Dove Self-Esteem Project UK – For Secondary Schools

The Dove Self-Esteem Project empowers young people to embrace their uniqueness and think critically about media influences. The free, evidence-based resources have been written by experts and include everything you need to carry out engaging, curriculum-aligned body confidence lessons.

Confident Me Resources (ages 11-14)

Teach your pupils important strategies to protect and build self-confidence with the Confident Me programme. Confident Me is helping secondary school teachers meet national curriculum objectives in statutory health education, PSHE, health & wellbeing, and literacy across learning.

It’s competition time!

Challenge students to design a poster that will spread confidence, kindness, and positive self-esteem around school. Using topics from the free Dove Self-Esteem resources, students will broadcast key themes around positive self-worth.

The winning entry will receive a pack of branded Dove goodies for their class, along with a bundle of self-esteem books!

PLUS, all schools to enter will be placed into a free prize draw to win a bundle of self-esteem books for their school library! 10 winners will be picked at random.

Enter your students’ ‘Spread the Confidence’ posters into the competition by taking a picture of their work and sending it to doveselfesteem@nationalschoolspartnership.com.

To access the competition entry PDF, simply download any of the Confident Me resources to receive your copy.

The programme includes:

Confident Me (5-lesson-pack)
Five x 50-minute lessons on appearance ideals, media messages, body comparisons, body talk and how to become a body confidence champion.

Confident Me (single lesson)
One x 50-minute lesson on appearance pressures, body comparisons, challenging appearance ideals and building body confidence. The single lesson includes one teacher guide with a plan for the session, one PPT slide deck and worksheets.

My Hair, My Crown (single lesson)
A 2-hour session exploring hair beauty stereotypes

Proud To Be Me (single lesson)

A 2-hour session on the impact appearance norms and ideals have on the LGBTQ+ community (Proud To Be Me).

Running alongside the programmes are a series of take home resources for parents and carers. These include the Dove Confidence Kit and 5 Mini Lessons.

Plus, check out the BRAND-NEW Content Map and Teacher Calendar, helping you to keep track of the key teaching moments across the school year.

All resources can be delivered flexibly within health education lessons, during tutor time or even as part of an assembly. Each lesson includes a teacher guide with a lesson plan, PPT slide deck, videos and activity sheets.

“The sessions were EXTREMELY beneficial to my students. It will no doubt make them think twice about images and videos they see posted online in the future. The message of accepting you for who you are was also very evident through all the sessions and what a great message that was for them all to take away with them.” Secondary School Teacher

Students will learn to:

• Examine the impact of unrealistic expectations for body image and unhealthy or obsessive comparison with others both online and offline.
• Critically explore how the media presents information: distinguishing fact from fiction.
• Talk about their emotions, recognise the signs of early mental wellbeing concerns and take part in structured discussions with their peers.
• Explore their own uniqueness and learn how to shift the conversation away from appearances.

Join a community of teachers across the UK who are encouraging their pupils to become more self-aware and reach their potential with the Dove Self-Esteem Project.

To access Dove Self-Esteem for Primary schools, click here.

*T&Cs apply. Download by 14th December 2023. Click here for full details.