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Lesson 4: Resilience: Celebrating mistakes

Adopting a growth mindset is explored to develop a more positive perspective on making mistakes, seeing them as learning opportunities rather than barriers.

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Learning objective

To develop a growth mindset and understand that mistakes are useful

National curriculum

All schools should make provision for personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE), drawing on good practice.

The PSHE Association Programme of Study recommends that pupils are taught:

H20. strategies to respond to feelings, including intense or conflicting feelings; how to manage and respond to feelings appropriately and proportionately in different situations
H29. about how to manage setbacks/perceived failures, including how to re-frame unhelpful thinking

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Download classroom resources

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Should work in mixed ability pairs. For the mind map activity, they might need to have the examples displayed nearby to help base their ideas on.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should describe different examples and contexts of mistakes and can explain how they are helpful.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

In this unit

Created by:

Elaine Bousfield,

Wellbeing specialist

Elaine worked for many years as a therapist with young people. She is the founder and chair of XenZone and its children and young people’s counselling service, kooth.com. Kooth delivers an online counselling and therapy service. It is also an online community…

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