Blackpool FC Community Trust is supporting Year 6 pupils with our successful six-week PSHE programme, Unstoppable. Unstoppable has been developed using best-selling author Dan Freedman’s book of the same name, and encourages pupils to talk openly about the situations the fictional characters find themselves in. These discussions then lead to conversations about the pupils’ own experiences and how coping strategies can be developed to support them through difficult situations. There will be opportunity to be selected for a visit from Author, Dan Freedman, as part of an end-of-term prize.
The programme is now in its sixth year of delivery and has supported pupils with difficult life topics, including mental health, knife crime, friendships, family dynamics and the transition to high school.
Pupils read up to certain points each week and are then led through a classroom session by one of our Health and Wellbeing Officers, to discuss topics they have read about. The use of literature to facilitate child led PSHE discussion is a relatively new concept, however, has been extremely well received within Blackpool schools. All children will receive an Unstoppable Workbook.
