Positive Start Program
Letter from the teacher
Circle Time - Holidays / Community Circle / Speed Chatting
School Values / School Tour
Positive Start Program
Hunt the Human Game
Mission Statements / Code of Cooperation
Fantale Description Activity
Growth Mindset Discussion
Behaviour Management Plan Discussion
Getting to know you T-shirts
HOW TO BE A GOOD FRIEND
Students identify behaviours and characteristics of what it means to be a 'good friend'.
Students describe scenarios these behaviours could be used.
LESSON:
Watch - Have you filled a bucket today.
Discuss Bucket Filling and Bucket Dipping. Discuss how bucket filling and bucket dipping makes you feel. Turn and talk - what kind of behaviours are considered as bucket fillers. How can you be a bucket filler.
Use HOW TO BE A FRIEND posters to reinforce bucket filling behaviours.
Create your own "A GOOD FRIEND" flower for display. List your chosen behaviours on each petal to show how you can be a good friend.
Display posters and flowers in classroom as a reminder.
Building team strengths through cooperative games.
Equipment - Balloons
Students identify examples of the ways in which team strengths are used in collaborative play.
Students describe characteristics of cooperative behaviour and identify evidence of these in group activities.
LESSON - FOLLOW THROUGH SLIDES.
Lesson 2 - What are personal strengths?
Equipment - Word Document Activity attached.
Students develop an understanding of the concept of personal strengths.
Students identify and name their personal character strengths.
Students recognise how different strengths help people to learn and thrive.
LESSON - FOLLOW THROUGH SLIDES
EQUIPMENT
• Everyday strengths cards (from Activity 2, wrapped up in layers in the style of the children’s party game ‘Pass the Parcel’)
• Music or buzzer
• Notebooks or paper and coloured pencils
RRRR - Topic 2 - PERSONAL STRENGTHS
Lesson 2 - Strengths we use every day
Equipment - Word Document Activity attached.
• Students describe the personal character strengths that people use in their everyday lives
• Students identify examples of the ways in which strengths can be seen in the actions people take
• Students identify the strengths that they would like to further develop
LESSON:
Play Pass the parcel of strengths game. Sit the class in a circle. While the music is playing, the parcel of strengths will be passed around the class. When the music stops (or the buzzer rings), the person holding the parcel opens it and pulls out one of the strengths cards.
The student then reads the card out to the room, and gives an example of an action someone can take which shows this strength. They then invite the class to add more examples, taking a turn in the ‘teacher’ role to choose from those who put their hands up.
Once the game is complete, display the list of strengths. Ask each student to choose two different strengths from the list to use in a memory exercise. In this exercise, they are to remember a time when they used that strength. Then, for each of their selected strengths, ask them to draw a picture with captions, and/or write a short story about the time when they used this strength.
Invite students to choose a third strength, one that they would like to focus on building for themselves. Ask them to write the name of this strength onto their page and to draw a picture of an action they could take which would show this strength in action, and/or to write about what actions they could take to demonstrate this strength. Emphasise that these are everyday strengths that we use in our daily lives.
CULTURE OF KINDNESS - SUGGESTED CLASS ACTIVITIES:
Whole School Assembly / Dance Group
Chalk Drawings - Positive Affirmations - Random Acts of Kindness
Create a class poster - 50 ways to be kind / Random acts of Kindness
Create a class Kindness Quilt.
Heartful of compliments.
Well Being Session with Mrs Sketcher.
RRRR - Topic 2 - PERSONAL STRENGTHS
Lesson 3 - Strengths we use everyday.
Equipment:
Everyday strengths cards (from Activity 2, wrapped
up in layers in the style of the children’s party game ‘Pass the Parcel’)
Music or buzzer.
Well Being Book and coloured pencils.
Students describe the personal character strengths that people use in their everyday lives.
Students identify examples of the ways in which strengths can be seen in the actions people take.
Students identify the strengths that they would like to further develop.
LESSON - FOLLOW THROUGH SLIDES
No Rotations - Due to Swimming Week
No Rotations - Due to Planning Week