Summer Activities
These summer themed sets of activities, Character Matters: Summer Activities and Character Matters: Summer of Sport were developed in 2021 by the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues to support parents, carers, and guardians of primarily key stage two aged pupils, but can be adapted for children of all ages. Within the two packs, which can be downloaded via the […]
Early Years Parent Resources
The reading resources and activities below are aimed at children aged between 3 and 5 years old and are arranged according to which virtue or virtues they explore. Compassion and Gratitude Compassion means exhibiting care and concern for each other and gratitude reflects feeling and expressing thanks for kindnesses shown to you. Below is a collection […]
Pre-School Parent Resources
The activities below are aimed at children aged under 3 years and are arranged according to the virtue they explore. In addition, a list of reading resources for each virtue is provided. Compassion and Gratitude Hug Hug is a picture book about a monkey who wants a hug as he has lost his mum. The animals in […]
Thank You Letter Contest
Grateful Britain: Thank You Letter Contest The Jubilee Centre’s Grateful Britain: Thank You Contest for Schools offered pupils the chance to show gratitude to those who have helped them and others during the period since the UK’s lockdown began in March 2020 by writing a thank you letter to someone they believe has made a difference during the pandemic. Pupils […]
Teaching Character: Primary
Teaching Character Through the Primary Curriculum is a programme of study developed for Year 6 pupils (10-11 year olds) to aid in their transition to secondary school. This programme takes an approach of teaching character through eight different curriculum subjects; each subject focuses on one primary, and several secondary character virtues. The programme allows teachers […]
The Character Curriculum
The Character Curriculum offers a full suite of materials for teaching virtues across all year groups through Key Stages 1 – 4 (ages 4-16). Each suite contains detailed lesson plans, accompanying PowerPoint slides and printable resources for each lesson. In addition, there are assembly plans, linked to the lesson topics, for each year group. These […]
My Character
The My Character Feasibility Study ran from May 2011 to April 2014 involving over 1,000 young people throughout the country. While the My Character research has now concluded, the resources are available to schools for free. The aim of the project was to develop a better understanding of how interventions designed to develop character might […]
Character Matters Resources
As pupils return to school for the first time since the UK’s lockdown started in March, the Jubilee Centre has developed a series of classroom resources that engage with the Centre’s Character Matters Campaign, which investigates the ways in which we are helping children to identify and practise good character. Below are teacher lesson plans designed specifically for […]
Flourishing from the Margins
The Flourishing from the Margins resources have been designed to help young people to think about living a ‘good life’ and being a ‘good’ person, and the character strengths they feel that they need to do so. The resources were designed and trialled for use in non-mainstream education settings and are separated into 5 units. Each unit […]
Virtue, Vice and Verse
The Schools of Virtue project explored character education and modes of delivery across a range of sources. One of these was a project which created resources for use with lower secondary pupils to explore character and virtue literacy through poetry, in a project called Virtue, Vice and Verse. The project is trialling 6 lessons, which focus on different […]