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This is an integral part of our Personal Development programme as we build our student’s confidence, resilience and knowledge so that they can keep themselves mentally healthy. The Bounce Forward scheme of work will help to facilitate the development of skills and qualities that will enable our students to become independent and thrive in society.

Delivering real insight into the topic of media and its impact on young people today. I believe that the teaching resources will work well with the majority of our students and will be a vital tool in ensuring we are preparing them for the modern world. The CPD was delivered well with some great prompting questions.

It's amazing that courses like this are available for parents. It's so helpful to understand our brains and think about how our own reactions knock on to our kids. Anxiety is such a buzz word but spending time really thinking about what it actually means and how we can support as parents is so useful.

I thought it was brilliant. Taking that time out to actually think about the way we're existing was so useful. For me, and I imagine for many of us, I think I spend too much time in 'burn out' and 'survival' so don't give this kind of thing enough time. I'd definitely be keen for more on this to really embed the habits.

Very interesting and thought-provoking. Some ‘quick wins’ in terms of building relationships as well as a graduated approach for the harder to support students. Love the approach.

Teach Mental Resilience is a perfect addition to the work we do ahead of transition. Teaching the skill children need to learn from setbacks is crucial particularly ahead of a big move to secondary. the resources are all ready to use with videos and films embedded which saves me so much time. I really like the mix of activities. I find myself using so much of it myself too!

My initial aim was a night out, once a week! The reality was learning life-long skills not just for me, but for my ability to guide my children. I am so grateful for this learning!

Thank you for the impactful session yesterday. My phone was buzzing last night – it went down an absolute storm, so well in fact that the team want to dedicate time to what they learnt at every team meeting to keep it alive!

I found the course very useful especially as my child just started year 7. For me a lot of what we are going through now makes sense and we are approaching the transition in a more positive and calm manner. I am more conscious about my beliefs and how they affect the communication and relationship with my daughter.

As a school we know that students can only perform academically if they are in a stable place emotionally and have the resilience to cope with the knocks of life. We believe that education is about so much more than outcomes at GCSE and we are therefore delighted to be a Bounce Forward / Harry Kane Foundation lead launch school and to get the chance to use Healthy Minds resources to continue to upskill our staff and to develop the resilience and wellbeing of our whole school community.

100% agree the course is useful personally, for those I work with, has prepared me to facilitate Resilient Futures and would recommend Resilient Futures to others.

As a trust we talk a lot about our classrooms being places our children and young people can take off the crushing weight of the armour they wear. If we can teach, model and promote building resilience in our schools, we are preparing our students for the hard moments that life can bring. That is arguably the most important tool we can give them.

Healthy Minds comes with planned lessons and high-quality resources to support the teaching of a range of current and very necessary units. These units will guide and support our young people to develop greater resilience as they navigate the ever-changing world they are faced with. This is especially important for our students who have significant needs in terms of cognition and learning and face added challenges in and beyond school. The units are broken down into formats that are user friendly, helping staff with their planning and delivery.

It is daunting as children move from primary to secondary so it was a wonderful introduction to the school as a new parent. The session made me think about the things I worry about and gave so many practical and useful ideas for me to use personally and to help me help my daughters. I hope the school will organise more events like this.

Raise Resilience provides really functional ideas of things to do to support your children and also provides a wealth of further reading and resources. I feel that many of the things I have learned are having a positive impact on my ability to support people outside my family as well.

100% agreed the training was helpful personally, the skills will be useful for students, the approach will help improve the school and would recommend it to others.

What we have valued about the Bounce Forward lessons is the collaboration between tutors and students who work through the learning together and the proactive focus on mental resilience. It doesn't matter whether you are an adult or a child; the time to stop, take stock and reflect is invaluable across the busy school day.

We started having a lesson each week called Healthy Minds to help us understand and manage our thoughts and feelings. I didn't realise that two other people in my class help out at home because their parents have disabilities. We do not talk about personal things but we do share what we like about ourselves and we all felt proud that we could help our family. The teacher invited us to stay behind after the lesson so we could get to know each other more. We shared what we like about our life and some of the things we find hard. It felt good to be able to talk with people who know what it is like. We decided to keep meeting after the lesson to get to know each more and to practice using what we were learning in class. We realised that it's ok to talk about what is happening at home. We would try some of the intentional stillness techniques to feel calm, and we started keeping a shared gratitude journal, the good things that happen and the way we are there for each other.

We are incredibly grateful for the opportunity to access the Healthy Minds resources. The wealth of information will help our school continue to be proactive in supporting children and young people’s mental health.”

Primary school children taught the skills of mental resilience in 54 schools across England. Teenagers learning together in 46 secondary schools, to understand how their brain works, how to spot and deal with unhelpful, negative thoughts, how to set rules in relationships. Impacting the lives of more than 17,000 children. Over £32,000 donated by Carlsberg Britvic employees.

We are proud to be a Harry Kane Foundation lead school. The work means our staff and students are supported to talk openly and confidently about mental health, wellbeing, and resilience. The resources encourage reflective thinking and develop our understanding of what happens in our minds and thinking, particularly in stressful or upsetting situations and how to manage and support ourselves and others through challenges. The Bounce Forward lessons give opportunities to look closely at wellbeing in ways that other resources don’t. The way in which the resources explicitly teach techniques and strategies to identify and address negative thought patterns and behaviours is proving incredibly helpful to our young people.

The Bounce Forward 'Thrive' programme here remains strong and continues to go from strength to strength as a key part of personal development and PSHCE. The staff who have been trained and supported and I would recommend your work to other schools.