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Learning for Life is full of accessible, specialised learning content for parents and educators of young people with learning disabilities. Whether tackling healthy eating, appropriate touch, or consent, we’ve got the materials for you to teach these in a confident and impactful way.

We are a charity. We are committed to providing free access to families and local support groups. All donations and subscription costs go directly towards the future development of Learning for Life.

In your free trial, you receive:

  • 2 videos from a selection of the Learning for Life project

  • All the resources to complete one full session in each of these series - including activities, parent content, and teacher content

The series you have access to are:

  • Growing Up and Keeping Safe

  • Emotions

  • Changing Adolescent Body

  • Respectful Relationships

  • Consent & Decisions

Building skills for life, not just lessons for the classroom.

Our project supports young people with a wide range of learning differences, including Down’s syndrome, autism, and other learning disabilities.

We use our expert knowledge of the learning-disabled community to design resources that are highly focused on their needs. Everything we create is shaped to be clear, practical, and easy to use.

Our teaching follows the English RSE Curriculum, but we also expand it in the areas we know our community needs more support. Building both knowledge and life skills - so young people gain the confidence to use what they learn in everyday life.

Across all our series, we focus on:

  • Practical life strategies – tools and approaches that can be used at home, school, and in the community

  • Safeguarding – helping young people stay safe and supported

  • Skills for independence – supporting confidence, decision-making, and connection

We hope this project supports your learner to build a safe, independent, and connected life.

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What’s available with full Learning for Life access?

We have 10 teaching series and 2 skills series in our Learning for Life project.

    1. Public and Private Places

    2. We All Need Privacy

    3. My Body - I Am A Girl

    4. My Body - I Am A Boy

    5. Public and Private Activities

    6. Appropriate Touch

    7. It's My Body

    8. How Do I Know You?

    9. Touch Control

    10. Personal Space

    1. Happy

    2. Sad

    3. Frightened

    4. Angry

    5. Basic Emotions - Overview

    6. Frustrated

    7. Embarrassed

    8. Worried

    9. Confused

    10. Complex Emotions - Overview

    1. Friendship

    2. Features of Friendship

    3. Identity and Values

    4. Choosing Friends

    5. Making Friends

    6. Caring and Uncaring Friendships

    7. Repairing Friendships

    8. Ending Friendships

    9. Caring Friendships

    1. Item descriptionWhat is Being Healthy?

    2. Looking After Ourselves

    3. Who Can I Talk To?

    4. Being Active

    5. The Importance of Being Active

    6. A Healthy Daily Routine

    7. What is Healthy Eating?

    8. Why is Healthy Eating Important?

    9. Preparing Healthy Meals

    10. Being Healthy

    1. Keep Fit - The Inclusive Coach

    2. Strength - The Inclusive Coach

    3. Yoga - Yo!Kids

    4. Dancing - Tailfeather (1)

    5. Dancing - Tailfeather (2)

    6. Zumba - Move to the Groove (1)

    7. Zumba - Move to the Groove (2)

    8. Booty Barre - ZenergiZe

    9. Pilates - ZenergiZe

    1. Getting Ready

    2. Knife Skills

    3. Using the Hob

    4. Using the Kettle

    5. Cross Contamination

    6. Weighing Ingredients

    7. Opening Tins

    8. Jam on Toast

    9. Fruit Salad

    10. Ham & Cheese Sandwich

    11. Scrambled Eggs on Toast

    12. Sausage & Chips

    13. Pasta with Sauce

    14. Baked Potato

    15. Stir Fry Noodles

    16. Pitta Pizza

    1. Growing and Changing

    2. Puberty and Your Body (Males)

    3. Puberty and Your Body (Females)

    4. Puberty and Your Body (Males & Females)

    5. Puberty Changes - Erections

    6. Puberty Changes - Getting a Period

    7. Puberty Changes - Emotional Rollercoaster

    8. My Changing Body - Keeping Clean

    9. My Changing Body - Hygiene Routine

    1. Your Family

    2. Different Types of Families

    3. Caring Families

    4. Committed Relationships

    5. Family Changes

    6. Sibling Relationships

    7. Finding Help

    8. What have we learnt about families

    1. What is Health and Prevention?

    2. Physical Illness

    3. Sun Safety

    4. The Importance of Sleep

    5. Keeping Clean and Healthy

    6. Harmful Substances

    7. Keeping Safe & Emergencies

    1. Respectful Relationships

    2. Respectful Friendship

    3. Mate Crime

    4. Social Media

    5. Phone Etiquette

    6. Types of Love

    7. Romantic - Starting a Relationship

    8. Romantic - Ending a Relationship

    9. Obsession

    1. The Internet

    2. Online Information and Data

    3. Time Spent Online

    4. Effects of Online Behaviour

    5. Age Restrictions Online

    6. Reporting

    7. Online and Offline Relationships

    8. Real or Fake? Online

    9. Rules for Being Safe Online

    10. Assessing Information Online

    11. Pornography

    1. What is Consent?

    2. Choices & Decisions

    3. Mental Capacity Act

    4. Relationships & Consent

    5. Body Boundaries

    6. Touching Others

    7. Being Touched by Others

    8. Assertiveness

    9. Private or Secret?

    10. Online Consent- Sending Nudes

    11. Consent in everyday situations

As we release new content, this will all be added into your access automatically.

There are roughly 10 videos per series. Each video can be made into at least one teaching session, depending on how quickly you go through the content. Every series and video has specialised content for parents and educators, and can include:

  • Communication Sheets - to send home before sessions to get information to help personalise learning

  • Session Plans - for educators to pick up and use to save time planning your session

  • Recap & Knowledge Checks - assess pre-existing knowledge ahead of the session

  • Activity Resources

  • Student Packs - assess learning after the session

  • Teacher Success Criteria (PDF & Excel) - for teachers to mark progress against the RSE curriculum objectives

  • Take Home Sheets - to send home after sessions to help learning continue at home

  • Parent Checklists - keep track of progress & behavioural change

  • Learner Checklist - for learners who want to take control of their learning and progress

Guidance & FAQs

Looking for more guidance? Find additional information in the FAQs about the Learning for Life project below.

  • Each series has approximately 7-10 videos. In each video, a new element of learning is introduced. This is then explained and explored by the specialist teacher(s), followed by activities for the learner to complete. Prompts are provided to advise which downloadable resources to use for which activity, and when to pause the video to complete the activity. At the end of each video, there is a chance to recap.

    Each series has a bank of resources to support and assess the learner(s)’ progress.

  • You don't have to watch each video in order, however, we recommend that you do. Each series is generally built in such a way that later videos rely on learning from earlier in the series.

    Once you have completed the series, you should go back with your learner and rewatch individual videos, as needed, to consolidate and embed the learning and deepen the understanding.

  • You may choose to watch the series most relevant to the topic you are currently learning. However, please bear in mind, that some series build on knowledge gained from earlier series topics.

    For example, in Growing Up and Keeping Safe, we cover the idea of a ‘Safe Adult’. This is consistently mentioned across following series, encouraging students to talk to their safe adult about any questions or worries they have.

    We would always recommend starting with the Growing Up and Keeping Safe series.

    The series are ordered as follows:

    • Growing Up and Keeping Safe

    • Emotions

    • Caring Friendships

    • Being Healthy

    • Changing Adolesent Body

    While we recommend this; you know your learner best. Personalise the learning to them, and ensure that they feel confident in their learning.

  • Yes. Each activity using Widgit symbols, will have these symbols available to download as part of the resource.

    There is also and additional Widgit symbols section on each resource page, with other useful symbols used throughout the video series.

    These are all free to use as part of our partnership with Widgit and your membership to Learning for Life.

    You can access more symbols and create yourown personalised symbol materials through their software here: Widgit

  • For each series, we have differentiated Worksheets and/or Assessment Sheets to help you to track your learner’s progress across the series. Take a look at these before completing to determine how best to personalise the assessment to your learners’ needs.

  • Learning for Life was created to support in tackling some tough topics, and help protect your young person as they grow up. Specialist teachers explore these topics, and videos are built with the real-life experiences of families with SEND in mind.

    While our resources should be helpful, there is further guidance available:

  • We use the Primary Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education Curriculum in England, as the skeleton of these series, and build on this according to the more specific needs and experiences of our young people with Down’s syndrome/SEND. Every series provides an RSE Objectives sheet (found on the resources page) which provides how the series is linked to the curriculum and the objectives of the series for the learner.

    While we don’t cover every aspect and nuance of the curriculum, we provide a focus on the key concepts and knowledge for the foundation skills our users need.

  • There are many ways to share. Take a look at these webpages and leaflets.