Make me a Superhero!

Session 1 Learning Objective To explore and develop qualities that can contribute to building resilience. Learning Outcomes To understand what ‘resilience’ is To write a definition for the word ‘resilience’ To identify the characteristics of resilient people.

What is Resilience?

Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down! How can the weebles be like people when things go wrong ? Some people seem to be better at bouncing back than others. Why is that?

Challenge With a partner, write a word or draw a picture that says or shows how you can be resilient

Sir Chris Hoy What do you think helps these people to be more resilient? Mo Farah Katie Piper Prof. Robert WinstonEllie SimmondsJessica Ennis J K Rowling

Think What are the characteristics of resilient people? What things would they think, say or do? Michael Jordan ‘failure’ video /watch?v=45mMioJ5szc /watch?v=45mMioJ5szc Y1/2 R/Y1 Sesame Street ’What I am’ video ch?v=cyVzjoj96vs ch?v=cyVzjoj96vs

Session 2

Make me a Superhero! Session 2 Learning Objective To explore and develop qualities that can contribute to building resilience. Learning Outcomes To understand what negative unhelpful thoughts are and how these stop us learning and achieving To identify a time when I have had a negative thought To be able to replace negative thoughts with productive positive ones To have a bank of positive phrases to use in times of need.

What ‘s going on here?

The Inner Chimp – don’t listen to him!

Challenge Think of a time when you have felt really challenged at school. What was your ‘Inner Chimp’ telling you at this time?

Learning LineLearning Line Yippee I’ve got it !!!! What’s next? I feel really proud of myself. I know what I am doing I feel happy and confident I am practising lots and lots I don’t give up! I feel happier I am going to be learning something new. I feel a bit worried I am finding it hard but I know other people will help me. I feel sad

Real Life Superheroes We can’t fly and we don’t have X-ray vision. Being a real-life superhero is about finding your strength and using it to do good, Strong body Good thinking Positive values (empathy, caring, love). Superheroes want to do good for others. They think for themselves They have confidence in their abilities They usually believe that they can do anything that they choose to do. The voice in their head is telling them… I can do it!

Challenge What superhero do you want to be? What is your Inner Chimp telling you? You are not brave enough! Don’t bother doing your best ! You don’t need to Concentrate ! I Give up ! I am too tired !

Challenge Think about what your superhero self would be saying to you when you are facing a new challenge. Make some speaking bubbles with words in that he or she would use to encourage you.

I can…..

“ A hero is an ordinary person who finds strength to keep going and not give up.” Christopher Reeve (A hero is an ordinary person who thinks, does and says the right thing even when it is really difficult.)

Session 3

Make me a Superhero! Session 3 Learning Objective To explore and develop qualities that can contribute to building resilience. Learning Outcomes To identify personal strengths and talents To identify what I need to get better at (for being a superhero) To assert thoughts and feelings.

Challenge Work with a friend Choose one of the powers or skills that your friend has. Explain when you have seen him or her using it.

Patient I am good at waiting Helpful I like to help other people Good problem solver I think carefully about a problem and plan how to deal with it Adventurous I am quite brave and like adventures Athletic I am fit and active Creative I am good at finding interesting ways of doing things Clear thinker I think and remember to help me make decisions Optimistic I always look for good things I expect good things to happen Curious I am interested in everything I like to find out new things Do my best I work hard and very carefully Energetic I always have lots of energy to do new things Good humoured I see the funny side of things I know that we learn from making mistakes i Determined I don’t give up easily Caring I think about other peoples feelings and look after them Calm I think before I say or do something I don’t get angry easily Honest I tell the truth

Challenge Think about a power that you would you like to get better at, maybe something that you find tricky at the moment? How could you learn how to have this power? Make a poster to show it. Write a story about it

Session 4

Make me a Superhero! Session 4 Learning Objective To explore and develop qualities that can contribute to building resilience. Learning Outcomes To identify impulsive behaviour To learn ways to control our behaviour.

Talk About How do these Superheroes control their actions? What happens if they don’t?

Activity 1.How many emotions can we list? 2.Think of what might happen? EmotionWhat might happen? AngerHitting someone

The Worry Bucket Activity On a slip of paper, write down an example of something that makes you feel unhappy or worried, or any one of the negative emotions we’ve talked about. Fold up your paper and place it in the bucket. Challenge! To empty the bucket you must think of a positive idea to help change the worries on the slips. For each positive idea a worry slip can be taken out. Keep a record of the positive suggestions – this will help with your next challenge.

Challenge Think-Act Poster Include the following rule on your poster: STOP!-THINK ? BREATHE 3 things to say or do ACT

Session 5

Make me a Superhero! Session 5 Learning Objective To explore and develop qualities that can contribute to building resilience. Learning Outcomes To understand that sometimes we need the help of others To understand the value of different character traits for different scenarios To know when we might need to ask for help and who we should/could call upon.

Challenge Work together. Choose a situation. Decide on the most useful powers to deal with it. Put the most important one at the top. Put the others underneath in order of how useful they are.

Challenge Who are the other people who can help us solve a problem?

Our Superhero Friends There are more Superhero Friends that we may want to call upon at different times, especially when our problems are very sensitive and tricky to deal with. Which adults could we ask?