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Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is an Australian curriculum requirement, a parental responsibility and every child’s right. We have:

Kids’ and parents’ self-help books Early years curriculum resources Primary years curriculum resources Webinars and online training

The Children’s Wellbeing Experts

Make social and emotional wellbeing

part of everyday conversations!

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WE’RE THE CHILDREN’S WELLBEING EXPERTS Social and emotional wellbeing is the rich learning that helps every child and adult to navigate life’s inevitable BUMPS and HAZARDS. Leaving the development of these all-encompassing skills to chance can be a slippery slope to mental health issues in the tricky teen years, and continue into adulthood.

APPROVED AND ALIGNED BEST Programs’ social and emotional wellbeing resources have been audited and approved by KidsMatter and the Australian Psychological Society. They not only comply with child mental health guidelines, but also

rank highly across other program comparisons. The early year’s resource, Little Highway Heroes, aligns with the Australian Early Years Learning Framework, as does Highway Heroes - the primary year’s resource - with the Australian National Curriculum’s Personal and Social Capabilities unit - and the various state derivatives.

UNDERSTANDING THE BEST APPROACH We’re all travelling along The Highway of Life and guaranteed to meet both little adversities - BUMPS - and those bigger, more dangerous ones called HAZARDS. Knowing how to effectively deal with these isn’t something you’re born with – it has to be learned– because it’s a big bundle of skills that we call TOOLS. That’s why we’ve made the TOOLS explicit and developed the language and resources for children to understand them, see how they work and put them into action. Because we know that children who have the TOOLS to make and keep friends, sort out friendship issues, deal with teasing and bullying, self-soothe, calm down and stay on track with their learning, do better in life. So we’re helping to grow a generation of Highway Heroes –children with the TOOLS to manage life’s BUMPS and HAZARDS resiliently. This is what BEST’s formula for life success looks like:

RESOURCES FOR KIDS AND PARENTS BEST’s Kids’ and Parents’ Guides have a wealth of practical ideas to help you really understand and manage the social and emotional BUMPS and HAZARDS that are met everywhere. Easy to read, easy to teach, this is knowledge kare highly applicable information that gets to the point and teaches life skills.

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BEST Kids’ & Parents’ Guides: 1) Bullying and Teasing and 2) Friendships

A Kids’ Guide to Beating Bullying and Teasing

Explores the ‘FOPL’ (‘Fact of Playground Life’) of bullying and teasing. The differences are clarified, and the TOOLS to tame teasing and to beat bullying are explored - including cyberbullying.

A Parents’ Guide to Beating Bullying and Teasing Whether a child has been on the receiving end of teasing or bullying - or is the perpetrator – this book establishes the differences and shows how to teach assertiveness as well as how to help a child who might be engaged in bullying or cruel teasing behaviour. Cyberbullying is explored, and safety steps identified.

A Kids’ Guide to Fixing Friendships It’s a life skill to be able to make - and keep – friends, and to sort out any relationship issues that arise. These concepts are explored together with the TOOLS that grow friendships and also help to manage conflict.

A Parents’ to Fixing Friendships Parents often feel at a loss about how they can help with friendship issues – but not with this book in hand. Explore the many practical, effective TOOLS.

BEST Parent Webinars (Available June 17

Join Helen and Claire for a series of downloadable, topic-specific Webinars on the hot topics in children’s social and emotional wellbeing. These include:

Helping the child who:

• Worries • Angers easily • Is disorganised • Has a negative mindset • Finds it hard to make friends • Is dealing with nastiness in girl’s friendships

BEST Parent Workshops

Book a BEST Programs 4 Kids’ expert for a school, community group or organisation parent workshop. Choose from the four listed, or alternatively, request a bespoke one for your specific requirements.

• The Parenting Triple A’s 4 Resilience • Taming Teasing and Beating Bullying • Making and Managing Friends and Friendships • Understanding and Managing Emotions

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RESOURCES FOR THE EARLY YEARS Little Highway Heroes is a Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum for children aged 4 to 8 years.

The Little Highway Heroes kit comprises: • 20 lessons (detailed below) • Coloured teaching resources • 20 sing-along-songs – ready to play on the supplied USB • 20 read-along-books – to complement each lesson • Parent Information handouts • Checklists for the Early Years Learning Framework areas • 8 character puppets - referenced in the songs and books • 1 Sillyness The Speed Wobble puppet

Little Highway Heroes: 4 Curriculum Areas; 5 lessons in each:

Travelling on The Highway 1. Travelling along The Highway; Beep, Beep, Toot ,Toot 2. BUMPS on The Highway; Little, Medium and Big BUMPS Too 3. Highway TOOLS - Think-Say-Do; Helping Me Know What To Do 4. Supa Thinkin on The Highway; Supa Thinkin Highway Heroes 5. Calming Down on The Highway; Highway Heroes The Way To Go

Travelling on The Playground Highway 1. Friendly Me and You; The Friendliness Think-Say-Do TOOL 2. Joining In, Me and You; The Joining In Think-Say-Do TOOL 3. I Care About You and Me; Growing Empathy 4. Sticking Up 4 Me; The Sticking Up 4 Me Think-Say-Do TOOL 5. I’m a Playground Supa Thinker; The Supa Thinkin TOOL

Travelling on The Emotional Highway 1. Feelings, Yours and Mine; Feelings Are What We Have Inside 2. Calming Down Thinkin; Supa Thinkin And Happy Feelings 3. Calming Down Breathing; Bubble Breathing 4. Bossyness The Bulldozer; Comes Out To Play 5. Sillyness The Speed Wobble; Comes To Visit

Travelling on The Classroom Highway 1. The Learning Think-Say-Do TOOL; Focusing, Listening & Learning 2. Sillyness The Speed Wobble; Visits The Classroom 3. Confident You and Confident Me; We Can Do It! 4. Resilient Supa Thinkers; Bouncing Up and Bouncing Back 5. Getting Going; Chugging Along The Classroom Highway

Focusing on children’s mental health and wellbeing in the early years, sets up positive pathways to a happy and successful life. BEST Programs 4 Kids’ Little Highway Heroes makes this straight forward, fun and very achievable.

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RESOURCES FOR THE PRIMARY YEARS Highway Heroes; Smart Life Skills 4 Kids is a comprehensive resource for the whole school, the classroom and for individual or group therapy.

4 Modules that teach skills for The Highway of Life The Social Highway

• Module 1 Sticking Up 4 Me; Beating Bullying and Taming Teasing • Module 2 Connecting 4 Friendships; Playground Resilience and Wisdom

The Learning Highway • Module 3 Tricks 4 Getting Things Done; The Secrets of Staying-power and Grit

The Emotional Highway • Module 4 Strategies 4 Managing Me; Mood Management and Resilience

Each Module applies to school levels Years 1-3 and Years 4-6, with increasing demand for independent problem solving and more complex concepts in the Years 4-6 modules. Each lesson is fully resourced and takes 50 minutes to teach.

Each Module includes: • 1 introductory lesson to The Highway metaphor, Parent Information and children’s Home Activity • 5 Lesson Plans – a brief lesson overview with outcome statements (detailed below) • 5 Lesson Outlines – a detailed/scripted expansion of the Lesson Plan, with a theoretical overview • Coloured teaching resources • Icebreaker Activities (for unfamiliar groups of children) • 5 Parent Information handouts • 5 children’s Home Activities • Pitstop Checklists for leaders, parents and children to complete.

Module 1 Sticking Up 4 Me; Beating Bullying & Taming Teasing

1. Identifying Bullying 2. The PIGS Bullying Choices 3. Types of Bullying and Straight Talk (Yr 4-6 includes

cyber-bullying) 4. Taming Teasing 5. The Triple A’s 4 Teasing

Module 2 Connecting 4 Friendships; Playground Resilience & Wisdom

1. Friends and The Friendliness SPICE 2. The Friendliness SPICE 3. The Triple A’s 4 Refusals to Play 4. The Triple A’s 4 Friendship Flare Ups 5. Assert with Straight Talk

Module 3 Tricks 4 Getting Things Done; The Secrets of Staying-power and Grit

1. Filling The CPR Learning Tank 2. The Triple A’s 4 Getting Things Done 3. The Triple A’s of Approach and Apply 4. www.goalsetting.com 5. Off-Track Thinking (mistakes, comparison and

perfectionism)

Module 4 Strategies 4 Managing Me; Mood Management and Resilience

1. Feelings, Moods and The Emotional Highway 2. Mood, Maps and Drivers 3. Thinking About Your Thinking – The Thinking

Traffic Lanes 4. The Triple B’s 4 Calming Down 5. Resilient Me on The Emotional Highway

“Giving our children and teens real life skills is the best way to build their resilience and coping skills -

I really like the resources from BEST Programs 4 Kids - that both parents, teachers and therapists can use!” Maggie Dent, Australian parenting expert.

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BEST WEBINARS – COMING SOON Convenient and on-demand, choose from a range of downloadable webinars that will deepen your knowledge of social and emotional wellbeing, together with product specifics and program roll out.

• Social and emotional learning explained

• Introducing and unpacking Little Highway Heroes

• Introducing and unpacking Highway Heroes

BEST Professional Webinars (Available June 17)

• The power of thinking – theories and approaches that work

• Emotional self-regulation – the most important life skill

• Social assertiveness – it’s a life skill

• Reactive social TOOLS 4 relationships; Fixing Friendships

• Beating bullying – early assertive action is the key

• Decatastrophising – it is really that bad?

• Hysterical emotional arousal – exploring Sillyness

• Empathy – caring about you and me

• Taming Teasing – rating, reasoning and responding

• Learning to learn; growing a Growth Mindset

• Getting things done – teaching ‘how’

• Social and emotional wellbeing – a Poverty Model

• Resilience – travelling along Life’s Highway

BEST Parent Webinars (Available June 17)

Join Helen and Claire for a series of downloadable, topic-specific Webinars on the hot topics in children’s social and emotional wellbeing. These include:

Helping the child who:

• Worries often • Angers easily • Is disorganised • Has a negative mindset • Finds it hard to make friends • Is dealing with nastiness in girl’s friendships

MORE INFORMATION Would you like more information about our comprehensive range of Social and Emotional Learning resources and workshops? The website is full of information www.bestprograms4kids.com or email info@bestprograms4kids.com for further assistance.