How it works
The assembly is eleven slides and takes about ten minutes. It starts with a show of hands on resolutions, then gives four research findings with the study named on each slide, and ends with the week ahead.
Students write three things that went well last term, then pick one thing to get better at by half term and make it small enough to start that week.
Next, students plan what they will do when it gets hard, then take their first step and write down the date.
Every Friday, students spend two minutes writing one line on the back of the sheet about what they did that week. At half term, they look back over the whole sheet.
Keep the goals small and private, and steer students away from goals about weight, food or how they look.
Here is the week, day by day. Each morning takes five minutes and uses one slide and one box on the student sheet.
The assembly
An assembly on what research says makes a goal last.
Gratitude
Students note three things that went well last term, and one person who helped.
Ambition
Students pick one thing to get better at, small enough to start this week.
Resilience
Students plan a first step, and what to do when it gets hard.
Courage
Students take the first step and write down the date.
A look inside
Get the assembly and the week
The slides come as one file, with the assembly first, then a slide for each morning and one for the Fridays that follow. The teacher pack is two pages, and the student sheet prints double-sided, one for each student.
The slides
Seventeen slides: the eleven-slide assembly, then one for each morning and one for the Fridays until half term.
Download Printable PDFTeacher resource pack
Two pages: what to do and when, then the week day by day, with the research behind the slides.
Download Printable PDFStudent sheet
Two pages, printed double-sided: the week on the front, the Friday tracker on the back.
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