BOUNCE BACK! by Toni Noble & Helen McGrath
The focus for Year 2 will be developing student resilience by developing strategies for coping and bouncing back. The Year 2 lessons will focus on:
- Everybody feels sad and worried sometimes, not just you
- Change happens a lot in everyone's life
- Moving house and or moving to a new school
- Growing up and bouncing back
- Losing someone or a pet you love
- Family changes eg. new baby, family separation
- People can bounce back like balls bounce back
- Bad feelings and unhappy times always go away again
- Other people can help you feel better if you talk to them
- Bouncing back from being sick or injured
- Unhelpful thinking makes you feel more upset
- Nobody is perfect. Learning from mistakes and problems
- Concentrate on the good things in an unhappy situation
- Having a laugh helps you to feel better
- Change happens a lot in everyone's life. It's normal.
- Sometimes there is nothing you can do to change a situation
- One bad thing doesn't spoil everything else.