“Be Optimistic” assembly This assembly has been put together by a Head of Year/Pastoral Leader and is designed to be delivered to a whole year group/house or used within tutor time/dinnertime club, or after school club etc. Aims To encourage students to: “Be Optimistic”, (by informing them of the benefits of having an optimistic outlook in life.) Increase your resilience. Take responsibility for your attitude to improve your experience of the world. The first half of the assembly is based on an optical illusion and how you don’t see something how it is you see it how you are. It’s not logical, it’s pyscho-logical. The second half of the assembly tells the story of a man with no arms and no legs and how he had a terribly depressed experience of life until he made the decision in his mind to be more optimistic and see the opportunity in every difficulty, as opposed to the difficulty in every opportunity! The assembly has 19 slides and 2 video clips. It will last 15-20minutes, depending on how much audience participation you encourage. I have embedded the video clips and included the videos as mp4’s as part of the resouces you receive to link to so you don’t need to worry about your school’s internet connection letting you down in front of 200 students and 10 tutors! I also include the YouTube links and titles to the clips for your information, and incase the students want to watch them again at home. This assembly forms a series of assemblies (10-15 in total- which I will be adding in the very near future) designed to build a positive year group identity, and to boost the resilience of the individual students, which is always the main aim of my assemblies. Kindest Regards Matthew Obee

“FOMO- Fear Of Missing Out” assembly This assembly has been put together by a Head of Year/Pastoral Leader and is designed to be delivered to a whole year group/house or used within tutor time/dinnertime club, or after school club etc. Aims To help students to: • Understand what FOMO is (Fear Of Missing OUT). • Understand how spending time on social media may be affecting you. • Understand how spending time on social media may be holding you back This assembly deals with/raises issues of: • Social anxiety • Mental health concerns associated with social media over-use • Depression • Peer pressure • Cyber bullying • Low self-esteem • Gossip • Telling lies/being fake • Physiological problems associated with late night phone screen-viewing (effects of blue light) • Sleep pattern disruption and effects on physical development • Trolls and haters • Internet connectivity v interconnectivity The assembly has 52 slides, one video clip and outro music. It will last 15-20 minutes, depending on how much audience participation you encourage. It leads from FOMO to encourage JOMO (Joy Of Missing Out) This assembly forms a series of assemblies (10-15 in total- which I will be adding in the near future) designed to build a positive year group identity, and to boost the resilience of the individual students. Regards Matthew Obee

“Grit” assembly This assembly has been put together by a Head of Year/Pastoral Leader and is designed to be delivered to a whole year group/house or used within tutor time/dinnertime club, or after school club etc. Aims To help students to: • Understand “persistence”. • Understand “resilience”. • Understand how persistence and resilience create the quality “grit”. This assembly deals with the issue of students giving up to easily. The assembly has 10 slides and one video clip. It will last 10-15 minutes, depending on how much audience participation you encourage. This assembly forms a series of assemblies (10-15 in total- which I will be adding in the near future) designed to build a positive year group identity, and to boost the resilience of individual students. Regards Matthew Obee

Anger Management assembly Compiled by a pastoral leader: This PowerPoint presentation can be used as a year group/house assembly, or as part of a dinnertime/after school club etc. designed to increase the resilience of the students. The PowerPoint contains 32 slides and 7 videos, which are embedded. The videos are YouTube clips. Some clips are humourous, some are tongue-in-cheek, some are hard-hitting. All the slides and clips build on each other to inspire and motivate the students to reflect on their current behaviour during the concluding slides. This PowerPoint helps build a positive year-group identity, and delivers a message about anger that can be taken into the wider school community. Links to the YouTube clips are also provided to give the makers credit. (see notes and bibliography within the PowerPoint.) I have included the videos as mp4’s as part of the resources you receive to link to so you don’t need to worry about your school’s internet connection letting you down in front of 200 students and 10 tutors! I also include the YouTube links and titles to the clips for your information, and in case the students want to watch them again at home. The PowerPoint can be modified to last between 15-20 minutes, or anything up to 25 minutes, depending on how much audience participation you encourage. The assembly can be followed up with discussions with individual students or classes/tutor groups formally or informally. Kind regards Matthew Obee

Growth Mindset Enrichment presentation This presentation has 56 slides and contains 14 videos, which are all embedded (EXCEPT THE VIDEO THAT EMBEDS ON SLIDE 55 AS IT MADE THE FILE TOO LARGE, EVEN AFTER COMPRESSING, SO THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN INCLUDED AS A SEPARATE FILE FOR YOU TO RE-EMBED) into the presentation and play full-screen automatically. AIMS Understand what a growth mindset is Understand the plasticity of the brain Encourage students to take ownership of their learning Develop R & I (Resourcefulness and Initiative) Understand and develop grit Push yourself beyond comfort zone to take on new challenges Learn to not fear mistakes, learn from them (Growth Mindset) This power point is suitable for delivery as part of a whole school CPD, department CPD, or, as part of enrichment week, delivered to a whole year group. The presentation lasts between 1 ½ -2 hours, depending on how familiar you are with the Growth Mindset and how much you elaborate on each slide. The presentation contains a section where the students are asked to draw a self-portrait using their current technique, then again under the expert tuition of a YouTube artist, so they can see the instant impact better techniques have. You can see me going over the PowerPoint on my YouTube channel “gcsephysicsexplained”: [Link][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMapEUiWYrs&t=24s&list=PLjs3KMU7zKeh6TQlEA7csA9knbtiCCAcH&index=3] I follow up the presentation by giving a questionnaire to the students (attached as a download). The presentation gets great feedback, mostly saying how inspired the students feel to take responsibility for their own learning, and how they wish someone had told them about the growth mindset and the plasticity of the brain earlier. Kind regards Matthew Obee