Bounce Back

An award-winning positive education approach to wellbeing, resilience, and social-emotional learning (SEL).

Completely updated and revised, Bounce Back! consists of resources for a whole-school program for Years 1-8.

Written by well-known Australian educators, psychologists and best-selling authors, Helen McGrath and Toni Noble, Bounce Back! provides practical strategies to improve student wellbeing and help students cope with the complexity of everyday life.

Bounce Back! is a whole school program from Year 1 to Year 8 which provides students the skills to ‘bounce back’ when they experience sadness, difficulties, frustrations and challenging times.

A whole-school, teacher-led, student-centred approach

Each level contains an updated handbook exploring the most recent evidence-based research that underpins Bounce Back! plus ten substantially revised curriculum units, all with updated topics, teaching strategies and resources:

Core values
Social values - all new
People bounce back
Courage
Looking on the bright side
Emotions
Relationships
Humour
Being safe
Success

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Each curriculum unit uses children’s literature, thinking tools and cooperative learning strategies plus a variety of cross-curricular classroom activities to help students:

develop positive and prosocial values, including those related to ethical and intercultural understanding
develop self-awareness, social awareness and social skills
develop self-management strategies for coping and bouncing back
think optimistically and look on the bright side
boost positive emotions and manage negative emotions
find courage in everyday life as well as in difficult circumstances
develop skills for countering bullying
use humour as a coping tool
develop strengths, skills and attitudes for being successful.