Recovery Curriculum for when pupils return to school

No doubt many school leaders are working on a Recovery Curriculum when children go back to school. I thought I would put together some resources in one blog that might be particularly helpful. Of course the whole site is based on social and emotional learning so probably any one of our resources has a place in your returning to school curriculum.

You can find out more about a Recovery Curriculum here 

These suggestions are based on what I believe children will need support with when they go back to school. Our children need nurturing they have been through a lot with change of routine and different ways or learning.

Relationships and Friendships

• FRIENDS intervention – this can be delivered to a whole class of children.
• How to be a good friend cards  – these are great for working on friendship and helping children to reconnect
• FRIENDS Lapbook  – this can be used for one to one work on friendships

Community

• Circle time bundle

Anxiety and worries

• What if monster show – a whole pack of resources perfect for dealing with those ‘what if’ monsters
• Master your Monsters – A workbook on anxiety
• Anxiety and worries group intervention – a group intervention looking at anxiety
• Separation anxiety – for those children who are scared and worried about leaving their carer to come back into school
• ANTS – Automatic negative thoughts – a great introduction to CBT where children will learn about the different negative thoughts that can invade their brains and look at some ways of squashing them.
• Bee-Linda Bee powerpoint and pdf is a free resource which can be downloaded for children to learn some mindfulness
• Bee-Linda Bee colouring and activity book – work to follow the powerpoint
• Bee-Linda Bee mindfulness workbook – work to follow the powerpoint
• Worries and fears lapbook – Great for small group or one to one working.
• Mindfulness challenge cards – Some fab challenges for mindfulness work
• Thoughts feelings actions

Emotions work

• Monster cards – great for younger children and cover a whole range of emotions along with lots of suggestions on how to use them. There are also some related free resources to support these feeling monsters.
• Whole School emotional register – children need to be able to say how they feel.
• Emoji Emotions and communication – great for older children to be able to say how they feel and have an understanding of emotions.
• Feel the feels  – for older children
• Emoodle –  for all children
• Talk about 

Hygiene

• Good hygiene bingo game and supporting posters/resources – children will still need to follow the hygiene rules and so this pack is essential.

Self-esteem and positivity

• Mindful moments KS1 – this lovely journal is perfect for children to log feelings, rate how happy they are, look at their strengths, park worries, monitor their mood and many other things.
• Mindful moments KS2 – as above but for older children.
• Whole school Self-esteem interventions – there are year group interventions from years 1 to year 6
• Resilience cards
• Self-esteem workbook – fab workbook, every child could have one in school
• Strength cards

Loss and Bereavement

There is a whole blog post on bereavement which also includes a fantastic free pack of resources.

• Bereavement blog post

Wellbeing

• Calming time
• Wellbeing Pack 

Booklist of lots of useful books

• ELSA Recommended booklist