Lyfta's Year of Values is a structured, story-led course that supports pupils’ personal development, wellbeing, respectful relationships, resilience, inclusion, responsibility and active citizenship.
This module introduces students to themes of identity, belonging, diversity, equality and challenging prejudice. Across the six lessons we encounter real human stories from Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Pakistan and London, through which students are encouraged to reflect critically and relationally on what respect and inclusion mean in different contexts, and how these values shape their own communities and lives.
Students encounter themes of emotional literacy, care for others, and understanding hardship. We explore real human stories spanning Turkey, Finland, Denmark and Curaçao in the Caribbean, prompting students to think critically about how compassion operates at both personal and societal levels, consider multiple perspectives, and practise empathy through dialogue and relational thinking.
Here, students focus on adversity, recovery, ethical courage, and voice. Through the stories of individuals and communities responding to challenge and injustice in Uganda, Hong Kong, and Holland, students explore how courage and resilience are developed over time.
This module develops elements of confidence, aspiration, effort, and learning through challenge. This time we visit Belgium and Somaliland to meet real people with stories of belonging, encouragement, growth mindsets, positive influence and opportunity.
Bringing together strands of environmental responsibility, ethical decision-making and collective action, this module leads students to consider PSHE themes including agency, sustainability, shared responsbility, global citizenship, and respectful debate. Our human stories take us to deserts of western China, a transfomative community in Ethiopia, gibbon guardians in Assam, India, and a marine scientist studying underwater sounds in Colombia.
Aspiration and gratitude rounds the year-long course off with reflections on opportunity, purpose, representation and contribution. Students develop emotional resilience and understanding of purpose, responsibility to others, ethical embition and participation. Stops along the way include visits to 10-year-old Asalif in Ethiopia, Donya and Cathy, two formidable space scientists working for NASA on the Lucy mission, and Shahnaz, eldest daughter in a nomadic family living in a mountainous region of Iran, who dreams of becoming a writer but fights against a patriarchal society with different expectations for her.
Our award-winning storyworlds present people, places and perspectives from around the world to show diverse cultures and ways of life in an authentic and relatable way.
A two year academic study has shown that using Lyfta reduces social anxiety around meeting people from different backgrounds and identities.
Bring the topics you are teaching to life with impactful learning experiences that will build character and foster a sense of belonging.
Our lovingly and expertly-made interactive resources link with all curriculum subjects so that you can start teaching with Lyfta on day one.
