“An amazing resource, empowering Year 7 and 8 learners to develop resilience, sort through their thoughts and feelings when encountering situations that don't always make sense. How do I deal with disappointments. What makes me feel inspired”
“An amazing resource! thank you #Dove #schoolkitHQ
Really helps provide and develops those important tools /skills our young learners need for unpacking resilience and getting to know personal strengths and weaknesses”
“This kit is has been very engaging for my year 7/8 class. The children are still working their way through the booklet and getting used to using the token system. It has helped us to recognise and attend to our emotions.”
“This was a really eye opening kit for both my students and myself. It was very interesting doing the circle of influence. I have a lot of children with trauma and the token have them a safe space to say how they were feeling. It also helped them to identify their emotions and we now have a whole recharge station with a number of different items they can use to recharge. I love the term recharge as opposed to calm down as it ensures there is no negative connotations or that it is a punishment. Relating it to recharging ourselves with food and sleep was a good starting point which led in nicely to emotions. Some parents now have these areas in their own homes as opposed to time out. It has started some really cool conversations and the same language is being used at school and home which is awesome!!! Even the ideas given parents are implementing as I find when children are heightened they do want to calm but need some help and guidance on how to do this. Some more visuals for these would be awesome as well.”
“My class loved this kit! It has become a regular part of our day - the charging station is used on a regular basis and students know that they have a quiet place to go whenever they need to. The self check tokens a re fabulous! We check in every day, at least twice and even started identifying trends and what we can do to alter these trends. I'm really looking forward to continue the use of this kit for the rest of the school year!”
“Really enjoyed the idea of this kit for my year 8s. The charging station is amazing, it looks great and the cards provided have some great wisdom! The caring adult letters were fantastic and so lovely to read (although it was a real struggle to get these back from all of our families). The students started so well with the journals but unfortunately lost interest. I did find the teaching guide a little tricky to follow but we made it work to suit us.”
“This kit has sparked so many rich classroom discussions. It has required students to become more self-aware and to think more about perceptions and different points of view.”
