Resilience
Resilience is the ability to adapt to challenges through mental, emotional, and behavioural flexibility. It is not just a personal trait but arises from the interaction between individuals and their environment, like family, community, and society. Resilience is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioural flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands. A number of factors contribute to how well people adapt to adversities, including the ways in which individuals view and engage with the world, the availability and quality of social resources, and specific coping strategies.
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Nest Tag Game
The students pair up, standing facing each other while holding hands, and are scattered around to form “nests.” One player is designated as the “tagger” and another as the “runner.” The tagger starts chasing the runner, who can hide in any of the nests. Upon entering a nest, the runner grabs both hands of the player standing opposite them, causing the player behind them to be pushed out of the nest. That player must then run and becomes the new runner. Roles switch when the tagger touches the runner before they manage to enter a nest. Skill focus Primary Skill…
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Black-and-White Tag Game
Starting from the centre of the playing field, starting lines are marked approximately 1 meter away in both directions, and boundary lines are marked about 10 meters away. (The starting positions can be adjusted according to the available space.). Skill focus Primary Skill Focus Complementary/Secondary Skill Focus Age group Student number Duration 6+ class size 5-10 minutes
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Hopping Cats
In this tactical board game played on a 6×6 grid, the goal is to line up three cats of the same colour (small or large) horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Cats can “bounce”: small cats may only push other small ones, while large cats can move any other cat—provided the square behind them (in the same direction) is empty. When a trio of small cats is formed, they are removed from the board and replaced—one by one—by large cats from the same player. The final goal is to create a line of three large cats of the same colour. Skill focus…