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Lesson 4: Resilience: Resilience toolbox

Reflecting on the different resilience strategies that stem from past experiences to help create a resilience toolbox to help prepare for any challenges in the future.

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Learning objective

To reflect on skills already developed to identify and respond to difficult situations

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 pupils are taught:

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: Could use the Activity: Resilience strategies list to help them with their ideas.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should articulate the importance of resilience by referencing the ideas behind a growth mindset and share ways in which they have shown resilience.

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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