Highway Heroes

This small group or whole class teaching resource targets the difference between bullying and teasing and teaches TOOLS to equip a child to positively and pro actively stick up for themselves. 5 easy to follow lessons, fully supported with colour resources, parent information, home activities and data collection checklists.

Bullying and teasing is a reality in every playground everywhere that there are kids. Children in the upper primary school years are also playing in the Online Playground – often with limited supervision or support. In 5 easy to follow lessons, fully supported with goals, a theoretical overview and coloured teaching resources, this small group or whole class teaching resource targets: the differences between bullying and teasing; the different sorts of bullying – physical and psychological and the differences in teasing behaviours.
There is a practical methodology for the development of TOOLS to create choices for thinking and behaving as well as stepping up to beating bullying and taming teasing. (Year 4-6 includes activities targeting Cyberbullying and introducing TOOLS to manage this environment safely.)

✓ Identifying Bullying
✓ The PIGS Bullying Choices
✓ Types of Bullying and Straight Talk (KS2 includes cyber-bullying)
✓ Taming Teasing
✓ The Triple A’s 4 Teasing

Module 2 – Connecting 4 Friendships; Playground Resilience & Wisdom

This small group or whole class teaching resource targets the complexities of friends and friendship issues and teaches TOOLS to equip a child to positively and proactively manage Friendship Flare Ups.

5 easy to follow lessons, fully supported with colour resources, parent information, home activities and data collection checklists.

Teachers and parents all over the world know that friendship issues in the primary school years can become problematic and very focal for children. Children in the upper primary school years are often also playing in the Online Playground – often with limited supervision or support.

In 5 easy to follow lessons, fully supported with goals, a theoretical overview and coloured teaching resources, this small group or whole class teaching resource targets: friendliness skills; the realities and complexities of friends and friendships and strategies for putting Friendship Flare Ups out.

Included is a practical and proven methodology for the development of TOOLS unwrapping friendliness skills, decatastrophising friendship issues, and managing friendship flare ups. (Year 4-6 includes activities targeting cyber-friendships and TOOLS to promote better ‘Nettiquette’ in this space.)

✓ Friends and The Friendliness SPICE
✓ The Friendliness SPICE
✓ The Triple A’s 4 Refusals to Play
✓ The Triple A’s 4 Friendship Flare Ups
✓ Assert with Straight Talk

The Learning Highway – Growth Mindset, Staying-power & Classroom Grit

Module 3 – Tricks 4 Getting Things Done; The Secrets of Staying-power and Grit

This small group or whole class teaching resource targets the learning to learn skills. These include the development of resilient learning attitudes and behaviours through teaching the ‘how to’s’ of persistence, planning, organisation, focus and goal setting. 5 easy to follow lesson plans, fully supported with colour resources, parent information, home activities and data collection checklists.

Small group or whole class teaching resource that teaches, supports, encourages and motivates positive learning attitudes and behaviours. Planning, organisation, goal setting supported by the qualities of persistence, grit, on-task behaviour and self-management skills promote a high level of Executive Functioning and learning to capability.

✓ Filling The CPR Learning Tank
✓ The Triple A’s 4 Getting Things Done
✓ The Triple A’s of Approach and Apply
✓ www.goalsetting.com
✓ Off -Track Thinking (Mistakes, comparison and perfectionism)

The Emotional Highway – Feelings, Moods, Self-Regulation & Resilience

Module 4 – Strategies 4 Managing Me; Mood Management and Resilience

This small group or whole class teaching resource targets a child’s internal emotional world of self monitoring and self-management. It teaches how to identify and manage feelings and to develop resilience through the use of a range of TOOLS for “Managing Me”.

Small group or whole class teaching resource that identifies the contribution of emotional self-management and resilience to social, emotional and learning success. Development of emotional self-management TOOLS to assist calming down, emotional self-monitoring, bouncing back, avoiding over-excitability and emotional overwhelm.

✓ Feelings, Moods and The Emotional Highway
✓ Mood, Maps and Drivers
✓ Thinking About Your Thinking – The Thinking Traffic Lanes
✓ The Triple B’s 4 Calming Down
✓ Resilient Me on The Emotional Highway