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 [...]