In the updated Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) Statutory Guidance 2025, resilience is described as a positive characteristic that high‑quality teaching should help young people to build and strengthen, by learning how to manage everyday challenges, recognise when things are not right for them, and know how and where to seek help.

Success in school and life depends on far more than attainment alone. Research shows that resilience, determination, and the ability to navigate challenges are often stronger predictors of long-term achievement than academic performance.

The 2025 RSHE statutory guidance highlights the importance of teaching resilience explicitly as part of a pupil’s personal, social, and health education.

High-quality resilience education helps students manage stress, maintain self-belief, recover from setbacks, and make safe informed choices, including when facing online risks, misinformation, or pressures that may impact safeguarding.

Who is this course for?
This course is designed for school leaders, teachers, and teaching assistants at all key stages, providing practical strategies to embed resilience, determination, and wellbeing in everyday school life.

Course Outcomes

• Understand the RSHE statutory guidance on resilience and how it supports pupil wellbeing and safeguarding.
• Explore the relationship between pressure, performance, and resilience, helping pupils thrive in both low- and high-pressure situations.
• Apply strategies to develop resilience, confidence, and self-efficacy across emotional, cognitive, and social domains.
• Use Growth Mindset principles to encourage persistence, positive risk-taking, and self-belief in pupils.
• Recognise how praise, feedback, and school culture can foster or hinder determination and resilience.
• Integrate resilience-building into safeguarding, supporting students to navigate misinformation, online risks, and radicalisation influences safely.
• Leave with a practical toolkit of approaches to embed resilience and determination in lessons, assemblies, and everyday school routines.

Presenter Profile

Kelly is a personal development specialist with 20 years of experience in teaching, leading, and training within this area. Until recently, she was a senior leader with responsibility for personal development at a school in Leeds, and also supported the other schools within her trust.

She currently works as the education and CPD lead for Pol-Ed, a national PSHE resource, writing resources and training teachers and other stakeholders in all areas of personal development and safeguarding.

Alongside this role, Kelly works as a freelance consultant, supporting schools and organisations with their personal development offer, including conducting whole-school audits, training staff and pupils, mentoring PSHE leads, and developing resources.

She is also the author of ‘100 Ideas for Secondary Personal Development’, and is currently writing her second book based on careers education.

Kelly has worked as a consultant advisory teacher for the Association for Citizenship Teaching (ACT) for four years, and during this time has led face-to-face and online CPD on topics involving curriculum, assessment, examinations, whole school approaches, and active citizenship for both primary and secondary settings.

She has also written articles for the ACT journal and supported with resources linked to the parallel election, active citizenship toolkits, and topical affairs. Kelly has also carried out collaborative work on behalf of ACT with Oak National and the Electoral Commission. In her free time, Kelly enjoys reading, working out at the gym, and spending time with her two daughters.

Cost: £150 per delegate; £50 each for subsequent delegates from same school

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