On Friday we visited Wardley CE Primary School in Salford, where our project co-ordinator Sonia Ebenezer-Bamigbayan was delivering the final sessions of the Hummingbird Project to years 5 and 6. Wardley Primary has a fantastic approach to pupils’ mental health and wellbeing and the school is accredited as an Emotionally Friendly School (EFS) at the Bronze level.
Sonia taught the first class about character strengths, using our illustrated cards which help pupils to identify their top five strengths and record them in their workbooks. The great thing about character strengths is that everyone already has them – we just need to find out what they are, and try to use them more in our daily lives. Doing this can really boost our self-esteem and happiness, as well as helping us to get through challenging times.
In the second session the class were asked to think about ways they could feel good about their future. Finally, they were asked to draw a poster about their experience of the Hummingbird Project, telling us what they liked and didn’t like so we can improve the course for next year.
After inspiring pupils at Wardley to focus on their strengths, Sonia went on to celebrate her own achievements at her graduation from the University of Bolton with a master’s degree in Positive Psychology and Counselling. Congratulations Sonia and we hope you had a fabulous day.
