HELP CHILDREN IN UPPER KS2 DEVELOP CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS WITH THIS ENGAGING AND INNOVATIVE MEDIA LITERACY LESSON FOR UPPER KS2

This lesson can be used as a stand-alone lesson or as an extension lesson to the Upper KS2 Body Image Scheme of Work.

Media literacy can be defined as the ability to access, analyse, evaluate, create and act using all forms of communication (National Association for Media Literacy Education, (NAMLE)). Our modern world presents numerous and diverse media platforms to students, and engagement with these platforms is high and ever increasing.

Media literacy teaches students how to engage critically with the barrage of information they consume, whether that be online, on television, radio, in print and more. These skills are useful for many other subjects, including Literacy, Science and Information Technology and, as such, this lesson will also complement an English, Science and ICT curriculum, as well as your school’s PSHE provision.

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✔ Meet national curriculum requirements with ease - no time consuming planning or expert experience required to deliver these sessions.

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✔ Complements curricula for core subjects including English and Science, as well as ICT.

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WE’RE A BODY IMAGE ORGANISATION, WHY HAVE WE CREATED A MEDIA LITERACY TEACHING RESOURCE?

In order to help young people build better body image, they need to be equipped to engage critically with the messages they encounter in the media around bodies and appearance. This also extends to the mass of (mis)information online around health and ‘wellness’.

Empowering students to evaluate such information will not only help their own personal self-esteem and body image but will impact the way they treat others too. This lesson will not only help students develop their media literacy and critical thinking skills, which are useful for all subjects, including English and Science. It will also help to improve their body image literacy, body image resilience and body image advocacy skills too.

THIS TEACHING PACK INCLUDES:

💡 Lesson plan overview with rationale and curriculum links

💡 PowerPoint slides with teaching notes (including quiz, class discussion and links to multi-media clips)

💡 Breakout activity sheets: Uncovering the Sources and Becoming a Media Detective

💡 Impact measurement tool to monitor learning outcomes and share impact insights with The Body Happy Organisation CIC.

SAMPLE THE GOODS

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Please note: in September 2024 we were announced as winners of The Fair Education Alliance Awards. As part of this win we’ve received funding and support to develop The Body Happy Schools Programme, the UK’s first whole school 360-degree programme fostering classroom cultures of body respect and help children and young people celebrate, respect and accept ALL bodies - especially their own. We’re currently developing, piloting and fundraising to scale this programme. It will roll out in September 2025, at which point our current offering will be absorbed into the programme and we’ll be reviewing many individual aspects of our provision including access many of the resources within our Teaching Hub individually, outside of the whole school programme.