The I Am Me Scotland resources encourage children and young people to recognise and understand the range of disabilities, including hidden disabilities. Designed to be progressive, the lessons highlight the impact of bullying and the consequences of hate crime, whilst encouraging children to be inclusive and embracing of difference.

Explore the resource

'I Am Me Scotland' is a multi-award winning charity working towards changing attitudes and behaviours so that disabled and vulnerable people can feel safe within their communities. The charity works in partnership with Police Scotland to raise awareness of and tackle disability hate crime.

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Primary: #MakeaDifference

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Watch on YouTube: UNCRC Scotland

Improvement questions

• How well do we ensure that all children feel safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected, responsible and included?
• How confident are education staff in tackling disability bullying and hate crime?

These lessons provide educators with a suite of online, interactive resources that have been designed with videos and animations from pre-school through to Primary 7.

The lessons educate children about the range of disabilities, the impact of bullying and the consequences of hate crime. There are also additional lessons available on Dementia Awareness, UNCRC, Down’s syndrome Awareness and many more.

Secondary: I Am Me

I Am Me is an online, interactive platform for secondary schools, including a video library and lessons for hate crime awareness.

Secondary: Hate

This interactive on-line learning resource, aimed at students and young people from S3 onwards, has been developed by I Am Me Scotland in collaboration with Police Scotland and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), Scotland’s prosecution service.

Hate crime is any crime that is perceived by the victim, or any other person witnessing an incident, to be motivated, wholly or in part, by hostility towards a social group. Hate crime falls into five categories:

• disability
• race
• religion
• sexual orientation
• transgender identity

The ‘You Judge’ resources encourages students and young people to consider the causes and consequences of hate crime on the victims, their families and friends, as well as how the outcome affects the lives of the perpetrators of such crimes.

Watch on YouTube: You Judge! Trailer

Alcohol and Substance Resources

Watch on YouTube: Alcohol and Substance Awareness Education

Lesson packs

Early years and primary lesson packs

• Zac and Ella keep safe: early years and nursery pack
• Keeping safe: alcohol and substance primary 1
• Making good decisions: alcohol and substance primary 2
• Medication and consequences: alcohol and substance primary 3
• Medication and peer pressure: alcohol and substance primary 4
• Substances: alcohol and substance primary 5
• Substances and risks: alcohol and substance primary 6
• Medication and peer pressure: alcohol and substance primary 7

Secondary lesson packs

• S1 alcohol and substance awareness
• S2 alcohol and substance awareness
• S3 alcohol and substance awareness
• S4 alcohol and substance awareness
• S5 alcohol and substance awareness

All lessons can be accessed on the I Am Me Scotland Learning Platform.

Free usernames and passwords can be requested by emailing iamme@renfrewshire.gov.uk or iammescotland@outlook.com

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PDF file: Primary lessons (411 KB)