Mental Health and Resilience - Teaching and learning activities for NZC Levels 6-8 - Copy templates

Aug 30, 2026

Copy templates for teaching and learning activities that support mental health and resilience across NZC Levels 6–8. Activities are designed for NCEA health education goals and include prompts aligned to available achievement standards, plus classroom-ready materials such as quote and whakataukī inspiration tasks, personal and interpersonal skills cards, listening and discussion starters, and assertiveness scenario worksheets. Template options also cover storyboarding for assertiveness, negative feedback guidelines, DESC-model responses, negotiation and joint problem-solving cartoons, and structured work on compliments, conflict influences, and wellbeing impacts.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryPaper Templates

FormatDOCX

Pages194

Reading Time1 h 8 min

AccessFree to download

NCEA-focused planning prompts

Achievement standards selection for health education goals

Inspirational and wellbeing activities

Using sayings and whakataukī to lift the spirit

Personal and interpersonal skill activities

Personal and interpersonal skills cards

Effective listening conversation ideas

Receiving compliments

Assertiveness and conflict communication

Assertiveness skills situations

Storyboard template for assertiveness demonstration

Negative feedback: what NOT to do

Applying the DESC model

Negotiation

Joint problem solving cartoon strip

Relationships and conflict case templates

Situations for demonstrating assertiveness and managing social pressure

Personal, interpersonal, and societal influences on conflicts in relationships

Impact of conflict on wellbeing

Mental Health and Resilience: Teaching and learning activities for NZC Levels 6-8 COPY TEMPLATES Author: Jenny Robertson First published 2018 2nd edition 2021 © NZHEA © Jenny Robertson ISBN 978-0-473-42994-2 New Zealand Health Education Association (NZHEA) PO Box 63, Lyttelton 8841, New Zealand Website HYPERLINK "https://healtheducation.org.nz/" https://healtheducation.org.nz/ Email HYPERLINK "mailto:admin@healtheducation.org.nz" admin@healtheducation.org.nz Recommended citation: Robertson, J. (2021). Mental Health and Resilience: Teaching and learning activities for NZC Levels 6-8. NZ: New Zealand Health Education Association (NZHEA). Available from HYPERLINK "https://healtheducation.org.nz/resources/" https://healtheducation.org.nz/resources/ Copy template For success in NCEA, your teacher will need to decide in broad terms which topics you will focus on, although there will be some choice within these broad topics. Thinking now about your NCEA goals in health education … (Select NCEA levels appropriate to course.) Listed below are the Achievement standards available to you in this course Q1. Thinking about your NCEA programme and the number of credits you want to gain from health education, which health standards do you aim to achieve this year? Copy template Copy template Copy template Copy template Taking inspiration from sayings and whakataukī Use an internet search to find an inspirational quote or whakataukī that you like, and which says something to ‘lift the spirit’ and promote mental and emotional wellbeing. Copy template Copy template Cards: Personal and interpersonal skills for maintaining friendships and relationships Copy template Graffiti sheet headings Copy template Effective listening conversation ideas What do you think about our school uniform? What do you want to achieve during the rest of your time here at school? How did you spend your last summer holiday? What news item is of interest to you at the moment? What was the most enjoyable movie you have seen recently? What do you think are the best things about our school / our community / our town / our city? What are your views on … [a current event in the community or media]? How well do you think our school supports the diversity of all people? What do you like to do most when you’re not at school? What foods do you most like to eat? Which social media platform do you like to use? What do you think the biggest problem is facing New Zealand and/or the world? Copy template Ideas for situations for demonstrating assertiveness skills You’re at party. Most people are drinking heavily and getting drunk. You don’t want to drink (decide the reasons why). Your friends are pressuring you to drink, and calling you names, making fun of you (etc.) for not joining in … You’re at school. A group of students think it would be a laugh to take a photo of one of the socially shy students when they are getting changed in the changing rooms, but they need to ‘set it up’ to get the person in a position to take the photo (they usually hide in one of the stalls to change). The group target you to help them because they think you know this person well enough that they will trust you … You’re at home. You’ve got NCEA assessments due. You’ve made a homework plan to help you finish them on time and fit in sports practice. However mum and dad want you to help around the house over the weekend and expect you to look after your younger siblings after school until they get home from work, all of which takes away several hours of your planned homework time … You’re socialising with friends. They are comparing themselves to pictures of celebrities (sports people, actors, etc.) who are celebrated for their attractive body appearance. They are pointing out each other’s body parts that look most like those in the photos, and making suggestions about what they could do to look like that (diet, exercise or lift weights, take prot

FAQs

How do these copy templates help students plan for NCEA in health education?

They include prompts that ask students to consider their NCEA programme, credit goals, and which achievement standards they aim to achieve in health education for the year.

What kinds of wellbeing and mental health activities are included?

Templates support finding inspirational quotes or whakataukī to lift the spirit, alongside activities that build personal and emotional wellbeing through reflective prompts and structured classroom tasks.

How are assertiveness, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills practiced?

The templates provide scenario-based exercises, a storyboard format for demonstrating assertiveness, guidance on what not to do when giving negative feedback, and structured tools for applying the DESC model, negotiating, and joint problem solving.

Aug 30, 2026

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