Introductory Session Plan

INTRODUCTORY SESSION PLAN

SESSION: INTRODUCTORY SESSION PLAN Expected Progress: Young people are Description: To Introduce the My Journey Scale through interactive and group work activities prior confident to rate their interpersonal and to the individual measurement. personal skills on the My Journey Form

Resources required: LLN Opportunities: STEM Opportunities: è My Journey Record sheet è My Journey Scale  N/A è My Journey Learning Curve Booklet for staff N/A guidance è Photocopies of My Journey Learning Curve Skill Posters’ if required. è Floor cones or number cards.

1 DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY RESOURCES LEARNING OUTCOME

Suggested Icebreakers INTRODUCTORY SESSION PLAN Finger Grabs è Ask young people to stand in a circle Group Interaction None è Everyone puts their left hand out palm upwards. At the same time they put their right index finger just above the palm of the hand of the person on their right. è On the count of three, everyone has to try and grab the person’s finger with their left hand whilst freeing the finger on the right hand side. è It’s good to get people to swap so that they are grabbing with their right hand and freeing with their left finger.

Find things in common Creating small groups and getting to è Adviser calls out a number and a topic know one another è The group has to split into a group of that size with all the people in the group having something in common related to the topic è For example when the Adviser calls out the number “three” and the topic of “pets” the result might be a group of three whom have cats.

Ball of String  Start with a large ball of string and cut it into enough pieces for all the young people (and adults) in the group. The pieces should be a range of different lengths.  Once you’ve cut the string into pieces, bunch them together into a ball again so that they just about stay together but aren’t tightly tangled.  Get the young people to come up one by one and choose a piece of string from the ball. They then pull that piece of string out of the ball and begin to slowly wrap it around their index finger.  While they are wrapping it round slowly, they should be stating facts about themselves. Some young people will have to talk for quite a while, if they picked a longer piece, while others will hardly have time to say anything! Introduction: Prince’s Trust Welcome PowerPoint Projector Screen and Power Point presentation Welcome young people to the programme, Explain that they have been selected as a privilege by the school as their teachers feel they will benefit from the sessions and from working together.

This slide show provides information about The Prince’s Trust and the Achieve Skills for School programme. Contains some information that forms part of an optional quick quiz that can be run at the end of the powerpoint, or at the end of the session if you want to test the young people’s memory! 2 1. Run a quick quiz activity based on the information shared in the Prince’s Trust Welcome Power Point. o This could be a quick hands up first question OR Create a quiz sheet to be completed in groups