Routes to Resilience

We are pleased to annouce that Diseworth C of E Primary School is a Route to Resilence accredited school.

What is Route to Resilience?

Our Route to Resilience journey started in 2019, on a project led by Steve Harris from Wellbeing Education alongside several other schools in Leicestershire.  Within the project, we began to develop ways to create and foster strong “character muscles” in the children to prepare them for life-long learning.

Put simply it is recognising, understanding and developing the character traits that make us unique and then using these ‘character muscles’ to allow us to be the best version of ourselves. At the heart of character education is creating a culture in and out of school where pupils are given every opportunity to rehearse and strengthen their sense of themselves.

There is a growing recognition of the need to equip young people with strong character muscles that will make them successful in all occupations and will help them to develop into healthy and happy adults.

Click here to learn more about why we teach character muscles and the benefits.

Our  chosen Character Muscles

The muscles we chose as a school to underpin our curriculum are:

                              Honesty                              Love of learning

                              Kindness                             Respect

                              Positivity                             Imagination

                             Communicating                    Team work

                              Reasoning                           Listening

                              Resilience                           Concentration 

                              Curiosity                             Problem solving

                              Empathy                             Questioning

                              Good humour                      Independence

                              Perseverence                      Ambition

                              Confidence                        Gratitude

During lessons, the character words are used regulalry and pupils are given opportunities to reflect on which ones they are using, and recognise how to build and apply the character vocabulary in their work at school, at home, and in life.  We hope that you will want to help them build these characteristics at home as well. Each child's progress relating to the character muscles is reported in the end of year report for parents.