Reflecting on last day memories is essential for children moving to a new school or class. Celebrating achievements and acknowledging growth helps boost their self-esteem and confidence. It also provides an opportunity to say goodbye to friends and teachers, offering closure and a sense of completion.
This reflection process helps children manage their emotions, particularly feelings of sadness or anxiety about the change. Focusing on positive memories fosters gratitude and contentment, reminding them of the joy they experienced. Additionally, reflecting on how they overcame challenges builds resilience for future difficulties.
Reflecting on the past year inspires children to set new goals for the next year. It boosts their confidence and encourages a positive outlook on future transitions.
Our resource can be used for moving school or class. It is easy to print out for every child in the school to do.
This is our ‘Happy Last Day Card and poster’. Lovely activity to do on the last day for each pupil or you could create cards to give to every child along with some colouring pencils and a personal message from you.
This is a friendship display to support any social skills work you may be doing. It focuses on vocabulary around friendship. Pupils will learn about the positive qualities of a friend.
The display is bright and colourful and will enhance your ELSA area or classroom.
Included in the pack are: *32 Friendship quality display words *A frog poster *A banner that can be printed large using Adobe print settings and then pieced together *some bubbles to cut out to decorate your display * A cauldron which can be printed on A3 or larger *writing paper for the pupils with and without lines, with and without the frog clipart.
There are 48 Friends cards in this pack. Each showing a positive aspect of friendship. These are great for reading through with older pupils to discuss and work on.
They print 8 to an A4 page.
Help your pupils to make more friends by using these bright and colourful cards often.
Our Building Resilience pupil leaflet is designed to help children develop the skills and habits needed to bounce back from challenges. Perfect for pupils in primary school, this engaging tri-fold leaflet explains what resilience is, why it matters, and offers practical tips they can try each day to build their confidence and strength. Ideal for classroom use, social-emotional learning support, or for parents looking to encourage resilience at home!
Inside the Building Resilience Pupil Leaflet:
What is Resilience?
This section introduces resilience as the ability to “bounce back” from tough situations. It explains resilience in simple, relatable language, helping children understand that being resilient means staying strong and positive when things get challenging.
Why is it Important?
Here, pupils learn why resilience matters in everyday life.
Building Resilience
This section provides practical tips and strategies children can use to start building resilience.
Positive Habits
This section introduces a list of positive habits that can make resilience part of a pupil’s daily routine.
Reflecting on Resilience
The final section encourages pupils to think back and reflect on previous challenges.
There is an editable part for you to put your contact details or just your name. Simply type in the blue box. Don’t worry the blue box doesn’t show when you print. You can of course just print it and handwrite your details.
There is a leaflet holder included in the pack which you can use to display your leaflets on the wall. There is also a BLACK AND WHITE version of the leaflet included in the pack. Some children might like to colour in the black and white version as you chat.
Important information
This Building Resilience pupil leaflet is meant to be used as part of ELSA Sessions or some other therapeutic session and shouldn’t just be given out to children without some input. Please DO NOT just give these out without that important input. They are purely reminders for the pupil to take away and for parents to get involved.
It is your responsibility to decide whether the information in this leaflet will be helpful to your pupils.
Under our terms and conditions these leaflets must not be put onto school websites.
They are for printing and giving to pupils at the end of a session or you could use them as a basis for your session. Work through each part with the pupil.
Here you have a PowerPoint file of editable names. You can click on the name and change it. It will go to two lines if you want to add a surname too. The box is set to stay the same but your writing will be smaller or bigger depending on how many letters you put in.
There are 15 hand drawn backgrounds included in this pack all great for mindful colouring. Some are more complex than others so choose one that you think the pupil will like. The font is embedded into the file.
Once you have chosen from the 15 backgrounds, click on the name and change it.
Click ‘Save as’ and save the PowerPoint first.
Click ‘Save as’ again and choose PDF from the drop down list.
You can then print that page from your PDF.
You can duplicate one design if you want to by right clicking on the slide on the left hand side of your screen and choosing duplicate.
This pack is great for an opening session or just to catch up with the child after the long holiday. They can take it away with them and finish it at home if they want to.