Resources and Further Reading for the Resilience Toolkit

1) Good Practice in an Organisation:

1.1 Public Health England Promoting Children and Young People’s Emotional Health and Wellbeing - A whole school approach

1.2 Evidence of the development of a community of practice in line with best practice

2) Practical Online Resources

2.1 Academic Resilience and building pupil resilience in schools

2.2 Practical tools found under the link above (2.1)

2.2.1 Resilience Framework This framework summarises a set of ideas and practices that promote resilience. It was originally developed by Angie Hart and Derek Blincow, with help from Helen Thomas and a group of parents and practitioners.

2.2.2 Academic Resilience Zap PresentationThis presentation introduces Academic Resilience and the concepts behind it, why it matters, and what your school can do to promote it and practical steps you can take. 

2.2.3 Audit Process ToolThis tool shows you how to use an audit approach to develop your school. With an audit you can bring together ideas about what could be improved or introduced at your school to promote academic resilience.

2.2.4 Safeguarding Guide for Volunteers and Support StaffThis guide for volunteers and support staff to covers how to promote resilience working with children and young people in schools.

2.2.5 A Commissioning case studyThis case study outlines a situation where a pupil needs help with a mental health issue and shows how schools can use the academic resilience approach to support them. 

2.2.6 Character Forming Schools – Building Resilient Individuals. This report features presentations from a variety of professionals on why building resilience in children and young people is important. 

2.2.7 Fostering Academic Resilience: A brief review of the evidence. In this paper Professor Angie Hart and Ms Steph Green, University of Brighton and boingboing social enterprise review the evidence and impact of focusing on a whole school resilience approach. 

2.2.8 Academic Resilience for Children and Young People with Learning Disabilities. These slides are developed to be used with children and young people with learning difficulties to help build their resilience. 

2.2.9 One Step ForwardOne Step Forward is a resource created by young people in care to help adults support other children and young people in being more resilient. 

2.2.10 Pyramid of Need. This tool helps identify levels of risk and needs of children and young people by using pupil data.

2.2.11 Resilience in Children, the Family and the Community. This hand out lists the protective factors for children in themselves, their family and the community. 

2.2.12 Ideas for Resilience Assembly Stories In this document we provide stories you can use in school assemblies to promote resilience.

2.2.13 Resilience Zap Session ProgrammeThis programme plan outlines sessions you can hold to promote resilience in your school. 

2.2.14 The Resilient ClassroomThis resource is designed to provide practical help for tutors and other staff in the tutor group setting. It supports the tutor group structure and helps build relationships between tutors and students. 

2.2.15 School Resilience Survey GuideThis survey guide will help you gather ideas from pupils, parents, staff and others in the school community and put plans in place to boost Academic Resilience.

2.2.16 Schools Commissioning ChecklistThis checklist will help you make sure everything is in place to deliver academic resilience across your school. 

2.2.17 Senior Leadership Team Audit ToolSenior Leadership Teams can use this tool to do an audit of their school and find ways to improve resilience throughout the whole school. 

2.2.18 School Staff Audit ToolAll school staff can use this tool to do an audit of their school and find ways to improve resilience throughout the whole school. 

2.2.19 School Staff Resilience Survey GuideThis survey guide helps Senior Leadership Teams to gather information about how their staff are developing their own resilience. 

2.2.20 Which Pupils Are We Talking About?This resource supports schools to ‘step up’ the things they do to have greater impact on the achievements of their most disadvantaged pupils.

2.2.21 Plan Do ReviewThis resource shows how you can improve results through academic resilience. 

2.3 Evidence of mapping current provision against criteria used for appraising the evidence base for schools and communities

2.4 Analysis of data e.g. children’s attainment, family involvement with school, vulnerability register, pyramid of need.

2.5 MindED is a free educational resource on children and young people’s mental health for all adults.

3) Other useful examples of resources

3.1 Notes/summaries of meetings held with community groups, families, staff, governors, and students

3.2 Ofsted Inspection Handbook

3.3 Guidance on setting up a safe space can be found as a document on the HeadStart Kelsi page.

3.4 The HeadStart peer mentoring toolkit can be found as a document on the HeadStart Kelsi page.