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The BIG 5 Toolkit for RSHE

5 BIG Thinking Routines for Safe Uncertainty

‘How to think, not what to think’

Helping educators facilitate critical thinking and emotional intelligence in the classroom

1. Our Class CONNECT Code

Ground rules that build connection and a group agreement for exploring complex RSHE and PSHE topics.

2. Silent Sitting Mindfulness Tracks

A menu of 15 thematic tracks to choose from to calm minds ready for your RSHE session. Designed by a child meditation expert.

3. The BIG 5 Life Skills: for making Mindful Choices

25 social and emotional learning competencies for Life linked to 5 BIG SEL skills: Self-Regulation, SelfAwareness, Building Relationships, Mindful Choices and Social Awareness. Small-step life skills that educators can model and pupils can practise during RSHE and the wider curriculum so they become helpful habits for life.

4. The BIG Feelings & Life Skills Compass

A resource to name and identify a range of feelings and social-emotional life skills, to be used as a general plenary or to discuss the emotions of characters in the BIG stories.

5. BIG Stories for Empathy

Bite-size short stories with discussion questions for assembly or classroom, featuring relatable characters and covering a vast range of topics from chatbot friendships to misogyny.