skills. Contains pictorial menus. Helps children to further develop their knowledge and understanding of the world, and makes an important contribution to their personal, social and emotional development. Teacher settings allow the program to be modified to suit range of pupils needs. Interactive Whiteboard compatible.
Format: Windows / Mac CD-ROM
Key stage: 2
Age range: 7-11
ISBN: 1406006939
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At the Post Office
Publisher: Semerc
Exciting and educational CD designed to support role play activities based on childrens own experiences. Encourages individual and co-operative role play based around a traditional Post Office. Broadens the experience of modelling through play. Includes a simple text entry facility and user-friendly interface. Provides opportunities to develop simple money-related skills. Contains pictorial menus. Helps children to further develop their knowledge and understanding of the world, and makes an important contribution to their personal, social and emotional development. Teacher settings allow the program to be modified to suit range of pupils needs. Interactive Whiteboard compatible.
Format: Windows / Mac CD-ROM
Key stage: 1
Age range: 3-7
ISBN: 1406006866/G05
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At the Toy Shop
Publisher: Semerc
Exciting and educational CD designed to support role play activities based on childrens own experiences. Encourages individual and co-operative role play based around a traditional Toy Shop. Broadens experience of modelling through play. Includes a simple text entry facility and user-friendly interface. Provides opportunities to develop simple money-related skills. Contains pictorial menus. Helps children to further develop their knowledge and understanding of the world, and makes an important contribution to their personal, social and emotional development. Teacher settings allow the program to be modified to suit range of pupils needs. Interactive Whiteboard compatible.
Format: Windows / Mac CD-ROM
Key stage: 1
Age range: 3-7
ISBN: 1406006793/G05
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Being Different and That’s My Life DVD
Publisher: 4 Learning / Espresso Education
This DVD features 2 titles: Being Different, 5 x 10 minute programmes, and That's My Life, 5 x 5 minute programmes. Curriculum Connections: Appreciating different views and perspectives. Provides lively discussion material for PSHE and citizenship. BEING DIFFERENT: We are all different. Some differences are small but significant, whilst others are more obvious and have a big impact. In this series of funny and touching video diaries, young people from across the country explain why they feel different from others, and how being different affects them. The stories include being adopted, being a newcomer, having a speech impediment, having divorced parents, having psoriasis, being a young carer, being a Christian, being a male ballet dancer and being a twin. Titles: 1. I'm Different. 2. My Family's Different. 3. My Lifestyle's Different. 4. My Interests are Different. 5. Surviving Anorexia. THAT'S MY LIFE: These films feature young disabled people talking about themselves, their lives and relationships. The films reveal how assumptions and prejudices can create barriers for people regarded as different. That's My Life aims to open up ideas for reflection, discussion and action for staff and students, and to break down those barriers. Titles: 1. Carl; who has been blind from a very young age. 2. Stacey; who has cerebral palsy. 3. Christopher; who has Asperger's Syndrome. 4. Natalie; who has Down's Syndrome. 5. Elliott; who has cerebral palsy. Interactive Whiteboard compatible. Scottish Levels C, D, E, F, A. FREE PREVIEW: this DVD is available on 14 day FREE PREVIEW, simply click the option below - an invoice will be issued for any items retained after this time.
Format: DVD Video
Key stage: 2, 3
Age range: 7-14
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Boy Whose Skin Fell Off DVD
Publisher: 4 Learning / Espresso Education
Curriculum Connections: Dealing with bereavement. Understanding terminal illness. Social, spiritual and moral issues surrounding life and death. The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off features 1 x 50 minute programme. In the last months of his life, Jonny Kennedy decided to work with filmmaker Patrick Collerton to document his life and death. Not shying away from the grim reality of Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), the film is also a celebration of a life lived to the full. It was first broadcast on Channel 4 in March 2004. six months later, Channel 4 re-screened the film and visited Jonny's family to see how they had come to terms with his death. This DVD version has been divided into chapters to make it more flexible for use in an educational setting. The chapters divide the content into manageable short sections of around four minutes in length. These can be viewed as separate items, enabling viewers to focus separately on the various issues raised by the film. The programme contains scenes, including an image of a dead body, which some people may find distressing. Interactive Whiteboard compatible. GCSE and higher, Scottish Level SG, NQs. FREE PREVIEW: this DVD is available on 14 day FREE PREVIEW, simply click the option below - an invoice will be issued for any items retained after this time.
Format: DVD Video
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-19
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Captain Cook's Tuck Box
Publisher: Topologika Software Ltd
Develops Cookery, Nutrition, Healthy-eating, Safety, Catering, Hospitality and Manual Skills. Captain Cook's Tuck Box aims to get children cooking (and eating) nutritious food. Teachers love the way it saves time and makes budding cooks anticipate their next lesson as much as their hungry tums do. For parents it's a mouth-watering way to make food preparation safe, educational and fun. Captain Cook's Tuck Box includes around 200 child-designed (and munched) recipes (e.g. Hotch Potch, Worm Pie, Caterpillar Salad and 'Dog' Biscuits), ideas for national and religious festivals, ready-to-use cookery books, a talking health genie who provides tips on balanced diets and snacks, and even an (optional) animated joke-telling 'parrot'. The Cookbook section has Beginners, Junior and Senior options with printable, illustrated recipes. The Recipes section lets you browse them with Health and Safety pop-ups, teaching tips and a built-in cooking timer - there are even 15 graduated recipes to teach basic cookery skills. Menus introduces food combinations with a tool for designing party and special occasion menus, plus a useful search engine/filtering system - ideal for linked work in ICT. A well thought out Library offers food and culinary dictionaries, good-food guides, menu guides, health and hygiene advice, and videos. Captain Cook's Tuck Box is easy to install, networkable, and perfect for interactive whiteboards. It comes with configuration options (e.g. sound off and alternative colour schemes), pupil tracking and downloadable lesson plans. It's the only cooking software written specially for British homes and schools - so easy even an adult can use it! Combats obesity and associated illnesses by helping children move from fast food/sweets to fruit, veg and fibre. Explains why fresh food is best, nutrition, food safety and hygiene. Enhances the quality of the community's lives. Helps build relationships by encouraging families to eat together. Supports cross-curricular work in reading, writing and ICT. Automatically calculates ingredient quantities for any class size. Supplied as complete packs with CD and Licence which includes: around 200 recipes to promote 'healthy eating'; 32 videos, Help screens and pupil tracking facilities, Three ready-to-use cookery books and booklet on how to start a Cookery Club; Menu designer, progress certificates, food jokes, Built-in search engine. Reviews available. IWC compatible.
Format: Windows CD-ROM
Key stage: 1,2, 3
Age range: 5-13
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Child Development
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
New Child Development titles from Heinemann. INTRODUCTION TO CHILD DEVELOPMENT DVD & TUTOR RESOURCE BOOKLET: An exciting and unique teaching package that brings learning to life! This package supports whole-class teaching of child development from birth to eight years, enabling tutors to integrate video clips with class-based activities to really motivate learners. Suitable for Level 1 and 2 courses. The DVD contains approx 130 narrated video clips showing children's key developmental stages, plus longer 'observations in context' clips focusing on play. Includes a resource booklet that provides teaching suggestions and photocopiable activities for use alongside the video clips, designed to reinforce learning. Published July 2006. CHILD DEVELOPMENT: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE, 2/E BOOK: This popular best seller has just got better! This new edition is fully revised with new colour photos throughout and extended to cover child development from birth to 16 years - in line with the new National Occupational Standards. It enables you to build up a picture of a child's progress throughout their development. It guides you through the age-related behaviour to expect from a growing child. It can reassure you that a child is developing normally or allow you to identify a child who, for some reason, may not be following developmental milestones. The safety, ICT and nutrition guidelines provided throughout offer useful tips to bear in mind when working with children. The book benefits from Carolyn Meggitt's vast experience as an early years teacher who has written several successful textbooks on childcare and education, so students can be sure of relevant, reliable content. Provides the perfect accompaniment to the Introduction to Child Development DVD. Published January 2006. CHILD DEVELOPMENT: 6 TO 16 YEARS BOOK: A lively, engaging textbook to make child development from 6 to 16 years relevant for childcare students. Written by best-selling author Penny Tassoni, Child Development: 6 to 16 years will inspire learners to engage with this important subject through the discussion of topical issues and children’s real experiences. Attractive, user-friendly format that will appeal to students with a range of ages and abilities. Clear explanations of how early years practice influences children’s later development helps students to understand the relevance of this topic to their own studies. Students can use the suggested ideas and advice to provide evidence of their knowledge in interesting and originals ways. Reflects the new National Occupational Standards. Published April 2007.
Format: DVD Video, Print
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-16+
ISBN: 9780435899820
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Drug Education Lesson Kit
Publisher: Birchfield Interactive plc
PUPIL CD: contains 13.5 hours of material. Fun, easy to use, operates in line with recent drug education in schools, relevant to science curriculum work. Facts about different types of drugs, their uses, risks, legal consequences. First aid is covered in depth, illustrates CPR and other techniques. Testimonies from real people: health professionals, convicted drug users, portray the issue from different angles. TEACHER CD: Unique inset training CD, used to instruct teachers on how to provide drug education. Provides in-house training, ideal for NQTs. It is paramount that information pupils are given is accurate and delivered in an effective manner. Topics covered include documentation, risk taking, peer influence/pressure, policy making, critical thinking, exploring attitudes and values, signs and symptoms and cross curricular audits. There is also a list of useful contacts. See also 991528 Ace Monkey PSHE series for KS2 version. Interactive Whiteboard compatible.
Format: Windows CD-ROM
Key stage: 3, 4
Age range: 11-16+
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Drugs & Alcohol: The Issues
Publisher: 4 Learning / Espresso Education
Drugs & Alcohol: The Issues takes a frank, unflinching look at the social and medical impacts of recreational drug and alcohol consumption in today's Britain. The programmes on this DVD aim to answer the question 'Why do people use drugs and drink alcohol?' They address issues such as the social, 'fun' aspects of drinking , the 'highs and lows' involved in taking drugs, psychological and physiological effects, the reasons for users' initial attraction to addictive substances, attitudes to personal risk and peer pressure. The DVD also investigates addiction not only its damaging consequences for addicts and their families but also how individuals can beat addiction with appropriate care and support. Some of the addictive substances covered in these programmes are legal, such as alcohol and prescription drugs. However, they also investigate a range of illegal recreational drugs including cannabis, ecstasy, cocaine, heroin and speed. Booze: A Young Person's Guide is a documentary which was filmed during the course of one Saturday night, in six locations in England and Tenerife. The six drinking stories show the different attitudes that exist towards alcohol among many young British people today. Britain's Deadliest Addictions looks at three people who are addicts, each with one thing in common - they are dependent on drugs or alcohol to get them through every day. The three patients spend five days at a treatment centre and work with experts to tackle their problems. Drugs: The Lowdown on Getting High takes an honest look at the ups and downs of using cannabis, ecstasy, speed or cocaine. The film aims to tell the 14-16 age group what they need to know about the drugs that they are most likely to encounter. Wasted looks at the impacts of drug use on individuals, families and society. This is a hard-hitting and at times disturbing insight into how drug use can ruin lives, although there are also the stories of those who have overcome addiction to get their lives back on track. WARNING: 'Wasted' contains some strong language and scenes of drug injecting. Programmes contained on this 2 DVD set: Disk 1 - Booze: A Young Persons Guide - 1 x 50-minute programme; Britain's Deadliest Addictions - 5 x 25-minute programmes: 1. Day 1 at the Clinic, 2. Day 2 at the Clinic, 3. Day 3 at the Clinic, 4. Day 4 at the Clinic, 5. Day 5 at the Clinic. Disk 2 - Drugs: The Lowdown on Getting High - 1 x 50-minute programme; Wasted - 4 x 30-minute programmes: 1. Heroin, 2. Cannabis, 3. Mum and Dad, 4. Alcohol. Curriculum Connections: Building knowledge and understanding about drugs and alcohol, Risk-taking and dealing with pressure, Why do people use drugs? Giving and receiving support. How can these DVDs enhance my lessons? DVDs offer greater flexibility and control, Can be used via computer or DVD player, Ideal for use with an interactive whiteboard, Fully searchable, allowing you to go straight to what you need, PC and Mac compatible. Scottish Level E, F, SG, NQs. FREE PREVIEW: this DVD is available on 14 day FREE PREVIEW, simply click the option below - an invoice will be issued for any items retained after this time.
Format: DVD Video
Key stage: 3, 4+
Age range: 11-19
ISBN: 9781847050113
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Find it Fix it
Publisher: 4Mation
Addresses National Curriculum requirements for risk assessment through hazard identification and risk control, in Science and Design & Technology. RoSPA initiative to help teach students vital home safety concepts which are a key to later life and central to accident prevention. Features series of common domestic hazards in kitchen and bathroom setting. Risk Assess Mode: once a hazard has been identified its risk must be correctly assessed. Risk Control Mode: control method has to be matched to the risk. Animated sequence reveals result when correct option has been chosen. Features: Easy to use, automatically records progress, brings safety in the home to life, focuses on safety in curriculum, covers vital home safety concepts, fully interactive with superb graphics, English narrator, includes worksheets, user guide. Interactive Whiteboard compatible.
Format: Windows CD-ROM
Key stage: 2, 3, 4
Age range: 8-18
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Health and Social Care DVD
Publisher: 4 Learning / Espresso Education
Features 6 x 25 minute programmes suitable for all Awarding Body specifications. Curriculum Connections: health, social care and early years services; promoting health and well-being; understanding personal development and relationships. Participants in these programmes include: a mother of 18 month old twins, imminently expecting another pair; a family with a six year old with cerebral palsy; a doctor's receptionist trying to kick her habit of 30 cigarettes a day. Programme 1: In Need of Support, an introduction to all the participants and their families. Programme 2: Meeting Needs?, how the participants’ needs are catered for and the people they come across. Programme 3: Stressed Out, how the participants gauge their health and well-being. Programme 4: Making Changes, observation of some of the participants’ attempts to get healthier. Programme 5: Growing Up, following the younger participants in the early stages of their lives. Programme 6: Dealing With Life, how relationships and life events have influenced our participants' health and well being. Interactive Whiteboard compatible. For Applied GCSEs. FREE PREVIEW: this DVD is available on 14 day FREE PREVIEW, simply click the option below - an invoice will be issued for any items retained after this time.
Format: DVD Video
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-16
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Healthy Kids - Inside Outside
Publisher: Learning and Teaching Scotland
Introduces children to friends, Mia and Kes. Designed to teach and reinforce emotional, social, physical health issues, meets outcomes contained in the 5-14 guidelines on health education. Children will love Mia and Kes, who will guide them through a variety of situations and activities where they will learn invaluable lessons along the way. Healthy Kids includes 7 activities and comes complete with teachers manual and worksheets. Set in a comic strip context activities include Mia and Kes in: Little Mo and the Journey for the Magic Wand, Baby Buds Party, Making a Meal of it, Flick and the Tooth Test, Get Fit with the Mysterious Mr Mee, Sleepy Sisters, Phil's First Day.
Format: Windows / Mac CD-ROM
Key stage: 2
Age range: 7-11
Ref: L10001
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Healthy Living for Younger Children DVD
Publisher: 4 Learning / Espresso Education
This compilation will help younger children identify and understand the role of the 5 senses. They will also learn about what to eat to stay healthy and how to keep fit, safe and well. This DVD is divided into 3 sections. The Sensations - 5 x 10 minute programmes: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, Touching. The Lunch Bunch - 5 x 10 minute programmes: Food Fun & Facts, Bread & Cereals, Fruit & Vegetables, Milk & Dairy Products, Festivals. Look After Yourself - 5 x 15 minute programmes: Keep Clean, Eat Well, Keep Fit, Keep Safe, Know How You Feel. Curriculum Connections: developing a healthy, safer lifestyle (KS1 Framework for PSHE, Section 3; promotes eating for health (QCA Schemes of Work for Science, Unit 3A); the role of the 5 senses (QCA Schemes of Work for Science, Unit 1A). Benefits and Features: DVDs offer great flexibility and control; can be used via computer or DVD player and ideal for use with an interactive whiteboard; fully searchable, allowing you to go straight to what you need; PC & MAC compatible; online support material; subtitles (with on/off controls). FREE PREVIEW: this DVD is available on 14 day FREE PREVIEW, simply click the option below - an invoice will be issued for any items retained after this time.
Format: DVD Video
Key stage: 1
Age range: 4-7
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Jacqueline Wilson Trilogy DVD
Publisher: 4 Learning / Espresso Education
Endorsed by the National Literacy Association’s Guide to Literacy Resources 2003. Best Children’s Fiction Award RTS 2003. Winner International Emmy 2004. Winner BAFTA Children’s Film and Television Awards 2004. Two of Jacqueline Wilson’s dramas are now available on DVD with extra Popular Writers documentary included. What’s So Good About Jacqueline Wilson (Documentary), 2 x 15 minute programmes: Jacqueline Wilson invites us into her book filled home to show how she writes her books and develops her ideas. Her books touch on important and sensitive subjects such as homeless families, children in care, bullying and bereavement, but always maintain humour and a lightness of touch appropriate to her audience. DOUBLE ACT: 1 x 100 minute programme. Curriculum Connections: Narrative structure, character, setting, dialogue and plot, storytelling through dramatisation, study of media texts. Jacqueline Wilson weaves a charming, sensitive and often hilarious story about ten year old twins Ruby and Garnet growing up and finding their own identities. The girls look alike but have very different personalities. Everything starts to change when their widowed dad brings home Rose, his new partner. They move to the country, but the girls, particularly Ruby, find country life difficult to cope with, so they make plans to sneak off to the big city to audition for a TV series and apply to a posh boarding school. But the girls’ best efforts do not go according to plan. THE ILLUSTRATED MUM: 4 x 25 minute programmes. Curriculum Connections: Gives insights into the author’s craft, setting, mood and character, the structuring of text. Promotes listening, reflection and discussion. Develops opportunities for writing. Explores PSHE themes of growing up, family relationships and mental illness. Dolphin’s remarkable coming of age in The Illustrated Mum won Jacqueline Wilson the 1999 Guardian Prize for children’s fiction. At its core is the intimate exploration of what happens when children are forced to take on all the roles that parents are usually expected to deliver. Deep down Dolphin knows the truth about her mother, Marigold, that she suffers from a mental illness. Starring Michelle Collins as Marigold. Interactive Whiteboard compatible. FREE PREVIEW: this DVD is available on 14 day FREE PREVIEW, simply click the option below - an invoice will be issued for any items retained after this time.
Format: DVD Video
Key stage: 2, 3
Age range: 7-14
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Just Like Series
Publisher: Semerc
Just Like concept enables children and teachers to explore issues relating to personal & social development which affect emotional well-being, behaviour and learning. Every Other Class: core issue disruptive behaviour, bringing to life issues such as learning, expectations, relationships. Every Other Morning: core issue bullying, bringing to life issues such as isolation, fear, relationships. Every Other Mum: core issue loss, bringing to life issues such as stigma, responsibility, relationships. Every Other Pupil: core issue parental expectations, bringing to life issues such as pressure, achievement, relationships. Every Other School Bell: core issue conflict at home, bringing to life issues such as fear, disclosure, relationships. Also available: Just Like Circle Time Board Game: without question the most imaginative, interactive, fun circle time resource produced. Created specifically to break the mould with respect to the widely used concept of circle time. Provides children, teachers and schools with an imaginative colourful, fun and ready to use circle time resource. Scottish Levels A-E, 5-14.
Format: Windows CD-ROM
Key stage: 2, 3
Age range: 7-13
ISBN: 184235325X
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Lets Stop Bullying
Publisher: Birchfield Interactive plc
Software package designed to enable children to identify and resolve bullying behaviour and to help children who are victims of bullying. Very simple to use, for both teachers and pupils, software allows children to interact with the computer to learn. Using actual video footage of real life situations, children are given the opportunity to respond to what they see happening. The CD shows teachers and children how to develop and implement a peer counselling policy. Sections include: bullying - the facts; peer counselling; risks; video scenarios. Interactive Whiteboard compatible.
Format: Windows CD-ROM
Key stage: 3, 4
Age range: 11-16+
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Life Skills Series
Publisher: Heinemann Library
The Life Skills series, for pupils at Key Stage 3-4 (Scotland S1-2), is designed to equip students with the skill sets they need to move confidently into the adult world and achieve success in the workplace and balance in their lives! Some titles support and reinforce core curriculum skills and project-based learning while others promote practical skills and emotional intelligence. Authors: Bobby Reed, Barbara Sheen, Steve Parker and John Townsend: Features a sophisticated magazine style layout to draw students in; particularly lower ability readers. Offers real-life examples of the practical uses of skills. Hardback books, 56 pages per volume, Trim size: 235 x 162mm, Illustrations: Full colour. Series comprises total of 19 books available individually or in 3 packs. Pack A - 7 Books, published October 2008: Be a Great Babysitter, Get Green!, Let's Debate!, Managing Money, Panic-Free Presentations, Raising Money, Travel Tips. 7 Books in Pack B, published October 2008; and 5 books in Pack C, published April 2009.
Format: Print - Hardback
Key Stage: 3, 4
Age range: 11-14
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Lifeskills Series
Publisher: Learning and Teaching Scotland
Designed primarily for older pupils with learning difficulties, suitable for primary, secondary, FE; KS2-3, Scottish: 5-14 levels A-C & D-E, SEN. Features: helps pupils understand the concepts related to money, helps teach and reinforce mathematical concepts, activities can be customised to meet needs of users, teachers manual including worksheets. Titles: Smart Spender, Time & Money, Traveller's Cheque.
Format: Windows / Mac CD-ROM
Key stage: 2, 3
Age range: 13-18+
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Living and Growing DVD
Publisher: 4 Learning / Espresso Education
All three units and the INSET programme for the Living and Growing series are now available on a single DVD containing 9 x 15 minute programmes. This includes gently introducing sex education to younger children, through puberty and birth, to media images, same-sex relationships and teenage pregnancy. A free booklet containing programme notes from the series and the INSET programme is now available when you buy this DVD. Features: The units in the DVD have been divided up into short five-minute chapters, Video footage, helping you to improve results, The DVD will support the many different learning styles in your class. Curriculum Connections: Challenges beliefs, Developing Healthy and safer life styles, Emotional Physical and Social Health, Positive attitudes values and behaviour, Skills for effective communication, loving, caring and happy relationships, Science Technology. Benefits and Features: DVDs offer great flexibility and control, can be used via computer or DVD player, ideal for use with an interactive whiteboard, fully searchable, allowing you to go straight to what you need, PC & MAC compatible, embedded support material, subtitles (with on/off controls). LIVING AND GROWING UNIT 1, Age 5-7: Young children are introduced gently to issues relating to sex education through a study of topics that include living and growing, families, our bodies, growing up from baby to adult, naming body parts, differences between boys and girls, and relationships at home and at school: (1) Differences, (2) How Did I Get Here? (3) Growing Up. NB. Programme 2 contains animations of the sexual organs. LIVING AND GROWING UNIT 2, Age 7-9: This unit reinforces and expands on key learning points from Unit 1. The programmes focus on issues such as the human life cycle in the context of all living things, changes within and beyond our control, friendship, puberty, sexual relationships, pregnancy and the birth of a baby. (4) Changes, (5) How Babies Are Made, (6) How Babies Are Born. NB. Programme 2 contains animation of sexual intercourse. NB. Programme 3 contains footage of a live birth. LIVING AND GROWING UNIT 3, Age 9-11: This unit prepares children to face puberty and adolescence with confidence. The final programme considers media images of sex and adult relationships, both opposite and same-sex. It deals with questions that children of this age may want to ask relating to such issues as teenage pregnancy. (7) Girl Talk, (8) Boy Talk, (9) Let's Talk About Sex. NB. Programme 2 contains animation of ejaculation and discusses wet dreams and masturbation. NB. Programme 3 contains discussion, at an appropriate level, of sensitive issues such as gay and lesbian relationships and the purpose of condoms. FREE PREVIEW: this DVD is available on 14 day FREE PREVIEW, simply click the option below - an invoice will be issued for any items retained after this time.
Format: DVD Video
Key stage: 1, 2
Age range: 5-11
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Mental Health DVD
Publisher: 4 Learning / Espresso Education
This DVD features 3 titles: Losing It, 1 x 25 minute programme, Winning the Mind Game, 1 x 25 minute programme, and Without You, 1 x 25 minute programme. Curriculum Connections: Developing confidence and responsibility. Developing a healthy, safe lifestyle. Developing good relationships. To reflect on and access strengths. The causes, symptoms and treatments for stress and depression. Self awareness, self knowledge, self confidence. Emotional health, recognising the stages of emotion associated with loss and change. Interpersonal skills. Support and reassurance. LOSING IT: One in five young people experience mental health problems, and one in ten have problems serious enough to need professional help. Taking its audience on the first steps of a journey towards understanding stress and anxiety, depression and disorder, self harm, suicide and despair, Losing It is designed to help young people and those working with them to: identify the factors that affect mental health, understand what mental health is and distinguish it from mental illness, overcome the fear and stigma associated with mental illness, develop confidence, self esteem and emotional literacy. Losing It is supported by a Science on Stage and Screen Award from The Welcome Trust. WINNING THE MIND GAME: Mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety are increasingly prevalent among young people in the UK. At their most extreme, they can kill. Suicide is the second most common cause of death among Britons under 35. Yet a lot can be done to stop things reaching such desperate and tragic ends. This programme challenges the stigma of owning up to mental health problems. It profiles three attractive, successful young people who have suffered and conquered mental illness. Their deeply moving stories prove that having a mental health problem isn’t the end of the world, and can even lead to personal growth. WITHOUT YOU: Explores the experiences of young people whose lives have been affected by bereavement. The documentary focuses on portraits of young people in very different circumstances, and traces the individual ways they have come to terms with grief and loss, and gained the strength to face the future. In particular, the programme aims to help young people to recognise the emotions associated with loss and change, deal positively with strong feelings, overcome their fears, and begin to ask for support from others and give it in return. Interactive Whiteboard compatible. GCSE+, Scottish Level SG, NQs. FREE PREVIEW: this DVD is available on 14 day FREE PREVIEW, simply click the option below - an invoice will be issued for any items retained after this time.
Format: DVD Video
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-19
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Not So Naughty Stories
Publisher: Sherston Software Ltd
Perfect for Personal Social and Enjoyable Education! Introduce pupils to collection of colourful characters that make PSE interesting, relevant and entertaining. Read about a cheeky chatterbox, dishonest daughter or shocking sharer, they will learn about the consequences of behaving badly and how such behaviour affects others. Each story explores an important PSE theme, has 3 interactive activities designed to support teaching, provide stimuli for further thought, reflection and discussion. Contents: 12 simple stories accompanied by entertaining animations, lively sound effects, fully narrated highlighted text, 36 activities in3 different types, record keeping to track pupils achievements. Interactive Whiteboard compatible.
Format: Windows / Mac CD-ROM
Key stage: 1
Age range: 4-7
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Parenting Education DVD
Publisher: 4 Learning / Espresso Education
A valuable resource for teachers who want to introduce students to the reality of parenthood, divided into 2 sections. Parenting Stories - 3 x 25 minute programmes: Birth Days, Toddlers & Young Children, Forever. Uses real-life documentaries and a drama to convey the emotions and challenges involved in dealing with pregnancy and coping with children. In Borrow a Baby - 1 x 50 minute programme. Three teenagers are given a real baby to look after while the anxious parents look of via CCTV monitors. A gripping, funny and moving documentary which shows teenagers that the reality of having a baby is far more complex than it may seem. Curriculum Connections: parenting skills, rights and responsibilities, pregnancy, child development, play and discipline, finance, child-parent bond, sources of help. Benefits and features: DVDs offer great flexibility and control; can be used via computer or DVD player and ideal for use with an interactive whiteboard; fully searchable, allowing you to go straight to what you need; PC & MAC compatible; online support material; subtitles (with on/off controls). FREE PREVIEW: this DVD is available on 14 day FREE PREVIEW, simply click the option below - an invoice will be issued for any items retained after this time.
Format: DVD Video
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-19
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Rush & Express DVD
Publisher: 4 Learning / Espresso Education
The DVD features 2 titles consisting of 5 x 10 minute and 1 x 65 minute programmes. Curriculum Connections: Express: Sign language, deaf culture, communications. Rush: Deafness and disability as part of cultural diversity, differences between people as they develop their own sense of identity, understanding and challenging stereotyping, prejudice, bullying, racism and discrimination. EXPRESS: This series opens up the world of deaf culture and communications and, in setting out to discover how communication works for def and hearing people, explores the power and expressiveness of sign language. Focusing on strong stories drawn from personal experience, the programmes look at everyday situations from new and intriguing perspectives. Titles: 1. Why Don’t You Listen? Community and conflict between the generations. 2. The Learning Game: Explores the experiences of deaf students at school. 3. Strong Language: Examines visual and verbal communication in the arts and entertainment. 4. The Works: Focuses on relationships at work. 5. Media Messages: Explores the powerful role the media can play in all our lives. RUSH: Is a compelling and original drama about a group of friends struggling to make sense of their lives. Adam, Troy, Kelly, Maya, Nicky and Mel are deaf, six students working and playing hard in a hearing world. Rush follows each of them on a different journey as they try to live for the present, and fight for a future. The drama explores the themes of friendship, identity, tough choices, secrets and lies, live and losing it, viewed from a young, deaf perspective. Rush brings together a cast of deaf and hearing actors and is filmed in a mix of speech and sign language. Interactive Whiteboard compatible. GCSE+, Scottish Level E, F, SG, NQs. FREE PREVIEW: this DVD is available on 14 day FREE PREVIEW, simply click the option below - an invoice will be issued for any items retained after this time.
Format: DVD Video
Key stage: 3, 4
Age range: 11-19
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Sex and Relationships DVD
Publisher: 4 Learning / Espresso Education
DVD contains x 4 titles: In My Experience, Growing Up Gay, More Than Love, and Sex, Love and Video Diaries (CPD). Curriculum Connections: In My Experience: Interpersonal and group skills, relationships, self awareness, self reliance and self confidence, rights and responsibilities, sexual difference, physical and emotional health. Growing Up Gay: Interpersonal and group skills, relationships, self awareness, self reliance and self confidence, rights and responsibilities, prejudice and discrimination, sexual difference and homophobia, support and reassurance, bullying. More Than Love: Discussion material for PSHE/PSD and citizenship courses, friendships, relationships and sexuality, citizenship and minority issues, self respect (emotional and physical) and respect for others, sexual difference and homophobia, bullying. Sex, Love and Video Diaries (CPD): skills for sex and relationships education, learning about attitudes and feelings, looking at behaviour, aims to help young people think about choices. IN MY EXPERIENCE: uses the intimacy of video diaries to explore adolescent relationships. Taking students own lives as a starting point, the films explore relationship issues as they are experienced. Accessible and immediate, the films are designed to initiate wide ranging discussion in the classroom. 3 x 25 minute programmes: 1. Just Good Friends, 2. Dating, 3. Pressure. GROWING UP GAY: takes a lively, accessible and sensitive approach to a difficult subject without preaching. The first programme aims to engage even the most apathetic viewer through strong, compelling drama. The second programme shows five energetic personal films made by young people who live ordinary lives but happen to be gay. 2 x 25 minute programmes: 1. School’s Out , 2. Friends and Lovers. MORE THAN LOVE: the scripts for these three dramas are based on workshops with teenagers. Set in a North London College, they tell the stories of sex, love and friendship, as experienced by three couples over a two week period. 3 x 25 minute programmes, titles: 1. No Respect: How your life can spin out of control when the feelings you have for someone aren’t returned. 2. Break Up: What do you do when romance ends but you still want to be friends? 3. Finding Out: Same sex love, coming out and how your friends and family react. SEX, LOVE & VIDEO DIARIES: learning about attitudes and feelings, looking at behaviour, and helping young people to think about choices are the aims of this work. Based on actual training sessions and classroom practice, four teachers (three secondary and one primary) are shown struggling to teach this kind of education successfully. 1 x 30 minute programme. Interactive Whiteboard compatible. KS3, 4, GCSE+, Scottish Level E, F, SG, NQs. FREE PREVIEW: this DVD is available on 14 day FREE PREVIEW, simply click the option below - an invoice will be issued for any items retained after this time.
Format: DVD Video
Key stage: 3, 4
Age range: 11-19
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Sex Education
Publisher: Birchfield Interactive plc
The UK has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe, putting sex education high on the agenda. This skills based package constitutes a new concept in sex education which is both entertaining and informative. Factual information about intercourse, health issues, contraception and the law is presented clearly and in a way designed to appeal to the target age group. Animations & video combine in delivering a clear message to students. Issues such as growing up, pregnancy, parenting, body awareness are dealt with sensitively, interactive tasks including quizzes and role plays encourage students to think independently about sex and its consequences. Activities are differentiated to challenge able pupils and aid those with special needs. Interactive Whiteboard compatible.
Format: Windows CD-ROM
Key stage: 3, 4
Age range: 11-16+
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