Stepping Forward: How the Resilience Rucksack helps children move from primary to secondary school

Moving to a new school can bring up a big mix of emotions for children, including feeling nervous and excited! But building their resilience, and understanding how to look after their wellbeing, can help them to face these emotions during this time of change.
“Stepping Forward”, brought to you by the charity Boys in Mind (BIM) and the University of Reading’s Resilience Rucksack project, follows the journey of a Year 7 pupil and their friend who has already joined the big school on their way to secondary school for the first time.
As the two friends make the journey to secondary school, we follow their conversation discussing the four important ‘active ingredients’ that help resilience and wellbeing, which are Sleep, Movement, Friendships, and Self-Kindness.
The Year 7 pupil then gets to choose each of these ingredients to put into their Resilience Rucksack. But our purple friend has some questions!
How can these active ingredients help? What are wellbeing and resilience?
Find out in this exciting stop-motion animation co-created by young people for you! 
Learn more about the Stepping Forward film at research.readi...
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