SOCIAL CIRCLE SKILLS

• Recognise and demonstrate the BUZ circle skills.

• Reflect on cooperation skills and gain skills to work with others.

• Introduced to the “BUZ Power declaration” and the importance of listening.

• Realise that listening is essential to good communication which is a key to success.

• Become aware of the different ways people communicate.

SELF CONCEPT, SELF RESPECT, VALUES AND PERSONAL GROWTH

• Understand that, like a power tool we need energy and recharging.

• Recognise the ways in which their personal power can be depleted and the things they can do to “recharge their batteries”

• Reflect on and identify their main inner strengths, communicate and explain their choices.

• Thinking about what they value and what values they live by.

• Recognise and communicate their own strengths and respect those of others.

• Identify with the importance of “being their own best friend” and of respecting and trusting their own unique skills and abilities.

• Encouraged to make choices independently and think about their values.

• Examine the motivations for the choices they make.

• Reflect on their inner strength and what they believe in.

• Realise that they have the power to make a difference in social situations.

• Gain an awareness of the importance of growing and the ability to change.

• Identify their personal strengths and skills, as well as how and when they use them. They also strengthen the ability to ‘reflect on and learn from’.

FRIENDSHIP AND COOPERATION SKILLS

• Reflect on cooperation skills and gain skills to work with others.

• Use cooperation skills to complete a group challenge.

• Understand the power of non verbal communication and effectively use non verbal communication to complete a group challenge.

• Come up with ideas of how they can work together more effectively.

• Realise that by working together, thinking as or working as ‘one’ they will have more success.

• Realise they can achieve greater outcomes if they all work together as a group.

• To use all of the Power Tools to complete a group/whole class challenge to reinforce all of the skills learnt in the program.

EMOTIONAL COMPETENCE

• Reflect on the meaning of personal happiness and whether they are doing things regularly that make themselves happy.

• Identify different feelings and the facial expressions that go with them.

• Reflect on the destructive power of anger.

• Realise that anger can be a destructive emotion and we should be careful about the decisions we make when we are angry.

• Learn the BUZ feelings management Creed.

• Identify feelings as they arise in the game & create an awareness of communication styles.

RESILIENCE, PROBLEM SOLVING AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION

• Discover that bounce back is about getting up again.

• Discover their choices have consequences and decisions they make can affect their lives.

• Define the procedures and skills needed for problem solving and practice.

• Realise that they have the power to make a difference in social situations.

• Cooperation skills to solve problems. Empowered to have the tools to overcome their fears and place their trust in an individual or a group to support them.

• Develop the ability to overcome fear and failure by building trust.

• To use all of the Power Tools to complete a group/whole class challenge to reinforce all of the skills learnt in the program.