Research a culture or religion that is different from your own.
Then, create a poster or blog post celebrating what you have learnt.
You could include:
- Important people
- Historical events
- Food, art and popular culture.
Challenge: Consider why having an understanding different cultures, ideas or religions is important when working in a team.
Getting Started: When do you find it easier (or more difficult) to work with others in a positive way?
Intermediate: Have you helped make decisions with others?
Advanced: How can you encourage others to help out too?
Mastery: What is an 'unhelpful conflict'? How can you avoid this when working with others?
Design a new chores rota for your household.
- Make a list of different rooms or areas that you could help with.
- Assign each job to a different person in your household.
- Lead your team to get the jobs done!
Extension: do this for another household activity or routine.
Getting Started: How can you find out about how others are feeling about something?
Intermediate: How can you find out more about strengths and weaknesses in others?
Advanced: How might you be able to motivate others to improve their weaknesses?
Mastery: What kind of leader would you like to be?
Set yourself a challenge to complete during the week!
It doesn't matter how big or small the challenge is. Once you have decided on the challenge, create a plan which outlines what you will do each day to achieve it.
Extension: Set yourself a monthly or even a yearly challenge.
Getting Started: How do you know if something is too difficult for you?
Intermediate: Why is it important to be willing to take on new challenges?
Advanced: What resources might you need to achieve your goals?
Mastery: What steps do you need to put in place to make your goals happen?
Either write down or draw a picture showing what Staying Positive means to you.
For example, it could mean someone managing their emotions following a setback, or looking on the bright side of a difficult situation.
Challenge: Around your definition write down an example of how you have stayed positive during the week.
Getting Started: How does this activity make you feel?
Intermediate: How could you use this activity to feel more positive when something goes wrong?
Advanced: How could this help you to look on the bright side of something?
Mastery: How can you manage your emotional response to best support others?
Create a 'thank you' card for someone who has done something kind or helpful for you recently. This could be a friend, family member or even a teacher.
Develop ideas about what this card could include by considering what you know about this person.
Challenge: Consider how you might change the card if you were giving it to someone else.
Getting Started: How can you share what you imagine?
Intermediate: How can you come up with lots of different ideas?
Advanced: How can you combine different ideas to create new ones?
Mastery: How can you help someone else to be creative?
Consider the problem: a local charity wishes to organise an event in your local area which people of all ages can join in. The event could be sporting, musical, a fête - whatever you think would attract the most people to it.
Consider:
- Which activity would be best so that everyone could be involved?
- Could you have a range of activities?
- What other problems could arise?
Challenge: Bring this event to life!
Getting Started: What are the instructions?
Intermediate: How can you come up with lots of possible solutions?
Advanced: Why is it important to consider a range of solutions for problems?
Mastery: How might you choose between different solutions to a complex problem?
Organise a game of 'Who am I?' with your family or friends.
Each member of the family writes the name of a famous person and places it in a bowl. Take it in turns to pick a name, describe clearly the person without saying their name and see if your family can guess who it is.
Challenge: Use a timer to see how many names people can guess in one minute.
Getting Started: How do we know if we are speaking clearly?
Intermediate: As you speak how can put your points into a logical order so you can be easily understood?
Advanced: How can you use tone, expression and gesture to make your speaking engaging?
Mastery: How can you adapt the content of what you are saying, in response to listeners?
Ask a family member or friend to read you an interesting news story or tell you about something interesting that has happened.
Your aim is to show you are listening by using eye contact but also be able to summarise the story after they have told you it.
Extension: Switch roles with the person, tell them a news story or something interesting that has happened.
Getting Started: How can you make sure you are listening carefully?
Intermediate: What does it mean to summarise what you have heard?
Advanced: Why is summarising or rephrasing what you have heard useful sometimes?
Mastery: How might changing the language (words) used affect how you feel about something?
