Trick Box
Pupils’ personal development is a high priority for the school and is woven into daily school life. Pupils’ well-being is central to the school. Pupils can explain how the ‘trick box’ promotes their positive mental well-being by giving them strategies that help them to be confident, calm and creative. (Ofsted, 2023)
Trick Box has been designed by experts to support children's emotional wellbeing, both in school and beyond. It is designed as a parent/school/child tool to help children develop positive life habits and self- help strategies.
It consists of 24 simple visual tricks which children are introduced to throughout their time at Freegrounds junior School. Each trick is developed further and applied as they move up through school.
Trick Box Is an amazing strategy that we use to develop children’s ability to cope and develop life skills, focusing on confidence, calmness, communication and creativity to cope with all kinds of life situations. It is an emotional management and personal development programme for all of our children. It’s simple, fun and effective. It is based on developing 4 key areas Confidence, Communication, Creativity and Calmness.
Trick Box helps children and adults to:
- Recognise and self-manage emotions
- Develop mindful awareness around mind-body connection
- Build awareness and choices around body language signals
- Create confident, mindful decision making
- Set and achieve posititve goals
- Develop communication skills to enhance interpersonal relationships
- Problem solve and create solution thinking
- Create intrinsic motivation and the confidence to try new things in new ways
- Develop a positive mindset building long-term resilience and autonomy
Trick Box 'tricks' are used alongside our Empowerment Approach to support children to help themselves and have a toolbox of strategies 'tricks' they can use.
