We’ve worked with The Rez to produce two key stage 2 lessons for the classroom component of their sci-fi adventure series — exploring the importance of kindness and how to recognise kind and unkind behaviours.

The lessons are designed to be used in mainstream and special school settings. Each engaging activity provides four alternative options for pupils with SEND, or pupils who require additional support, as well a challenge activity for pupils in Year 5/6, or pupils who require additional challenge.

The story and bright visual aspects of these lesson plans will help you appeal to pupils’ imagination throughout and explore the topic of kindness a fun and engaging way. The scenarios and characters used are from The Rez podcast and comic book series.

Synopsis
Preen and Sav, two friends living in a future where all their needs are catered for, are starting to wonder if they’re missing something: simple human kindness. One day, Sav finds a phone in a pile of ‘old tech’, and realises she can use it to contact ‘Pastlings’ — the children of the 2020s! She teams up with the one-time mega-influencer Preen, and together they use messages to contact present day children. Their goal is to work out what ‘kindness’ is and how they bring kindness back to their own time.

About The Rez 
The Rez is an exciting collaboration between a team of academics at the University of Sussex, the social impact company Make (Good) Trouble and Arts Council England. Created by recent UK Comic Laureate Hannah Berry, alongside a team of writers and psychologists, it contains pro-social and emotional wellbeing messaging about friendship and kindness.