Resilience... Bouncebackability!

Over the last two weeks we have been learning about resilience in our assemblies and PSHE lessons. We understand resilience as ‘bouncebackability’. It is the ability to cope with difficult things.  We discussed with the children that most friendships have ups and downs, times of laughter, fun, support, trust and happiness, but also times of conflict or difficulty: when we fall out, get upset, say or do mean things. These things can often be worked through so that the friendship is repaired or even strengthened, and we talked about how resorting to violence is never right.

We have been learning some different phrases that can help us to develop resilience when there is conflict and difficulties in our life.  An example would be:

I was in Reflection Time one afternoon and really upset, but then I drew a line under it and moved on to make the most of the next day.