Learning for Peace Package

Building a culture of peace

What's included?
- A planning day with your SMSC/PSHE lead to help plan regular Peacemaker sessions into your curriculum from Reception to Yr 6. Together we will look at your existing plans and other whole school initiatives so that this work dovetails existing priorities. This includes Rights Respecting Schools, Global Learning, Growth Mindset and Values Education. We believe these initiatives can help each other rather than work against each other.
- A twilight or half day training to kickstart the project with all staff. This will introduce the theory and the approaches and demonstrate effective circle time for all pupils.
- Classroom modelling with pupils. Our trainers will come and run a circle with every class in your school to show how the sessions can be structured and facilitated.
- Classroom mentoring for staff. We will join in a circle with every class, facilitated by the class teacher, and give constructive feedback. We also give opportunities for staff to ask questions and reflect on their practice.
- Final twilight or half day training. This provides an opportunity to reflect on what has happened during the classroom sessions, and to give further training on particular themes of interest to staff [for example understanding conflict].
- A copy of the book for every year group.
Peacemaker Courses
Eight, weekly sessions to help children learn peacebuilding skills through circle time.
Pupils develop social and communication skills, emotional literacy and techniques for responding to conflict.


Becoming Peacebuilders

Y6 ~ Up You Go!

Peace Explorers~out and about

RESTORE
What people say about the Peacemaker Courses
Click here for a teacher’s reflections on how the Becoming Peacebuilders course impacted two children in her class:
Today there was an incident and to see that he actually didn’t get cross, didn’t have a strop but got on with his work was fantastic.
We don’t get statements like ‘Sam can’t do that’ any more. He is actively participating both in and out of the circle. He is not sitting back.
Peer Mediation Training
Support and training to build a peer mediation service in your school.
Children are trained as mediators to help resolve conflicts on the playground.


What's included?
- Support pack for the school to help prepare pupils and staff for mediation. Click the button below to download.
- Planning meeting to talk through the process and what is involved.
- Training for 24 pupils over 3 full days [this may be reduced to 2 days in schools where pupils have been involved in a Building Peacebuilders course at school].
- Peer Mediation Coordinator included in the whole training [more are welcome].
- Lunchtime supervisors invited to part of the training [usually an hour].
- Optional staff briefing to introduce the service to the wider staff team.
- Certificates for trained mediators.
- Follow up session plans for the Coordinator to support the mediation team once we leave.
What are the benefits?
- Staff spend less time responding to incidents during and after lunch.
- Staff have a greater understanding of students’ experiences and relationships.
- Improved student behaviour and opportunities for classroom dialogue.
- Children develop confidence, social and communication skills.
- Children develop skills for life.
- Children experience the satisfaction of helping their peers.
- Children have an opportunity to resolve conflicts without involving adults.
- Children have the chance to have their point of view heard and understood.
- Children get the chance to find a solution that works for them.
- There is a more peaceful school environment.
- Schools consistently report that mediation appreciably reduces the amount of staff-time responding to student conflicts, while the mediators themselves enjoy the responsibility.
What people say about Peer Mediation
Junior Peacemaker Workshops


What are Junior Peacemaker Workshops?

Workshop Themes
What people say about Junior Peacemaker Workshops

Junior Peacemakers Workshop guide
This resource is available to help you run one of our workshops yourself.
Click here to download the resource
Junior Peacemaker Events
We sometimes offer Junior Peacemaker workshops at venues around the West Midlands. These events enable you to bring a small group of children together with children from other schools. This group are supported to become a team of Junior Peacemakers and take their learning back to school. Keep an eye on our events pages to see if we have one on offer.
Events