Resilience Grows Here has partnered with East Granby Middle School to work with years 6, 7 & 8 each month to grow the understanding of resilience and how it applies to all of our lives. This dynamic and interactive curriculum takes a whole school approach with all staff and students participating in the learning sessions, as well as parents receiving information on how to reinforce the resilient attribute their child has learned that month. We seek to have students empowered with the tools to find their inner resilience and to learn to approach adversity as a challenge they have the tool box to address!
2017
SEPTEMBER: WHAT IS RESILIENCE?
OBJECTIVE: To introduce students to the concept of resilience and prepare them for our year of learning.
RGH hopes to build the foundation for middle and high school students in East Granby. The evidence based program lives up to its speed with the alternative learning style outside the classroom and tapping into team building based programs that help kids build resilience and match the attributes of the Resilience Grows Here principals.
The lessons planned reflect the beliefs and attributes of the RGH principal. The foundation of the program is to help students learn about the resilience characteristics of the program. Team building is an essential part of the process. Not only do these lessons reflect modern problems faced by students. Teachers and parents are also welcomed into this process and may very well be a part of the solution. Knowledge is the key and we believe that the essential piece of this program is to keep it going and focus on the needs of the student. The focus of the program is that we should all take a step back and reflect on ourselves and our lives based on the one solo thing that keeps us alive. Being alive is also very important at thsi iong
OCTOBER: DEVELOPING FRIENDSHIPS
OBJECTIVE: To help students build the resilient characteristic of friendship - both being a good friend to others as well as surrounding yourself with those that are good friends to you.
NOVEMBER: COMMUNITY
OBJECTIVE: To help students build their sense of community which will increase their resilience: learning what difference communities they belong to, the value of community, what their role is, and how they can make a difference.
DECEMBER: ASK FOR HELP
OBJECTIVE: To help students understand when, how, and who to ask for help and break the stigma associated with asking.
2018
JANUARY: RESPONSIBILITY
OBJECTIVE: Increase understanding of both personal and social responsibility and how they affect the resilience of individuals as well as communities.
FEBRUARY: COMMUNICATION
OBJECTIVE: Develop effective communication skills with an understanding of why it is necessary.
MARCH: TEAMWORK
OBJECTIVE: Learn how to work effectively as a team member.
APRIL: EMPATHY
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn the difference between Empathy and Sympathy and how they can practice being more empathetic.