Talk to your child about resilience. Refer to the building resilience information above.

This week I thought it would be really good fun to play a game with your family.  Something nice and simple would be ideal.  Maybe you have a favourite board game, snap, memory game (the one with the tea towel and things hidden underneath), or you could get someone to hide your best toy and see how long it takes to find.

Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles.  Corrie Ten Boom 

Look her up, she was very inspirational. Why don’t you copy it out, make it look gorgeous and stick it on your fridge.

Have a look through the Building Resilience information above and remind yourself of the basics.

Have a discussion about how you can tell how resilient a person is.

Phone a friend/ family member or write a postcard.  Tell them something fabulous you have achieved

If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you. Unknown

Write it out in fancy pens and decorate.  Pop it on your fridge.

Have a quick refresher with the Building Resilience information.

Discussion for this week is…how might resilience affect your learning?

Build a junk sculpture to represent someone you miss.  It doesn’t need to be lifelike, just a feeling.  Have fun with it. 

Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.  Albus Dumbledore

Have a little reminder of what resilience is from the information above.

This week’s challenge is to make a personalised flag.  What would you put on it?  What qualities do you have?  Put five things on your flag that are ‘you’. Have fun.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend, for they can never be broken. Albert Camus

See if you can find out a bit about Albert.

See what you can remember about resilience.  See if you can remember the basics.

This week I would like you to write a prediction of where you think you will be and what you will be doing in five, ten and 15 years.  I would also like your caregiver to do the same for you and then compare notes.  Maybe you have had some of the same ideas or completely different.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin

Copy the quote in fancy pens and decorate.  Stick it on your fridge.

When something goes wrong we sometimes say things like ‘why does this always happen to me?’  When you do this you personalise it.  This is not helpful; it is better to normalise it.  Things are not out to get you - sometimes things just go wrong.

This week I would like you to draw around your foot.  Next to your foot I would like you to write down one goal.  The goal should focus on what you would like to achieve.  You move forward with your feet and this is how we achieve, by moving forward.  Is it a realistic goal? Why is it important to set goals? Is there any more goals you would like to achieve?  What can you do right now to accomplish your goal?

I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights. Maya Angelou

Copy and put it on the fridge :)

Congratulations, you are now a resilience expert!

You have learned to look at situations differently and how to deal with things when they do not go as planned.

For this final week I would like you to make yourself a certificate to celebrate your achievement.  You are awesome!

Last quote of the week so make it really special.

Courage does not always roar.  Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I will try again tomorrow.’  Unknown

They may have been unknown, but I think they were very wise. :)