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Blackpool Schools
Blackpool Schools
Academic Resilience Approach
Academic Resilience Approach
Co-Production + Community of Practice
Co-Production + Community of Practice
Apply for the new Innovation Fund
Apply for the new Innovation Fund
Contact Sarah Wells for a copy of the new application form: sarah.wells@blackpool.gov.uk
Resilience Champions- Identify a group of young people from your school who would benefit from building resilience. Support them to work co-productively to decide what changes they would like to make. Support them to complete the form and send it to us by the 31st December 2021.
• BASICS with new play and hobbies equipment in the school
• BELONGING in a new parents’ engagement room
• LEARNING in new outdoor reading space
• COPING in new sensory spaces
• CORE SELF in the school ‘Wonderwall’ for everyone to feel inspired and motivated
Download our latest Annual Report here.
Academic Resilience Approach
Academic Resilience Approach
Blackpool schools have started their Academic Resilience Approach (ARA) work. This approach, based on the work of Professor Angie Hart and Resilient Therapy, aims to build resilience across the whole school community through the use of Resilient Moves. Each 'Move' is underpinned by the Noble Truths is also supported by a wealth of research showing the benefits to mental health, academic attainment, staff wellbeing and parental engagement.
Read about the benefits for staff here:
DRP report final MAY 2019_JM_V2 (brighton.ac.uk)
Find out more about the benefits here.
Why have a Resilience Committee?
Why have a Resilience Committee?
Resilience Committees are groups of young people carefully selected to co-produce inclusive projects in schools. They are young people who are given a voice, time, resources and permission to make a positive change for all of their school community. Resilience Committees improve confidence, independence, engagement and have shown to have a positive correlation with attainment and mental health. So, why not?
347 young people made changes in their school 2019-20!
Use the steps below to get started with, or continue, your Academic Resilience Approach.
Use the steps below to get started with, or continue, your Academic Resilience Approach.
Attend Training
Attend Training
We have many open access training events run by Boing Boing CIC and can often deliver bespoke sessions in Resilient Therapy and ARA.
Audit the whole school community
Audit the whole school community
Audit your whole staff body, parents, carers and young people. Links to audits are below.
Create your action plan based on the outcomes of your audits
Create your action plan based on the outcomes of your audits
The outcome of the audits will show you the areas that need to be developed.
Work co-productively to make improvements
Work co-productively to make improvements
Engage your Resilience Committee and Community of Practice to find some solutions. Test and Learn!
Resilience Revolution Education Voices (RREV)
Resilience Revolution Education Voices (RREV)
Our co-production group consists of parents, carers, young people, professionals and academics. We work together to make Blackpool more inclusive!
To get involved please contact: sarah.wells@blackpool.gov.uk
Community of Practice
Community of Practice
(CoP)
(CoP)
Each school in Blackpool has a Resilience Champion who attends the CoP to share ideas in developing the Academic Resilience Approach in their school.
Blackpool Classrooms That Communicate
Blackpool Classrooms That Communicate
HeadStart funded a project to create a speech and language toolkit to be shared with all schools in Blackpool.
Follow the link to explore the advice and downloadable resources for free!
Blackpool Beating Bullying
Blackpool Beating Bullying
We want your school to be the next school to achieve our Charter Mark. Here is how your school can apply to join the adventure of the UK’s FIRST co-produced Charter Mark. See which schools have been successful so far!
You can also support us across social media platforms by using our hashtag #BlackpoolBeatingBullying. Let’s make Blackpool a better place for all!
Useful Resources:
Supporting children and young people's mental health - A guide for schools - Boingboing
Resilience Revolution Annual Report 2019-2020 - Boingboing
What is Resilient Therapy & the Resilience Framework? - Boingboing
Hint, Tips and session plans to facilitate a Resilience Committee - Coming soon!
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