Designed to equip children with strategies to manage worry and anxiety, this resource set features a storybook paired with an adult guide. The storybook engages young readers while the guide offers insights for adults to help preemptively address feelings of anxiety, fostering a supportive environment for emotional well-being.
Written as the adult accompaniment to the Ruby, Rafa and Riz storybook, this resource explores behaviour with strategies for supporting children who struggle to manage their responses and behaviours; and the role of the adult in recognising signs, de-escalation, connection and reflection.
Designed for use alongside the storybook Myg and Me: Understanding Anxiety and Implementing Self-Calming, Teachers, support staff, therapists and parents will find this guidebook an indispensable tool in the process of helping children they interact with to feel a sense of self-determination and self- efficacy.
This charming storybook introduces Myg the Amygdala within the context of 'my brilliant brain' - giving children usable knowledge to help them understand what happens when they feel worried or anxious.
This storybook tells the story of Ruby, Rafa and Riz as each child has an experience that affects them. Their teacher notices the behaviour of each child which leads to him asking how they are feeling and what they are thinking, enabling each child to talk about their emotions and so helping the adult to understand their behaviour.
For effective use, this book should be purchased alongside the storybook - Something Has A Storybook. This programme of activities, created to be used alongside the storybook, Something Has Happened , has been designed to help children develop their own internal measure of safety, and teaches them how to ask for help if they feel unsafe. The sessions and activities in this book directly correlate to episodes in the storybook Something Has Happened , covering the fundamental aspects of safeguarding as well as elements of the Protective Behaviours (PB) process. Taking adults and children through a wide range of discussion points and activities, all underpinned by clear guidance, it acts as a starting point to help children understand that being safe from harm is the most important right they have and that the trusted adults around them will always take action to believe and protect them. Key features of this resource With a concise and accessible introduction to the right to feel safe and Protective Behaviours, this is an invaluable resource for teachers, support staff and other professionals working with both primary and lower-secondary aged children.
"This is a practical resource for use by teachers, support staff, and therapists that contains session ideas for use with children to promote kindness, friendship and self-compassion. It includes detailed lesson plans with extensive guidance and photocopiable activity sheets to support individuals, groups or classes of children aged from 6 - 11 years of age. This guidebook can be used to: Help children understand the value of kindness, both to themselves and to others Nurture the moral development of children Support children who may be struggling with self-worth and self-kindness This guidebook is available to purchase as part of a two-component set, Negotiating the World of Friendships and Relationships: A 'Cool to be Kind' Storybook and Practical Resource, that can be used by teachers, support staff and therapists to teach and promote kindness to primary aged children"--
This unique set includes a storybook and practical guidebook. It is a powerful resource that can be used by teachers and support staff to highlight the importance of kindness. The storybook introduces Coco, Otto, Ollie and Ling as they negotiate the sometimes tricky world of friendships and relationships, observing the unkindness of some and using their superpower - kindness - to change the lives of others. Explore with them what it means to be unkind, why that choice is sometimes made and how usually there is another choice - to be kind. The guide that accompanies this book has detailed lesson plans with extensive guidance and photocopiable activity sheets to support individuals, groups or classes of children aged 7 and upwards. This set includes: Cool to be Kind: How to Negotiate the World of Friendships and Relationships - an illustrated storybook that explores and emphasises the importance of kindness A Practical Resource for Negotiating the World of Friendships and Relationships - a practical resource for use by teachers, support staff and therapists that contains details of sessions to use with children to promote kindness, friendship and self-compassion This set is a must-have resource for therapists, teachers and support staff in primary schools, particularly for use within primary PSHE lessons, to teach and promote kindness.
Coco, Otto, Ollie, and Ling negotiate the sometimes tricky world of friendships and relationships, observing the unkindness of some and using kindness to change the lives of others.
For effective use, this book should be purchased alongside the guidebook- Guide for Safeguarding and Supporting Children’s Right to Feel Safe. Something has happened to Joe. Now he doesn’t feel safe; he feels sick, wants to cry and can’t even concentrate on his computer games. This carefully and sensitively written storybook has been created to enable conversations around safeguarding, teaching children about their right to feel safe, and what to do if, like Joe, they ever need help. With colourful and engaging illustrations, the story offers opportunities for discussion throughout, using Joe as a tool to help children understand their difficult feelings, who they can go to for help, and what they can do when it feels like nobody is listening. This Designed to be used alongside the professional guidebook, A Practical Resource for Supporting Children’s Right to Feel Safe , this is an essential tool for teachers, support staff and other professionals who want to teach children that being safe from harm is the most important right they have, and that the trusted adults around them will always take action to believe and protect them.