Completing chapter one with your resilience team members

Resources Required: Time: Can be flexible but a good discussion may take up to 2 hours Flip chart / whiteboard for note taking Marker pens Question prompts (see below)

In preparation for your workshop, either cut out the chapter one prompt cards below and have them ready or project the questions onto an IWB.

Chapter one: Understanding Your School

1. Considering the questionsBreak your group down to small groups and give them a set of the questions. Ask one person to scribe and allow 15 minutes to gather ideas. Then discuss your thoughts as a group and agree on a range of answers for each question, record these in your team learning journal.

2. Action Planning

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1. What is it about your school that means you have started to explore the need

for resilience building?

2. What is the demographic of your pupils and families;

are there any particular characteristics or additional

needs?

3. What is the general understanding of resilience

amongst pupils, staff, parents and the local community

currently?

4. What is the school already doing to build resilience, e.g. is there a safe space in place and do pupils use and value

this?

5. What kind of relationship does your school have with parents, families, and the

local community?

6. What else could your team do to increase resilience and

the understanding of resilience amongst school

staff, students, parents, and the community?

Once you have spent time considering the questions you need to think about how to test what you think you know, find out missing answers, look at how well existing resilience activity is working and inform your next actions.

Either as a group or in pairs re-visit each of the questions and, using the ‘Chapter 1 Understanding Your School – Examples of Evidence to Assess’ document to assist you with examples, think about what you need to do to test your answers and gather a greater understanding of your current situation and what you need to do to make your school more resilient. Record agreed actions on your team action plan.

3. By the end of the session

You should have: worked well as a team to understand the format of the Toolkit become familiar with the task ahead considered the chapter one activity; which helps you start a self-assessment of your current situation created an initial action plan

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