Resilience Toolkit Chapter Three Team Activity

Completing chapter three with your resilience team members

Resources Required: Time: Can be flexible but a good discussion may take up to 2 hours Flip chart / whiteboard for note taking Marker pens Question prompts (see below)

In preparation for your workshop, either cut out the chapter three prompt cards below and have them ready or project the questions onto an IWB.

Chapter three: Continuous Improvement

1. Considering the questionsBreak your group down to small groups and give them a set of the questions. Ask one person to scribe and allow 15 minutes to gather ideas. Then discuss your thoughts as a group and agree on a range of answers for each question, record these in your team learning journal.

1. What improvements have been made so far and what impact

have these improvements had on the resilience of pupils, staff,

families and the local community?

2. What would you expect to see in a HeadStart resilient school?

Are you demonstrating this?

3. What systems and processes have you put in place to ensure resilience in your school? Are these sustainable, valued and

effective?

4. How can you build on improvements to provide even

better outcomes in the future for everyone in your school

community?

5. How are you going to ensure continuous improvement of resilience in your school?

2. Action Planning Once you have spent time considering the questions you need to think about how to test what you think you know, find out missing answers, look at how well existing resilience activity is working and inform your next actions.

Either as a group or in pairs re-visit each of the questions and, using the ‘Chapter 3 Continuous Improvement – Examples of Reviewing Progress’ document to assist you with examples, think about what you need to do to test your answers and gather a greater understanding of your current situation and what you need to do to make your school more resilient.

Record agreed actions on your team action plan.

3. By the end of the session

You should have:

reflected on the improvements your school has put in place to improve everyone’s resilience evaluated the impact of these improvements summarised the features of a resilient school community established which systems and processes help to ensure resilience discussed what else you would like to do to improve everyone’s resilience and how you will ensure

continuous improvement adapted and added to your existing action plan