Things that are useful, interesting, challenging, enjoyable and, most importantly - not ignored/devalued by exam boards or the government.
Want to learn about mythical beasts and have the class mostly drawing pictures? Do it. Want to spend lessons where students can present various social media claims and you use their skills in assessing the reliability of sources in history to dispel rumour, myth and conspiracies? Do it. Want to have a lesson where students have a chance to say (or submit paragraphs) admitting their greatest fears or things they wanted to say but never could? Do it. Have sessions on gardening/growing vegetable cuttings. Art classes on pretty landscapes/creating art without vast amounts of resources. Onion skin dyes, beetroot juice, using small amounts of spices to create 'paint'. Music classes where the style of music is Skiffle - tins as drums, tables as drums, makeshift instruments. Reading 'nice' poems together online - excerpts from books that are gentle and soothing; from their childhood without analysing structure, a class storytime.
Make it about what's good, what's fun, what's not in a mark scheme or can be assessed.
Art, music, English, drama, all for the joy of it, not because it demonstrates a key competency or is a useful illustration of particular concepts or techniques. Creativity, love, pleasure, comfort, connection. Just being there, together.
Humans have always done these things because they give us joy, comfort, a feeling of connection, community and reassurance. Encourage them to not see beautiful works as things that are to be stripped apart into their individual syllables and vowel sounds, brush strokes or numbers, but for the emotions, the feelings they have.