In a world full of challenges, helping students develop the tools to build mental resilience and emotional well-being is more important than ever.
That’s why we’re thrilled to introduce Bounce Forward Healthy Minds Compact—a comprehensive resource designed specifically for schools to help students develop the essential life skills needed to thrive both academically and personally.
Bounce Forward Healthy Minds Compact Offers
36 interactive, 15-20 minute activities aimed at strengthening mental resilience and emotional well-being. Perfect for tutor time sessions, these activities fit seamlessly into any school routine and provide students with practical, life-changing skills they can carry with them for years to come.
What’s Inside Bounce Forward Healthy Minds Compact?
The activities in Bounce Forward Healthy Minds Compact cover a wide range of important topics. Through these lessons, students will gain a deeper understanding of their emotions, thoughts, and behaviours, and learn how to navigate the ups and downs of life in healthy, constructive ways.
Here are some of the key skills that students will learn:
- Knowing My Unique Qualities: Understanding what makes each student special and how they can leverage their strengths.
- Building Resilience: Exploring what resilience is, why it matters, and how to cultivate it in everyday life.
- Kindness and Mental Fitness: Discovering the powerful connection between kindness and mental well-being.
- Emotional Vocabulary: Expanding their emotional vocabulary to better articulate feelings and improve emotional intelligence.
- Recognising Helpful vs. Unhelpful Emotions: Learning when emotions are useful and when they might need to be managed.
- Techniques to Calm Down Unhelpful Emotions: Practical methods for managing stress and emotions, including bodily, distraction, and social techniques.
- Understanding the Link Between Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviours: Exploring how thoughts influence emotions and actions, and how to reframe negative thought patterns.
- Optimism and Goal Setting: Cultivating a positive mindset and setting personal goals for the future, both at an individual and community level.
- Social Connection and Communication: Developing social skills such as listening, expressing gratitude, empathy, and recognising different communication styles.
- Sleep and Mental Fitness: Understanding how sleep affects mental well-being and creating healthy sleep routines.
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These topics are just a glimpse into the well-rounded curriculum Bounce Forward Healthy Minds Compact provides.
The resource also explores the impact of social media on mental health and gives students the tools to create healthy digital habits, ensuring their online presence supports their overall emotional well-being.
Why Is It Important?
Mental health isn’t just about managing stress —it’s about developing the resilience to face life’s challenges head-on and enjoy the opportunities as they arise.
The skills taught in Bounce Forward Healthy Minds Compact help students:
- Build Emotional Intelligence: By expanding their emotional vocabulary and learning techniques to manage their feelings, students can better understand and regulate their emotions.
- Cultivate Resilience: With resilience-building activities, students develop the mindset needed to overcome obstacles, persevere, and adapt to challenges in a positive way.
- Enhance Self-Awareness: Students gain a deep understanding of themselves—what makes them unique, their strengths, and areas for growth.
- Strengthen Social Connections: By learning to communicate effectively, practice empathy, and build gratitude, students will feel more connected to others and form stronger relationships.Â
How Does It Fit into Tutor Time?
Designed with the busy school schedule in mind, Bounce Forward Healthy Minds Compact features activities that take just 15-20 minutes each—perfect for tutor time or quick sessions. Teachers will find it easy to integrate these lessons into their regular routine, helping students practice mental well-being without feeling overwhelmed. The activities require minimal preparation and are ready to be used immediately, ensuring that every minute of tutor time counts.
The Power of Small Steps
One of the core philosophies behind Bounce Forward Healthy Minds Compact is that small, consistent efforts lead to big results. By incorporating just 15-20 minutes of focused mental fitness activities each day, students will gradually build the resilience and emotional well-being they need to succeed. Over time, these daily practices will become second nature, allowing students to manage stress, set and achieve goals, and maintain positive relationships.
Perfect for Schools, Teachers, and Students
Whether you’re looking to improve your students’ mental resilience, foster a more supportive school culture, or help students better manage their emotions, Bounce Forward Healthy Minds Compact offers a comprehensive solution.
Teachers and tutors can use this resource with minimal preparation, making it a valuable addition to any classroom setting.
Key Benefits at a Glance
- Comprehensive, easy-to-implement curriculum: 36 activities designed for busy form tutors with minimal preparation needed.
- Clear learning outcomes: Each session has defined goals that make it easy to measure student progress.
- Hands-on activities: Engage students with practical, real-world applications of key resilience and well-being skills.
- Support for teachers: Access informal CPD and ongoing support via the Healthy Minds Community.
- Ready to use: PPT-ready content available directly on the Bounce Forward Platform.
Ready to get started
Ready to equip your students with the mental resilience and emotional well-being they need? Bounce Forward Healthy Minds Compact is here to support both students and educators in creating a positive, growth-oriented learning environment.
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Implementation Example
Integrating Healthy Minds Compact into Tutor Time
Here’s a real-world example of how Bounce Forward Healthy Minds Compact can be implemented in a school setting:
At one school, Healthy Minds Compact was successfully built into Year 7 tutor time as part of their whole school approach to personal development and well-being. The delivery model followed a 20-minute session once a week, spread over 36 weeks throughout the academic year. This ensured that students were regularly practicing and reinforcing the skills taught, building their resilience and emotional fitness step by step.
To further enhance the impact, the school integrated the skills taught in the Healthy Minds Compact with their Pupil Passport system. The Pupil Passport (also known as a “One Page Profile” or “Pen Portrait”) is a concise document that summarises a student’s strengths, needs, learning strategies, and areas for improvement. It’s used to ensure that teachers have the right support strategies in place, especially during transitions or when students need specific assistance.
Healthy Minds Compact contributed to the “Things I Can Do for Myself” section of the Passport. The school’s goal was to give students a clear, actionable system to practice these skills in real time. By connecting the skills taught with the Pupil Passport, students had a personalised framework that allowed them to track and build their capacity for mental resilience and emotional well-being, supported by their teachers as needed.
The Pupil Passport includes:
- Strengths: What the student excels at, including academic and personal strengths.
- Identification of Needs: Learning needs, disabilities, and any specific support required.
- Areas for Improvement: Areas the student is working on and ways to improve.
- Strategies to Help: How teachers can support the student in the classroom.
- Things I Can Do for Myself: Self-help strategies and skills, such as those learned in Healthy Minds Compact.
The school’s integration of Bounce Forward Healthy Minds Compact with the Pupil Passport allowed for continuous, real-time support, while helping students practice and refine their emotional skills. This approach not only supported students’ mental health but also made it easier for teachers to guide them in a personalised way.
