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To help young people learn more about empathy and put it into practice, we've pulled together this collection of classroom resources.

What is Empathy Day

takes place on 6 June 2024, and aims to inspire children and young people to learn more about empathy, have transformational experiences through stories and put empathy into action.

Educators can learn more tips and tools with this Teacher Support article from Miranda McKearney OBE, founder of , who explains how using stories in the classroom can help build empathy in your students.

91热爆 Bitesize: 3 simple ways to increase empathy. document

What empathy is, why it鈥檚 important, and three ways you can hone it as a skill - with Miranda McKearney, founder of Empathy Lab and organiser of Empathy Day.

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Primary resources

Treasure Champs: Empathy - 'The Good Samaritan' collection

This KS1 assembly resource featuring the story of 'The Good Samaritan', from the popular CBeebies series Treasure Champs, explores the value of empathy.

Treasure Champs: Empathy - 'The Good Samaritan'

Feeling Better. collection

A collection of short films for EYFS and KS1 children with Dr Radha Modgil, exploring a range of feelings and emotions as well as providing talking points and tools for feeling better.

Feeling Better

Moodboosters. collection

Fun, simple, curriculum-linked resources to inspire primary-aged children to get moving for mental health and wellbeing. These videos require no extra equipment and can be used flexibly during the school day in a classroom with minimal space.

Moodboosters

Super Mood Movers. collection

Thirteen videos, created in partnership with Children in Need and the Premier League, to enhance the wellbeing of your class with irresistibly catchy songs and easy-to-follow dance routines. Each video supports either the KS1 or KS2 PSHE curriculum, covering themes such as respecting ourselves and others, taking care of our world, and friends and family.

Super Mood Movers

Our Family. collection

In the six short videos in this collection children are introduced to a wide range of family structures, each demonstrating the same love and care for each other.

Our Family

What Makes Me, Me? And Other Interesting Questions. collection

Fun and engaging short films exploring fundamental philosophical concepts through everyday questions that children ask, and adults often struggle to answer.

What Makes Me, Me? And Other Interesting Questions

Seeking Refuge - Real life stories of young people fleeing their homelands. collection

Five animated stories giving a unique insight into the lives of young people who have sought refuge in the UK, told by the children themselves.

Seeking Refuge - Real life stories of young people fleeing their homelands

The Brain Lab. collection

A collection of short films for 7-11 year-olds about mindfulness, the 'five steps to wellbeing', achieving a growth mindset and how our brains work.

The Brain Lab

I Can't Go To School Today. collection

A collection of powerful short films where children explain, in their own words, what it is like to live with various illnesses and allergies.

I Can't Go To School Today

Same But Different. collection

A collection of short films looking at primary children with a range of disabilities, learning differences and medical conditions, that aims to encourage understanding and inclusion, both at school and in the wider world.

Same But Different

Life Stories. collection

Five short dramas exploring emotional issues that children might relate to and learn from. The dramas explore family life and struggles with friendship.

Life Stories

Bringing Books to Life 1. collection

An adventure into the world of children鈥檚 literature as celebrity presenters share what they love about their favourite books including stories by Philip Pullman, Jill Murphy and Roald Dahl.

Bringing Books to Life 1

Bringing Books to Life 2. collection

More adventures into the world of children鈥檚 literature as celebrity presenters share what they love about their favourite book, including stories from Jacqueline Wilson, .Phillipa Pearce and Frank Cottrell Boyce

Bringing Books to Life 2

School Radio - Storytime. collection

A selection of stories from popular picture books - including some 'classics' - and read by well-known voices: Paul Copley, Jane Horrocks, Josie Lawrence and Kerry Shale. Each story is richly illustrated with music and sound effects for children to enjoy.

School Radio - Storytime

School Radio - Audio Stories. collection

Online audio stories for primary children aged 4 - 11.

School Radio - Audio Stories

School Radio - English. collection

Primary English stories and classroom resources utilising the magic of audio to stimulate the imagination of the listener.

School Radio - English

Bitesize Scotland: Mental and emotional wellbeing. collection

A set of articles and videos for upper primary and 2nd level pupils offering tools for dealing with emotions at difficult times.

Bitesize Scotland: Mental and emotional wellbeing

Secondary resources

When I Worry About Things. collection

A collection of short animated films that use powerful personal testimony to explore mental health issues from the perspective of young people.

When I Worry About Things

My Troubled Mind - Stories about teenage mental health. collection

A powerful series of animations using personal testimony to explore mental health issues experienced by teenagers.

My Troubled Mind - Stories about teenage mental health

Growth mindset case studies. collection

A collection of short films that offer case studies of young people demonstrating a growth mindset. Each story introduces us to one of the five steps to wellbeing.

Growth mindset case studies

GCSE Literature Texts. collection

Using original music alongside source quotations, these short films summarise key 19th Century and modern texts for 14-16 year-olds, taking in plot, theme and character.

GCSE Literature Texts

LIT P.D. collection

A series of short films exploring modern English literature texts through a police-style dramatisation.

LIT P.D.