We work with teachers to take our message into schools and education settings, supporting you to deliver mandatory PSHE education.
From breast cancer teaching resources, volunteer-led talks and awareness resources to in-school campaigns, we’ve got you covered.
Our lesson plans help you to educate your students about breast cancer and the importance of monthly chest checking.
Whether you’re teaching a full lesson, assembly, form time or a drop-down day, we have different lengths of lesson plans to support your method of delivery.
You can choose from:
You can also access activities and supporting documents to help make your lesson delivery fun and run as smoothly as possible!
If you’re not keen on delivering a lesson yourself, then we have an amazing team of volunteers who can deliver a 45-minute -1 hour educational talk to your students.
The presentation covers:
You can order our School Materials Pack straight to your school, so you can hand out leaflets, checking cards, badges and more. We also have posters that you can display around school to keep the conversation going.
These resources were designed with expertise from learning disability experts Ansar Projects, part of the Thera Group. The easy-read resource series aims to support anyone with a learning disability, their family and support staff in getting to know their body, checking monthly, and feeling confident to notice any chest changes that are unusual for them.
We have information that may support students whose first language isn’t English. Our checking leaflets include key breast cancer health information that is translated into 7 languages: Arabic, Bengali, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Urdu and Welsh.
The Self-Checkout is our online chest-checking tool that can guide your students through the process of checking. With engaging animated videos and the option to choose their preferred terms, as well as the chance to sign up for text, email and calendar reminders. Signpost your students here for all the checking guidance they need.
The CoppaFeel! Challenge is a one-week awareness challenge created specifically for students at sixth form and colleges.
Working together as a team of 5, your students will work to develop a breast cancer awareness campaign. The aim of your campaign? Spread CoppaFeel!’s breast cancer awareness and checking message – we want young people to know that breast cancer is relevant to them and that they should be checking their chest monthly.
Why get involved?
There are prizes to be won by winning students and runners-up!
Until September 2020, health and relationships education was not compulsory in schools, and it was at each school’s discretion whether they taught the subject, and how.
From September 2020, the Department for Education made this area of education compulsory and provided statutory guidance outlining what schools must cover and at what ages.
All schools have to provide PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic) education that covers health and relationships.
This is something CoppaFeel!, alongside other organisations, had lobbied for over several years through our #ReThinkCancer campaign.
We need to give people the best chance of detecting cancer early, as it will affect 1 in 2 of us in the UK. Starting in schools is the perfect foundation for starting to think about preventing cancer and not just treating it. It's a no brainer really, if it's important to teach us to brush our teeth surely we need to make sure that cancer education is part of every child's education.![]()
