Impact: Whole School Programme
Embedding emotional well-being across whole schools and growing children's personal capacity to:
- Release toxic stress
- Feel calm and ready to learn
- Cope with anger and difficult emotional states
- Feel positive about oneself
- Improve peer to peer relationships
- Cope with unexpected changes
Impact on 200 pupils in Belfast, Ireland
"Take Five helps us to provide happiness within a world where changes are constantly swirling around us. It helps bridge the gap between daily struggles by creating positivity and a healthy wellbeing"
-Mrs. Joanne Smyth, Principal, Sacred Heart Boys Primary School
Impact on 520 pupils in Worksop, England
"It is most acutely felt when we take children with managed needs or children who have not succeeded in other settings. It is amazing the progress these children make when they are in our setting with this approach"
-Mr. Richard Lilly, Principal, Sparken Hill Academy
Shifts Across the Whole Classroom
Children who are struggling the most, gain the most impact.
From a trauma-informed perspective, children with the most stress and difficulty are able to fully access these practices. Children safely apply Take Five at their own pace. As a result, the most vulnerable children begin to feel their inherent capacities to deal with stress, feel positive about themselves and life.
ABILITY TO CONCENTRATE
Children who were struggling the most increased their perceived ability to concentrate by 56%.
**data from one primary school in 2021 averaged across two classrooms
FEELING CALM IN THE MOMENT
Children who were struggling the most increased in how calm they felt by 56%.
**data from one primary school in 2021 averaged across two classrooms
ABILITY TO COPE WITH CHANGE
Children who were struggling the most increased in their perceived ability to cope with change by 48%.
**data from one primary school in 2021 averaged across two classrooms
Small practices everyday build capacity, resilience, and strength.
When you look at the graph, week on week, you can see resilience-building taking place. Even if one week the children had a lower shift, the next week they "bounced back". The more awareness the children cultivated, the better equipped they were to respond rather than react and give themselves what they needed.
Are you holding stress in your body in this moment?
Children decreased the amount of stress held in their body over four weeks.
