PSHE Mental Health & Resilience Cards

Mental Health & Resilience Pack – Part of the Web of Lives Series

Support your students in building confidence, coping strategies, and emotional wellbeing with this ready-to-use classroom resource. Designed for secondary school / high school students (ages 13–17), this pack helps teachers facilitate safe, strengths-based discussions about challenges, resilience, and hope.

Curriculum relevance:

• UK: Statutory Health Education (mental wellbeing, resilience, coping with stress), PSHE, Citizenship (rights & responsibilities), Equality Act (protected characteristics).
• US: High School Health Education (mental health, stress management, healthy coping), Social-Emotional Learning (SEL competencies: self-awareness, self-management, relationship skills), Civics/Advisory programs.

What’s inside:

• Scenario cards exploring common challenges (stress, friendship breakdowns, identity struggles, online pressures)
• Teacher guidance for group work, safe discussion, and reflective closure activities
• Prompts for empathy-building, peer support, and collective resilience strategies
• Flexible use: circle time, advisory periods, PSHE lessons, or extended projects

Why teachers love it:

• Encourages group discussion and peer empathy
• Builds resilience through strengths-based reflection
• Ready-to-use, adaptable for short or extended sessions
• Links seamlessly with other Web of Lives packs (Identity & Inclusion, Bullying & Belonging, Choices & Consequences, Lives Behind the Labels, Sex & Relationships, Issues in Focus).

About the Web of Lives Series: Each pack in the series uses relatable character stories to spark dialogue on identity, inclusion, resilience, and relationships. Together, they form a whole-school approach to SEL, PSHE, and Citizenship — helping students explore challenges while foregrounding hope, empathy, and practical strategies.

Bring resilience education to life with stories that resonate, empower, and make wellbeing a communal practice.

All resources in this shop are created by InclusiveEd (Jennifer Darch) and are protected under UK and international copyright law. By purchasing or downloading these materials, you are granted a single‑user licence for personal classroom use only.

You may:

• Use the resources in your own classroom or educational setting.
• Print or adapt them for your direct teaching needs.

You may not:

• Share, resell, or redistribute the resources in any form (digital or printed).
• Upload them to other websites, platforms, or shared drives.
• Claim the content as your own or remove copyright notices.

For wider use (e.g., whole‑school licences, training programmes, or commercial projects), please contact me directly to discuss extended permissions.