Welcome
You are going to spend a lot of this year playing. We don’t mean playing on devices, we mean real, in-the-room, look-each-other-in-the-eye play.
We know that might sound a bit kids-y. It is not. The same things that adults pay big money for, confidence, calm, connection, focus, start with the kind of play you are about to do. You are ahead of most adults already.
The shape of a week
Every week, five parts:
- Overview, a short video your class watches together.
- Play, an active game.
- Written, a quieter game with a pencil or a journal.
- Exercise, something to get your body moving.
- Gratitude, a closing few minutes about what you noticed.
The "tiny repair" tool
This year you will learn something called a "tiny repair". When a friendship gets a bit broken, a misunderstanding, a hurt feeling, a fight, there is usually a tiny thing one person can do to start fixing it. You do not have to wait for someone to apologise first. Tiny repairs are a superpower.
Why we made it
Most school days are 100% input, listen, read, watch. Your brain needs the other 50%, try, talk, move, laugh. The games we made are short on purpose. Your job is to throw yourself in.
If it feels awkward at first, that is normal. Awkward usually means the brain is learning. Stay with it.
Your part of the deal
Three things from us, three things from you.
- You don’t have to be good at it. You just have to try.
- When you don’t feel like it, run the gratitude bit anyway.
- When something doesn’t work for you, tell your teacher. Every game has variations.
