PREPARATION FOR THE HEADSTART ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE 2017 a guide for pupils These slides are for Year 7 and Year 9 pupils to introduce them to the HeadStart survey 2017. Please adapt these as you see fit.

Let’s have a look together at what sort of things it will ask you…. Your school is one of the first HeadStart schools in Newham and in the whole country. We are working together to help your school build your resilience to the challenges you face and help you with your emotional wellbeing. To help us get this right for YOU, all Year 7 pupils and all Year 9 pupils in HeadStart schools will complete an online questionnaire. Let’s have a look together at what sort of things it will ask you…. This slide explains the HeadStart programme and the purpose of the questionnaire

The online questionnaire will ask you to think about: 1. Your feelings and thoughts 2. Your strengths and difficulties 3. How you manage your feelings and stress This provides an overview of the sections of the survey The survey will take between 30-40 minutes to complete 4. Important/positive relationships in your life 5. How other people in school relate to you

1 3 2 4 5 1: Feelings and thoughts Name these feelings Fear Disgust Anger Images taken from the film “Inside Out” and task is warm up to vocab to talk about feelings 4 Joy 5 Sadness

2. Strengths and difficulties A B C D E F getting angry quickly helping/supporting others being kind and a role model A B C getting into fights sharing with others easily scared Can pupils guess what the pictures depict relating to strengths and difficulties D E F What do these pictures represent? How true for YOU?

Are these linked to strengths or difficulties? 1. lose my temper 2. restless 3. nice 4. lying 5. worry 6. volunteer 7. distracted 8. cheating 9. share 10. care 11. take things that are not mine Pupils group the Strengths and Difficulties, allows pupils to explore some of the language contained in questionnaire 12. tearful 13. nervous 14. helpful 15. down-hearted 16. think before I act

Strengths Difficulties 1. lose my temper 2. restless 3. nice 4. lying 5. worry 6. volunteer 9. share 7. distracted 8. cheating 10. care 11. take things that are not mine The answers 12. tearful 13. nervous 14. helpful 15. down-hearted 16. think before I act

What do you do that works for you? 3. Managing feelings What do you do that works for you? Talk about various emotions and how to manage them

3. Managing Stress What does this picture represent? What causes you stress? How do you manage it? Explore different strategies they use already 3. Managing Stress

4. Important/positive relationships in your life This section explores the different relationships and role models in your life YOU 4. Important/positive relationships in your life

YOU 5. How do other students in school relate to you? How do they treat you? YOU Encourage pupils to be objective and see themselves through others’ eyes. How are they treated? Get them to give examples

Getting started – click on the survey link The next slides take pupils through the different steps in the process

Enter your unique password, provided by the teacher

 if you want to take part Read survey info  if you want to take part

Multiple choice responses Hover over boxed words for meaning

You know you’ve reached the end when…

And if you finish early… Go to ‘youngminds.org’ review resources for children and young people Design a PowerPoint about ‘Wellbeing’ and what it means to you This is an optional activity. Schools can select another activity if they prefer.

How long will it take to complete? You’ll have up to 40 mins – take your time What kind of questions are they? Questions have multiple choice answers What if I don’t understand a word? Boxed words give different meanings if you hover over them (this function doesn’t work on iPads) Do I have to answer every question? You can skip a question if you don’t want to answer it Are my answers confidential? Your teachers/school/parents won’t see your answers. Overall survey results will be given at the school-level providing a picture of the wellbeing of pupils. Individual pupils will not be identifiable. What if I need support after doing the survey? If you need to talk to someone after doing the survey, speak to your Form Tutor For more information, contact: Valdeep.Gill@newham.gov.uk A list of questions that it might be useful to explore with pupils