We deliver mainstream curriculum-based lessons in Personal, Social & Health Education, Religious Education, Sex & Relationships Education and Music. We provide 6 week mini programmes designed to support children and young people in developing healthy self esteem and overcoming negative behaviour. These are highly interactive programmes that draw on a variety of teaching methods:
Boys In The Wood takes Year 6 boys out of the classroom into a woodland environment where they develop teamwork skills and begin to understand the consequences of their actions through building shelters, rope ladders and bridges between trees!
Being A Man works with Year 9 or 10 lads who are prone to expressing their masculinity in negative ways. The course features a specially devised card game, video clips and utilises iPads with which the lads create music. Everything is geared towards helping them discover who they are, begin to imagine a positive future and give the tools to overcome potential obstacles.
ID gathers 10 girls from Years 8 or 9 who have been referred due to perceived difficulties around self-esteem, self-expression or anger management. The programme draws on media campaigns to challenge the way that a woman's identity is distorted through image manipulation and gives the girls creative freedom to express who they are.
We have also devised a scheme that bridges school and the local community called Junior Wardens. Children from local primary schools are trained and equipped to respond to various challenges that their community faces. They have cleaned graffiti, raised awareness of the risk to wildlife by improper disposal of household chemicals and joined a campaign to protect ducklings in a nearby lake!
If you are a teacher and interested in UDB coming to your school we would love to hear from you!
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