Weaving Hope
Lean into your strengths with a team work activity.
Lean into your strengths with a team work activity.
Many schools, kura and classrooms have special manu and rākau they associate with. We've created these to add to your classroom and learn from.
This activity takes inspiration from the ordinary, yet extraordinary things in our natural world, as a mindfulness technique.
An interactive game that explores all the things we have in common, rather than focusing on our differences.
A game for identifying, naming and sharing emotions.
A crafty activity that will give tamariki a calming keepsake.
An energising game of compliment giving and receiving.
Make fun, feel-good posters for your classroom.
Two games that helps students discover their inner pause button.
Our favourite ideas for teaching and encouraging gratitude.
Expressing gratitude and giving back through special surprises.
Extending the connection between music and emotions.
Celebrating our strengths and being unique.
Use the Whare Tapa Whā hauora model to check in with your collective tamariki wellbeing.
This activity encourages tamariki to think about their wellbeing, all the ways they can boost it and some of the great stuff they're already doing.
A fun way to foster kindness, gratitude and the joy of giving.
Our favourite ideas for boosting kindness at school and beyond.
A traditional, fun and energetic challenge for tamariki.
A habits activity to help Year 7 and 8 tamariki build empathy and learn new friendship skills
A trust game without any risk! This activity is designed to help tamariki work together on a shared goal
These energising warm-ups encourage team work and communication.
Create an interactive classroom rollercoaster, and support tamariki to develop their emotional literacy and regulation
A fun activity to help tamariki overcome inhibitions and get to know each other better
We’ve created this activity to encourage tamariki to think about Pink Shirt Day beyond the colour pink.
This activity helps tamariki learn to manage emotions using a playground slide as a visualisation tool.
A fun and memorable lesson about diversity, acceptance and being our true selves
A co-design approach to creating a culture of kindness in your classroom and school.
Help tamariki find the ways that best suit them to support their hauora and wellbeing.
When we're tired and tamariki are tired, tiny, quiet activities give us the time we all need to 'refresh'. Here's some go-to's from our weekly e-newsletter.
Te Whare Tapa Whā provides an excellent way for tamariki to kōrero and understand school values and the positive difference they make.
A quiz to help senior students find their strengths and make a set of strengths cards.
A funny game for helping tamariki understand and feel good about their strengths
Activities to help senior students start using and developing their strengths.
A tamariki-led approach to creating a culture of kindness in your school.
This is a handy printable guide you might send home with tamariki for whānau in the lead up to Pink Shirt Day and to support kindness and friendship.
When it's a first day back after a break, this activity provides and opportunity to kōrero about this and express how they're doing.
This fantastic story for tamariki in years 5-8, explores independence, how we see ourselves and finding the courage to "ask for help with the hard bits".
A resiliency-based set of activities based on reading, or listening to the book Rising Tide (He Tai Pari) – in English and/or te reo Māori.
We all know books have super powers. Here’s an activity that will use them to help tamariki develop emotional literacy, tune in to how others are feeling and know how to react to different emotions.