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Helping children discover their strengths, build resilience and develop confidence.
What makes somebody a hero? Is it having superpowers, achieving something extraordinary, or finding the courage to face everyday challenges?
Be Your Own Hero is an engaging, interactive workshop that encourages children to recognise the strengths, skills and qualities they already possess.
Through creative activities, practical challenges, teamwork and reflection, pupils explore resilience, emotional wellbeing, communication and problem-solving. They discover that everyone has different strengths and that being a hero isn’t about being perfect or doing everything alone.
The workshop helps children recognise their achievements, understand their emotions and identify strategies and support that can help them navigate challenges.
What will pupils explore?
- Recognising their individual strengths, achievements and qualities.
- Understanding resilience and exploring how to respond when things don’t go to plan.
- Identifying emotions and developing strategies for managing difficult feelings.
- Building confidence through teamwork and practical problem-solving.
- Developing empathy, communication and an appreciation of others’ strengths.
- Setting personal goals and recognising the people who can support them.
Learning through experience
Pupils take part in a range of interactive activities designed to make learning engaging and meaningful.
They investigate the qualities of real-life heroes, become detectives of their own strengths and work together to solve practical challenges that encourage flexibility, communication and teamwork.
Children also explore emotions and consider how different strategies and supportive relationships can help them when facing difficulties.
The workshop concludes with pupils creating their own personal Hero Plan, identifying a goal, recognising a strength that can help them and considering one positive step they can take towards achieving it.
Workshop information
Suitable for: Years 3–6 (Key Stage 2)
Duration: 90 minutes
Group size: Up to 30 pupils
Curriculum links: PSHE, Science and STEM skills development
Key skills: Resilience, confidence, emotional literacy, teamwork, communication and problem-solving.
Why choose Be Your Own Hero?
Children are often encouraged to be resilient, confident and independent, but they also need opportunities to explore what these qualities mean in practice.
Be Your Own Hero creates a supportive learning experience that celebrates individuality, encourages positive relationships and helps pupils recognise that everyone has strengths worth valuing.
Every child has the potential to be their own hero. Sometimes they just need the opportunity to recognise it.
Bring Be Your Own Hero to your school
Looking for an engaging workshop that supports pupils’ wellbeing, confidence and personal development?
Get in touch to discuss bringing Be Your Own Hero to your school.
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