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Activities & Sessions | Possible Outcomes |
Making meaningWhat do we mean by stress? - page 23 Stress spotters - page 24 Making stressburgers - metaphors for stress - page 25 Workbook activity - coping with stress - page 26 Visualisation of coping - page 26 Stress (handout) - page 27 | 1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure 2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing 4 - selects and uses language forms and features, and structures of texts according to different purposes, audiences and contexts, and describes and explains their effects on meaning 5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts 6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts 9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds 11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness |
Stressful self-talkLooking under the surface - pages 28-29 What is self-talk? - pages 29-30 Picture it - draw a picture to express feelings - page 30 Stress under the surface (worksheet) - page 31 Getting into your head - positive and negative self-talk (worksheet) - page 32 | 1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure 2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing 4 - selects and uses language forms and features, and structures of texts according to different purposes, audiences and contexts, and describes and explains their effects on meaning 5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts 6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts 9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds 11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness |
Mope, hope or copeIdentifying coping strategies - pages 33-34 Coping collections - pages 34-35 Bunch of fives - designing useful coping strategies - page 36 Cope cards (templates) - pages 37-45 Bunches of fives (worksheet) - page 46 | 1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure 2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing 4 - selects and uses language forms and features, and structures of texts according to different purposes, audiences and contexts, and describes and explains their effects on meaning 5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts 6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts 9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds 11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness |
Getting helpGetting help - pages 47-48 Support networks - page 48 Help card - page 48 What if? scenarios (handout) - page 49 Support network (worksheet) - page 50 | 1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure 2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing 5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts 6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts 9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds 11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness |
Getting it saidRole-play explanation - pages 51-52 Persuading a friend to seek help - pages 52-53 Telling someone you need help - pages 53-54 Seeking help for a friend - pages 54-55 Talking heads (worksheet) - page 56 | 1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure 2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing 4 - selects and uses language forms and features, and structures of texts according to different purposes, audiences and contexts, and describes and explains their effects on meaning 5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts 6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts 9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds 11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness |
Is it the same for boys & girls?Is it the same for boys & girls? - page 57 Sample questions - page 58 Coping styles (handout) - page 59 | 1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure 2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing 5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts 6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts 9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds 10 - questions, challenges and evaluates cultural assumptions in texts and their effects on meaning 11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness |
The experts speakThe experts speak - chat show ‘How the modern teenager copes with the stresses of modern life’ - pages 60-61 | 1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure 2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing 5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts 6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts 9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds 11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness |
Group supportSmarties relay - pages 67-68 Sample questions to discuss support, encouragement and cheating - page 68 | 2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing 11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness |
TrustBlindfold walk - pages 69-70 Sample questions to discuss trust - page 71 | 2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing 11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness |
Relaxation exercisesGuided relaxation - page 72 Guided relaxation - pages 73-76 | 2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing 11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness |
Protective layersCostume race - pages 77-78 Getting attention, reaching goals, protection from negative thoughts and put-downs, building protective layers around self sample questions - page 78 | 1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure 2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing 5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts 6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts 9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds 11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness |
Supportive structuresFive ways to lift a peer - page 79 Designing social support - page 80 | 1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure 2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing 5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts 6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts 9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds 11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness |
Goal settingHot-air goals - feelings about achieving/not achieving goals - pages 81-83 | 1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure 2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing 4 - selects and uses language forms and features, and structures of texts according to different purposes, audiences and contexts, and describes and explains their effects on meaning 5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts 6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts 9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds 11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness |
Difficult decisionsSharkMeat role-play - pages 84-85 Processing questions for players - page 85 Sample questions - page 86 SharkMeat cards (templates) - page 87 | 1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure 2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing 4 - selects and uses language forms and features, and structures of texts according to different purposes, audiences and contexts, and describes and explains their effects on meaning 5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts 6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts 9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds 11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness |
Conflict mapsDealing with conflict - pages 88-90 Sample questions to deal with conflict - page 90 Conflict map (worksheet) - page 91 | 1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure 2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing 4 - selects and uses language forms and features, and structures of texts according to different purposes, audiences and contexts, and describes and explains their effects on meaning 5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts 6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts 7 - thinks critically and interpretively using information, ideas and increasingly complex arguments to respond to and compose texts in a range of contexts 9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds 11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness |





