Everything you need to teach Unit F400, Topic Area 1 of the new Cambridge OCR Level 3 AAQ in Mental Health: Individuals and Society!

This is a free sample first Topic Area, let me know what you think!

The bundle provides a complete six-lesson sequence for Topic Area 1: Introducing Mental Health and Wellbeing, followed by a 33-mark topic assessment.

● 1.1: Mental health, emotions and wellbeing
● 1.2: The importance of understanding mental health
● 1.3: Mental health and wellbeing across different life stages

Topics include mental health issues and disorders, emotions, holistic wellbeing, the mental health dual continuum, Jahoda’s six criteria, stigma, life stages and life events.

Materials supplied

• Home-Learning Booklet: pre-reading and post-lesson consolidation for every lesson, designed to introduce key knowledge and progressively develop application and examination skills.
• Home-Learning Self-Assessment Guide: student-friendly answers, model responses and success criteria to support independent marking, correction and reflection.
• PowerPoint for each lesson: six ready-to-teach presentations containing learning objectives, taught content, examples, questions, activity instructions, checks for understanding, examination practice and WAGOLLs.
• Student Resource for each lesson: a stand-alone printable sheet containing everything students need to complete the activities referenced in the matching PowerPoint.
• Topic Area 1 Assessment: a 33-mark assessment designed for approximately 40 minutes, using SAM-style questions and unfamiliar scenarios.
• Assessment Mark Scheme: detailed, non-specialist-friendly marking guidance, including indicative content, model answers, banded guidance for the extended response and student DIRT activities.

The materials are mapped to the Cambridge OCR F400 specification, Version 3 (June 2026).

Any issues, please let me know! Further topic areas will also be available and I hope to have the entire course mapped out and completed by the end of 2026.

My email is alzionts+TES@gmail.com