What is self esteem (assemby/form time and PSHE)

Hi everyone,

During last summer 2023 I had to reevaluate my life. You see I never trully understood what self-esteem is.

I thought self-esteem is based on how you look, how much money you have saved, how well you perform at work, how good are your grades?

You see I was wrong true self esteem is about knowing you have self value, knowing you are equal, you are precious and you are enough. It is something that we should get from our caregivers. I’m not blaming my parents, they did what they needed to do for my upbringing as they worked long hours.

This got me thinking, If I didn’t understand self esteem then there must be lots of kids that don’t understand too.

So I’ve changed my ways in how I raise my own children but also how I want to instill self value in everyone of my pupils in my year group.

Please go through the slides I have animated each statement this helps you pace out your voice.

Slide 2 is what is self esteem, I kept it simple.
Slide 3 is what secondary or (other) esteem is.
Slide 4 explains the problem with basing your life on (other )esteem and not true self esteem
Slide 5 shows why bullies bully
Slide 6 shows that it is the bully’s shame that is placed on their victims and the victims need to speak up.
Slide 7 how (other) esteem causes bully’s to bully
Slide 8 tries to get pupils to speak up.

In the week that I did this assembly we had pupils that reported to us, bullying, we had pupils asking for support.