Zippy's Friends for 5-7 year olds

To improve children’s abilities to recognise different emotions and to identify strategies to cope with difficult feelings.

Session 1 - Feeling sad – feeling happy

To improve children’s abilities to recognise feeling sad and to identify ways to cope.

Session 2 - Feeling angry or annoyed

To improve children’s abilities to recognise feelings of anger and annoyance and to identify ways to cope with these feelings.

Session 3 - Feeling jealous

To improve children’s abilities to identify jealousy and to learn ways to cope with this feeling.

Session 4 - Feeling nervous

To improve children’s abilities to recognise feeling nervous and to identify ways to cope with difficult feelings.

To improve children’s abilities to communicate their feelings and listen to other people.

Session 1 - Improving communication

To improve children’s abilities to recognise effective and ineffective ways of expressing how they feel.

Session 2 - Listening

To improve children’s abilities to listen to other people.

Session 3 - Who can help us?

To improve children’s abilities to ask for help.

Session 4 - Saying what we want to say

To improve children’s abilities to communicate their feelings and listen to other people.

To improve children’s abilities to make friends and to cope with rejection and loneliness.

Session 1 - How to be a good friend

To improve children’s abilities to be a good friend.

Session 2 - Dealing with loneliness and rejection

To improve children’s abilities to cope with loneliness and rejection.

Session 3 - How to resolve conflicts with friends

To improve children’s abilities to resolve conflicts with their friends.

Session 4 - How to make friends

To improve children’s abilities to make friends.

To improve children’s abilities to solve problems.

Session 1 - How to recognise helpful solutions

To increase children’s abilities to recognise characteristics of a helpful solution.

Session 2 - Dealing with bullying

To improve children’s abilities to deal with situations involving bullying.

Session 3 - Solving problems

To improve children’s abilities to solve problems, particularly when they are angry.

Session 4 - Helping others solve problems

To improve children’s abilities to help others solve problems.

To improve children’s abilities to cope with change and loss.

Session 1 - Change and loss are part of life

To increase children’s understanding that change and loss are part of normal everyday experiences.

Session 2 - Coping with death

To increase children’s understanding that death is a normal part of life, and to improve their abilities to cope with situations involving grief and loss.

Session 3 - Honouring those who have died

To improve children’s abilities to talk about death and loss.

Session 4 - Learning from change and loss

To improve children’s understanding that change an loss can have positive effects.

To improve children’s abilities to use a variety of coping strategies in different situations.

Session 1 - Different ways to cope

To improve children’s abilities to use different coping strategies.

Session 2 - How to help others

To improve children’s abilities to help others cope with different situations.

Session 3 - Adapting to new situations

To improve children’s abilities to apply their coping skills to new situations.

Session 4 - Celebrating together

To review what we have learned during Zippy’s Friends and to celebrate together.

Subscription costs are dependant on the size of the school or setting. Please see costs here.

Yes! Our Skills for Life programmes support the mental health and wellbeing of vulnerable children through whole class, small group or 1:1 interventions. Young Carer Services, Virtual Schools, or other organisations working with vulnerable children who are interested in implementing our Skills for Life programmes should contact us to discuss further.

Yes! Read more about our work with English speaking international schools.