Enhancing Resilience 2 links to The Arts

Coping

Making meaning
Making stressburgers - metaphors for stress - page 25

Teacher Talk 

The activities in Enhancing Resilience 1 can be used across the curriculum. They can be used at the beginning of each school year as new class-groups establish a working routine, atmosphere of trust, safety and acceptance.

Arts Practice

4.1 Explores arts practice and knowledge of style, form and genre, to create/re-create arts works within each arts form that present imaginative solutions and responses to ideas and issues.

4.2 Selects from adapts, combines and refines appropriate conventions and technologies to create/re-create arts works that purposefully convey meaning and address intended function.

4.3 Works as an individual or in groups to refine and shape presentations/performances for a specific purpose and for different groups of audiences/viewers.

Thinking

1. Using a wide range of thinking modes

Demonstrates a full range of thinking styles and capabilities, eg cognitive, intuitive, use of multiple intelligences like visual, spatial, environmental, spiritual, musical, and lower and higher order thinking skills.

Takes risks in thinking, uses creative and imaginative processes, is independent and interdependent and shares thinking processes with others.

Coping

Stressful self-talk
Looking under the surface - pages 28-29

What is self-talk?
Picture it - page 30

Stress under the surface (worksheet) - page 31

Getting into your head (worksheet) - page 32

Getting it said
Role-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

Teacher Talk

Start a lesson by commenting on positive behaviour you have noticed in each student.

Arts

Arts Practice

4.1 Explores arts practice and knowledge of style, form and genre, to create/re-create arts works within each arts form that present imaginative solutions and responses to ideas and issues.

4.2 Selects from adapts, combines and refines appropriate conventions and technologies to create/re-create arts works that purposefully convey meaning and address intended function.

4.3 Works as an individual or in groups to refine and shape presentations/performances for a specific purpose and for different groups of audiences/viewers.

Identity 

1. Understanding self, group and others

Develops self-awareness and understanding with a strong sense of self-worth in social and working contexts.

Coping

The 'experts' speak
The 'experts' speak - pages 60-61

Arts

Arts Practice

4.1 Explores arts practice and knowledge of style, form and genre, to create/re-create arts works within each arts form that present imaginative solutions and responses to ideas and issues.

4.2 Selects from adapts, combines and refines appropriate conventions and technologies to create/re-create arts works that purposefully convey meaning and address intended function.

4.3 Works as an individual or in groups to refine and shape presentations/performances for a specific purpose and for different groups of audiences/viewers.

Communication

1. Understanding the complexity and power of language and data and their pivotal role in communication

Is able to use language effectively to communicate ideas, information, values and emotions, in individual, group and social contexts.

Is aware of the power and function of different discourses and adapts communication to different people and contexts.

2. Understanding how communication works

Engages in critical debate and explains and advocates positions to different audiences and in different settings.

Protective layers

Costume race - pages 77-78

Sample questions - page 78

Arts

Arts Practice

4.1 Explores arts practice and knowledge of style, form and genre, to create/re-create arts works within each arts form that present imaginative solutions and responses to ideas and issues.

4.2 Selects from adapts, combines and refines appropriate conventions and technologies to create/re-create arts works that purposefully convey meaning and address intended function.

4.3 Works as an individual or in groups to refine and shape presentations/performances for a specific purpose and for different groups of audiences/viewers.

Identity

1. Understanding self, group and others

Develops self-awareness and understanding with a strong sense of self-worth in social and working contexts.

3. Relating effectively to others regardless of their identities

Identifies actions taken individually or structurally to address issues around identity, eg harassment, racism, sexism, homophobia.

Difficult decisions

SharkMeat role-play - pages 84-85

Processing questions for players - page 85

Sample questions - page 86

SharkMeat cards (templates) - page 87

Arts

Arts Practice

4.1 Explores arts practice and knowledge of style, form and genre, to create/re-create arts works within each arts form that present imaginative solutions and responses to ideas and issues.

4.2 Selects from adapts, combines and refines appropriate conventions and technologies to create/re-create arts works that purposefully convey meaning and address intended function.

4.3 Works as an individual or in groups to refine and shape presentations/performances for a specific purpose and for different groups of audiences/viewers.

Futures

3. Building scenarios of preferred futures

Considers the future from ethical, aesthetic, emotional and intuitive, as well as rational perspectives, in order to gain new insights.