What is ROCKET?
ROCKET is a one-day, interactive course aimed at primary-aged children. It enables them to become resilience champions within their schools.
The group’s role is to examine what the school already does to promote resilience, identify areas for improvement, and suggest ways for the resilience champions to improve. The focus is on mental health and how children can support their mental health and that of others.
Throughout the course, we refer to Resilient Ralph. For those schools that have received ROAR training, the ROCKET course complements and works alongside all the ROAR principles and approaches.
What does ROCKET stand for?
ROCKET stands for Resilient, Open, Caring, Kind, Equal, Togetherness. When developing ROCKET, we consulted and trialled with primary schools in Liverpool to ensure the course would be helpful to schools.
When developing ROCKET, we consulted with primary schools in Liverpool to ensure the course would be beneficial and impactful within schools. After trialling the final course in these schools, positive feedback from both children and staff was received.
The course also reflects trends identified in the Oxwell survey, encouraging discussion around body image, social media, loneliness and bullying.
The children are invited to participate in pre and post-surveys to ensure we successfully inform the ROCKET champions on our key messages around bullying, resilience and mental health. The survey allows the children to express their views on what they do and do not like, which we will review.
Who can it be delivered to?
The course can be delivered to up to a class of children and in a full day’s training that fits in with your school day. We recommend the course be given to years 5 and 6, and you can target a specific year group or have a mix across year groups.
The course is split into five separate workshops:
Session 1 – Looks at the concept of mental health, exploring what makes us feel happy and sad and focuses on friendships – looking at ideal and non-ideal friends.
Session 2 – Learn about resilience and what it means. Reflect on times when young people have been resilient and who help us.
Session 3 – What makes a good resilience leader? The importance of kindness and being a role model.
Session 4 – Recognising that everyone has different views, opinions and perspectives. Look at things from other points of view and explore key themes such as bullying, social media and body image.
Session 5 – Launching the ROCKET.
ROCKET champions create a plan for how they will be resilient in their school, spread kindness, support themselves and others, and show others that they are ROCKET resilience champions. Then, they launch the ROCKET.
How can I get the children ROCKET Trained in my school?
The course is free for primary schools in Liverpool!
Register your interest if you would like to get your school signed up to ROCKET.
Click this link to sign up and register your interest