Remembering What Education Forgot

“Learning About Life”

THE CHALLENGE

As young people journey through education, their backpacks fill with facts and formulas. But the future awaiting them asks for more. Anxiety rises. Social pressures tighten. Climate change darkens the horizon. No textbook prepares them for this. Learning About Life fills that gap.

These resources are offered as a gift, trusting that together we can grow the kind of learning the world is calling for

BUILDING
PERSONAL FOUNDATIONS

NURTURING
SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS

GROWING
EARTH FOUNDATIONS

THE FOUNDATIONS

Young people need more than knowledge to thrive, they need strong foundations for life. To know themselves. To belong with others. To feel their place in the living world. These are not extras, they are essentials. Research across psychology, neuroscience and ancient wisdom all points to the same truth: without them, no education is whole.

THE JOURNEY

Imagine a classroom where learning feels alive. Where a lesson does not begin with facts to remember but with a question that opens space. What does happiness really mean? What can I learn from other cultures? What is my relationship with nature? Here, wisdom is not delivered, it is discovered.

THE PEDAGOGY

Students think with their heads, feel with their hearts and act with their hands. They reflect, they question, they try things out together. A lesson becomes less like a lecture and more like a campfire. A place to pause, share stories and find meaning. Classrooms calm. Relationships strengthen. Conversations deepen. This is where education matters most. Not in what we know, but in who we become.

  • The lessons have left such a positive feeling in our class, recognising that by working together we can help care for ourselves, each other and the planet.

    Sarah Bowley | Y5 teacher | Manor Park School

  • I just love teaching ThoughtBox lessons. Thank you for making it so easy and so very interesting and engaging for us all!

    Jo Parkes | Head of Department | St Francis School Pewsey

  • The children are really loving the ThoughtBox content and are responding to it brilliantly. Thank you so much.

    Corinna Travis | Deputy Head | Abbey Gate College

  • I am absolutely loving the ThoughtBox primary resources. They provoke brilliant conversation and philosophical thinking. Thank you for putting this brilliant curriculum together!

    Mary Lawson | Head of Juniors | Wallhampton Prep

  • The ThoughtBox lesson plans are high quality, easy to use and highly informative. Their innovation and relevance have enhanced our curriculum exponentially. Thank you for creating such thoughtful, evocative and inspiring lessons.

    S Hosty | Assistant Headteacher | Manchester Health Academy

  • We love ThoughtBox! Because the activities are so interactive, it means that students are very active and fully engaged during class discussions and paired activities. Guided questions really allow everyone to contribute meaningful ideas as well as learning to ask thought-provoking questions during the lessons.

    Marloes Herber | Deputy Head – Kivukoni School

  • Since using the ThoughtBox curriculum, there is a buzz in the air: pupils and teachers have embraced it and it has become part of the school culture.

    Jon Whybrow | Headteacher | Amesbury Prep School

  • It seems to me that you have encompassed what education is truly about…learning to live, to be, to think and to respond in a way that teaches us to be fully human…

    Anita Van Rossum | Director | Earth Protector Schools

Download Resources

Every kit is a backpack of ready-to-go inquiries, designed to open space for what really matters in the classroom. Each resource is a adaptable canvas, an editable PowerPoint you can open, shape and make your own. Use it for 15, 30 or 60-minute inquiries across the curriculum.

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Differentiated for learners aged 5-18

450+ editable PowerPoint lessons

Supports OFSTED standards

“Learning About Life resources draw on more than a decade of action research in regenerative education and align with the Triple WellBeing® Framework. For schools, this means real substance behind a simple promise: education is not only about knowing, it is about becoming. Young people grow courage to face uncertainty, kindness to walk alongside others and awareness of everyday choices that shape their world.”

Rachel Musson, ThoughtBox Director of Education

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