Resilience Toolkit Chapter Two Team Activity

Completing chapter two with your resilience team members

Resources Required: Time: Can be flexible but a good discussion may take up to 2 hours Flip chart / whiteboard for note taking Marker pens Question prompts (see below)

In preparation for your workshop, either cut out the chapter two prompt cards below and have them ready or project the questions onto an IWB.

Chapter two: Whole School Approach1. Considering the questions

The following diagram presents eight principles to promote emotional health and wellbeing in schools and colleges. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/ 414908/

Final_EHWB_draft_20_03_15.pdf

Break your group down to small groups, and look at the diagram. Give the groups a set of the questions below. Ask one person to scribe and allow 15 minutes to gather ideas. Use the 8

principles to enable you to answer the questions. Then discuss your thoughts as a group and agree on a range of answers for each question.

Leadership and management: How is the school or college

providing visible senior leadership for emotional health and

wellbeing?

School ethos and environment: How does the school or college’s

culture promote respect and value diversity?

Curriculum, teaching and learning: What focus is given

within the curriculum to social and emotional learning and promoting

personal resilience, and how is learning assessed?

Student voice: How does the school or college ensure all

students have the opportunity to express their views and influence

decisions?

Staff development, health and wellbeing: How are staff

supported in relation to their own health and wellbeing and to be

able to support student wellbeing?

Identifying need and monitoring impact: How does the school or

college assess the needs of students and the impact of

interventions to improve wellbeing?

Working with parents/carers: How does the school or college work in

partnership with parents and carers to promote emotional

health and wellbeing?

Targeted support: How does the school or college ensure timely and effective identification of

students who would benefit from targeted support and ensure

appropriate referral to support services?

2. Action Planning Once you have spent time considering the questions you need to think about how to test what you think you know, find out missing answers, look at how well existing resilience activity is working and inform your next actions.

Use the ‘Chapter 2 Whole School Approach – Examples of planning next steps’ document to assist you in doing this.

You can also find examples of questionnaires and activities to use with staff and students in the resources document to get. Think about what you need to do to test your answers and gather a greater understanding of your current situation and what you need to do to make your school more resilient.

Record agreed actions on your team action plan.

3. By the end of the session

You should have:

discussed the need for a whole school approach when it comes to resilience considered the differing needs of pupils, staff, parents and the wider community completed the chapter two activity; which helps you ensure consistency across the whole

school adapted and added to your existing action plan