The Bina programme is a Key Stage 3 (KS3) PSHE resource that helps 11-13 year olds learn and understand how they make decisions, improve their problem solving skills and teach them about making good judgements. The framework around nine themes helps teachers and educators talk about related issues within the context of the themes:
- Integrity
- Respect
- Search for excellence
- Dealing with disappointment
- Reliability
- Courage
- Loyalty
- Accountability
- Determination
When you expose students at an early age to concepts on decision making and how to evalute consequences, you give them a better foundation to develop problem solving skills and the ability to make better choices.
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Based on graphic illustrated stories around five teens dealing with every day issues your pupils can relate to, the Bina programme offers the opportunity for them to individually reflect and evaluate the issues raised within each lesson; form their own opinion, suggest alternative answers, and also engage in a debate as they consider other points of view.
This process doesn’t focus on the right or wrong answers but aims to improve their understanding on how and why they make decisions, solve problems and making judgements based on information provided.
“The content seems highly appropriate for Key Stage 3, and the introduction of cross-curricular approaches to learning such as ‘problem-based learning’ and critical thinking, a coherent programme like this encourages and enables young people to consider ethical and character issues, and will be of considerable value to pupils and teachers”
- Ralph Leighton
Principal Lecturer in Education, Programme Director
Canterbury Christ Church University
