Accrediting Be the Best you Can Be! using ASDAN`s Stepping

Accrediting Be the Best you Can Be! using ASDAN’s Stepping Stones
personal development programme
Stepping Stones is a 20-30 hour PSHE/ Citizenship-based programme with an accredited outcome, aimed at 7-12 year
olds. Children develop their skills through a series of challenges.
The Stepping Stones certificate has a credit-rating into the next ASDAN programme, Key Steps.
Stepping Stones is linked to:
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SEAL
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Every Child Matters
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QCDA Schemes of Work
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PSHE and Citizenship curriculum
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Enrichment
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PLTS
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Personal skill development
It can be run in schools – KS2/Transition/KS3; with youth groups and
interest groups; on residential courses; in training settings – anywhere!
How to achieve Stepping Stones
The main focus of Stepping Stones is the development of skills through activities (challenges).
A wide scope of activities can be used towards the award, which makes it very versatile. Any work or activities carried out in
Citizenship, PSHE, Personal Wellbeing, Enterprise, Personal Finance, Environment (both natural and built), International Links, Trips
and Visits and all other projects can be accredited with a Stepping Stones Award certificate.
Evidence gathered during challenges is collected in a portfolio, while skills achievements are recorded by the child in their personal
skills book, using Stepping Stones stickers.
To complete the programme, young people have to:
Complete their Skills Book and use a file or folder for their portfolio of evidence
Carry out challenges over 20-30 hours
Put evidence in their portfolio to show the activities they've done
Keep a list in the Skills Book of all the challenges they've done
Use Stepping Stones stickers to record the skills they have developed and used during the challenges
Hand in their books and portfolios to the teacher
Receive their certificates!
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The Stepping Stones skills: Communicating; Investigating; Presenting; Using
Multimedia; Researching; Independence; Working With Others; Solving
Problems; Perseverance; Confidence; Respecting Others; Collecting Evidence;
Planning and Reviewing; Looking After Yourself; Budgeting; Leadership.
The topic areas for the challenges: Active Citizen; Community Spirit; Identity;
Personal Wellbeing; Money Matters; Around the Globe; Environment; Valuing
Each Other; Different Cultures; Health; Enterprise; Trips and Visits.
Progression routes:
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When completed, Stepping Stones has a value of one ASDAN
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curriculum credit, which can be carried forward to ASDAN’s Key
Steps
Progression to further ASDAN Programmes and Qualifications is
possible, through KS3 and KS4 right up to Post-16
Leadership
Leadership
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Budgeting
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Budgeting
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Looking After yourself
Planning & reviewing
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Looking After yourself
Collecting Evidence
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Respecting Others
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Confidence
Perseverance
Solving Problems
Working With Others
Independence
Researching
Using Multimedia
Presenting
Investigating
Be the Best you Can
Be!
LESSON ACTIVITIES
Communicating
Opportunities to Identify and Give Reward for Skills Application and
Development (using ASDAN Stepping Stones)
Launch – a special speaker
Exercise 2
Suggested questions
about the special
speaker and his/her
story?
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Exercise 3
Special speaker’s
success map
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Investigating
Presenting
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Independence
Researching
Using Multimedia
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Respecting Others
Exercise 6
Personal values,
qualities, skills and
talents
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Confidence
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Perseverance
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Solving Problems
Exercise 5
Qualities of high
achievers
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Working With Others
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Communicating
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Exercise 4
Exploring the special
speaker’s qualities
Be the Best you Can
Be!
LESSON ACTIVITIES
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Vision & Goals
Vision
Exercise 1
Visualisation
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Planning & reviewing
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Collecting Evidence
Exercise 1
Dream Folder
/scrapbook
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Exercise 2
Understanding
SMART goals
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Exercise 3
Personal strengths –
What am I good at?
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Exercise 4
Good to be me
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Exercise 5
Goal applications
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Exercise 6
Goal Steps
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Exercise 7
Celebrating goal
achievement
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Exercise 8
Hero
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Exercise 9
Personal Hero
journey
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Exercise 10
Success map
revisited
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Exercise 11
Dream Wall
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Values
Exercise 1
Living values
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Exercise 2
Understanding
Olympic and
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Leadership
Budgeting
Looking After yourself
Planning & reviewing
Perseverance
Solving Problems
Working With Others
Independence
Researching
Confidence
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Using Multimedia
Be the Best you Can
Be!
LESSON ACTIVITIES
Communicating
Goals
Exercise 1
Goals
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Collecting Evidence
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Respecting Others
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Presenting
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Investigating
Exercise 2
Success map
Paralympics values
Exercise 3
Additional values
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Exercise 4
Understanding
personal values
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Exercise 5
Valued stories
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Exercise 1
To illustrate the link
between awareness
and our choices
(responsibility)
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Exercise 2
Consequences
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Exercise 4
Exploring the
meaning of
responsibility
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Exercise 5
Open and closed
questions (i)
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Exercise 6
Open and closed
questions (ii)
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Exercise 7
Card games to
practice how to ask
HOT questions
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Leadership
Budgeting
Looking After yourself
Planning & reviewing
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Collecting Evidence
Respecting Others
Confidence
Perseverance
Solving Problems
Working With Others
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Exercise 3
Exploring the
meaning of
awareness
Exercise 8
Physical awareness
Independence
Researching
Using Multimedia
Presenting
Investigating
Be the Best you Can
Be!
LESSON ACTIVITIES
Communicating
HOT – 4.1 awareness and responsibility through HOT /effective questions
Looking After yourself
Budgeting
Leadership
Looking After yourself
Budgeting
Leadership
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Exercise 4
Improving listening
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Exercise 5
Tone attached to
words
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Exercise 6
Body language
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Exercise 7
Interruption
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Be the Best you Can
Be!
LESSON ACTIVITIES
Solving Problems
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Researching
Exercise 3
Peer Coaching (Older
pupils)
Using Multimedia
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Collecting Evidence
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Perseverance
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Solving Problems
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Exercise 2
Expanding GROW
model questions
Researching
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Using Multimedia
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Presenting
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Investigating
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Communicating
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Communicating
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Planning & reviewing
Planning & reviewing
5.2 resilience
Exercise 1
Understanding the
elements of
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Exercise 1
Experience the
GROW model
Collecting Evidence
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Respecting Others
Respecting Others
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Confidence
Confidence
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Working With Others
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Working With Others
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Independence
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Independence
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Presenting
5.1 comfort zones
Exercise 1
Comfort zone and
personal
development
Be the Best you Can
Be!
LESSON ACTIVITIES
Investigating
Perseverance
HOT – 4.2 Structuring HOT questions (GROW)
Personal growth: comfort zones and resilience
Exercise 4
Physical challenge
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Exercise 5
Poster, song, play
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Working With Others
Be the Best you Can
Be!
LESSON ACTIVITIES
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Leadership
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Budgeting
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Looking After yourself
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Planning & reviewing
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Collecting Evidence
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Respecting Others
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Confidence
Exercise 3
Courage
Perseverance
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Solving Problems
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Researching
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Using Multimedia
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Presenting
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Investigating
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Communicating
Exercise 2
Awareness of how
we can be more
resilient
Independence
resilience
Personal development : body, mind, emotion, spirit
Exercise 4
Create a poster
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Exercise 5
Physical challenges
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Exercise 6
Physical education
activities – Matalan
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Independence
Working With Others
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Researching
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Using Multimedia
Investigating
6.2 Mind – using the
mind effectively
Presenting
Be the Best you Can
Be!
LESSON ACTIVITIES
Communicating
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Leadership
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Budgeting
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Looking After yourself
Exercise 3
Nutrition
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Planning & reviewing
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Collecting Evidence
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Respecting Others
Exercise 2
Time given to health
and fitness
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Confidence
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Perseverance
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Solving Problems
6.1 Body
Exercise 1
Health factors
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Presenting
Using Multimedia
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Exercise 2
Group activity
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Exercise 4
Exploring the link
between emotions
and good
relationships
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Working With Others
Independence
6.3 Emotion – intent
Exercise 1
Emotional awareness
Exercise 3
Turning positive to
negative and
negative used
positively
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Researching
Be the Best you Can
Be!
LESSON ACTIVITIES
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Exercise 5
Identifying emotions
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Exercise 6
Experiencing the link
between energy and
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Leadership
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Exercise 5
Mind maps
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Budgeting
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Looking After yourself
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Planning & reviewing
Exercise 4
Application of
HOT/coaching
questions
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Collecting Evidence
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Respecting Others
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Confidence
Exercise 3
Positive mental
attitude
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Perseverance
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Solving Problems
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Communicating
Exercise 2
What ‘gives’ and
what ‘takes away’
energy
Investigating
intent
Exercise 1
The power of belief
and assumptions
emotion
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Exercise 8
Choice over reaction
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Exercise 9
Linking listening with
emotion
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Exercise 10
Sharing positive
emotional messages
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Exercise 11
Expressing emotion
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Exercise 12
Writing an emotional
letter
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Exercise 13
Emotional barometer
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Exercise 14
‘whatif’ poem
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Exercise 15
Using visualisation to
calm down
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Exercise 16
Emotional charades
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Exercise 17
Sixth sense/intuitive
awareness
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Exercise 18
Emotions through
physical challenge
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Exercise 19
School emotions
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Exercise 20
Empathy
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Investigating
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Communicating
Exercise 7
Awareness of
emotional states
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Leadership
Budgeting
Looking After yourself
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Planning & reviewing
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Collecting Evidence
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Respecting Others
Perseverance
Solving Problems
Working With Others
Independence
Researching
Using Multimedia
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Confidence
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Presenting
Be the Best you Can
Be!
LESSON ACTIVITIES
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Exercise 2
Inner power
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Exercise 3
Making a positive
difference
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Exercise 4
Stories
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Exercise 5
Feeling guilty
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Exercise 8
Wise choices
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Communicating
Investigating
Presenting
Using Multimedia
Researching
Independence
6.5 Personal
alignment
Exercise 1
Qualities and values
of body, mind,
emotion, spirit and
how these can be
expressed
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Exercise 2
Supportive elements
of personal
alignment
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Exercise 3
Personal alignment
shield
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Be the Best you Can
Be!
LESSON ACTIVITIES
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Looking After yourself
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Planning & reviewing
Exercise 7
Giving – generosity
of spirit
Collecting Evidence
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Respecting Others
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Confidence
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Perseverance
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Solving Problems
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Working With Others
Exercise 6
Self-esteem linked to
kindness
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Leadership
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Budgeting
6.4 spirit
Exercise 1
Meaning and
purpose
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Planning & reviewing
Looking After yourself
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Exercise 2
My achievements
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Exercise 3
Poster
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Exercise 4
Learning and
personal
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Exercise 5
Picture
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Exercise 6
Next steps
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Celebration and
medallions
Exercise 1
Presentation
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Leadership
Collecting Evidence
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Budgeting
Respecting Others
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Researching
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Using Multimedia
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Presenting
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Investigating
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Communicating
Confidence
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Perseverance
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Leadership
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Budgeting
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Solving Problems
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Looking After yourself
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Reflections
Exercise 1
Learning journey
Be the Best you Can
Be!
LESSON ACTIVITIES
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Working With Others
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Independence
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Planning & reviewing
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Collecting Evidence
Exercise 3
Designing a dance
routine
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Respecting Others
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Confidence
Exercise 2
Throwing challenge
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Perseverance
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Solving Problems
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Working With Others
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Independence
6.6 teamwork
Exercise 1
Purpose of teams
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Researching
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Presenting
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Investigating
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Communicating
Be the Best you Can
Be!
LESSON ACTIVITIES
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Using Multimedia
Exercise 4
Use of time
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