mind that gap
Remember when you started secondary school? This year Soulscape helped 1500 children make the transition.
soulscape volunteers do it again
This summer, 700 young people experienced PAUSE. But it didn't just happen...
Mind the Gap helps children for a third year
Over 1000 children from across the Wokingham area have been part of our Mind thGap project, helping children transition from primary to secondary school. With a superb volunteer team of around 30 people from across different churches, we've explored the fears and hopes of the coming school year. Children arriving at Edgebarrow, Emmbrook, Forest, Holt and St Crispin's in September met the Soulscape team at their induction days. We ran workshops for whole year groups to help children make new friends and explore the challenges of their new environment. And at St Crispin's the team journeyed with every child through all of their induction programme. With around 150 year 6 children from St Paul's, Hawthorns, Emmbrook, Westende, and Winnersh Primary [...]
Why? Why Not?
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50% of young people think they are a failure.
This recent statement that we found sparked off one of the ideas for our Self Esteem days at Emmbrook school. What if our intelligence wasn’t all about academic achievement? Can we succeed even if we don’t pass our all GCSE’s with A*? If we are aware from a young age what we’re good at, what we enjoy, what inspires us then this will help us to succeed in those things, it will help our self esteem. So the young people we worked with on the drop down days looked at multiple intelligences; visual intelligence, bodily, interpersonal and musical to name a few and they realized there was more they were good at than they first thought. We gave them space [...]
50% of young people think they are a failure.
This recent statement that we found sparked off one of the ideas for our Self Esteem days at Emmbrook school. What if our intelligence wasn’t all about academic achievement? Can we succeed even if we don’t pass our all GCSE’s with A*? If we are aware from a young age what we’re good at, what we enjoy, what inspires us then this will help us to succeed in those things, it will help our self esteem. So the young people we worked with on the drop down days looked at multiple intelligences; visual intelligence, bodily, interpersonal and musical to name a few and they realized there was more they were good at than they first thought. We gave them space [...]