A Prince and Princess have had a baby and need to grapple with contradictions between their impulses to protect their privilege but also honour their politics and hopes for the future. They’re visited by the classic Fairy Goodparents, all keen to shower the baby with great gifts. Fun to perform and read.

Using the Singing in the Rain song as a hook this one page handout can be used to explore the R.A.I.N emotional resilience building technique. When used as an accumulative tool RAIN helps us to manage powerful and intense emotions.

This is aimed at Year 5, 6 and 7 children, particularly boys. We meet Hugo who is famous for doing Headers. There’s a lot going on IN his head though, and when he loses concentration in a match - the follow up is hard. Later the same day his friend Sol comes round and asks Hugo’s mum if they can do a meditation - a ‘breathing space.’ The short exercise changes Hugo’s mental landscape a little and he’s ready to do his homework and then go and play on Sol’s trampoline.

When Millie sees a picture of an astronaut monkey at school, during a space project, the image gets stuck in her mind. The lovely Dr Bashir helps loosen it up! Themes:- Pictures and stories affect people differently… Not all thoughts are true… People have very different ideas about how to help… It’s a funny old world!

In this handout I’ve put some colour to our key 4 emotional states of mind. Most of us spend a lot of time in the red and gold colour zones. The purple is how we feel when we’re ’ in shock’ and the blue…well…usually we’re quite amazed to get here and have to make a constant effort…or ‘go to’ a yoga class. Many people will get a fake visit to ‘blue’ after a drink.

These two handouts can be used with teens to talk about and confront life’s realities.

Colourful handout with examples of sentences in each of the 12 tense forms using the Calendar year as a holding form. 8+++