Building Resilience in Pupils and Parents Alike

Overview:

Success in school and life depends on far more than attainment alone. Research
shows that resilience, determination, emotional regulation, and the ability to navigate challenges are often stronger predictors of long-term achievement than academic performance. The 2025 RSHE statutory guidance highlights the importance of teaching resilience explicitly as part of a pupil’s personal, social, and health education. High-quality resilience education helps students manage stress, maintain self-belief, recover from setbacks, and make safe, informed choices, including when facing online risks, misinformation, or pressures that may impact safeguarding. However, resilience
is most effective when schools and families work together. Parents and carers play a crucial role in shaping children’s responses to challenge, failure, pressure, relationships, and online influences.

Schools are increasingly supporting not only pupil resilience but also helping parents understand how to foster resilience at home and model healthy coping strategies themselves.

Course Outcomes:

By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:

• Understand the RSHE statutory guidance on resilience and how it supports pupil wellbeing and safeguarding.
• Explore the relationship between pressure, performance, and resilience, helping pupils thrive in both low- and high-pressure situations.
• Recognise the influence of parental attitudes, communication styles, and
  expectations on pupil resilience and emotional wellbeing.
• Explore the importance of encouraging persistence, positive risk-taking, and self-belief in pupils and within parent communication.

Target Audience

This course is designed for school leaders, teachers, and teaching assistants at all key stages,
providing practical strategies to embed resilience, determination, and wellbeing across school life while strengthening partnership work with parents and carers.

Details

The webinar will be online using a platform such as Zoom or Teams and delegates will be sent a code in order to sign in. Delegates will be provided with all the materials and the powerpoint as a pdf.