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SUMO4Schools lessons are designed to be meaningful and memorable, practical and powerful. However planning and preparing the lessons themselves couldn't be easier. The SUMO4Schools programme consists of a Schools Pack and Training for both pupils and teachers. The Schools Pack contains all the resources you need to start using SUMO in your classroom. SUMO Training for Teachers can develop your own awareness and understanding of SUMO and the principles that underpin it, as well as help you to deliver effective and engaging lessons. SUMO Training for Pupils can help pupils get the most out of SUMO, manage change and transition and cope with the stress of exams and revision.
Helping you implement the programme
SUMO4Schools have a team of coaches willing to support your implementation of the philosophy in school. They are trained professionals who can deliver lessons, or provide coaching either one-to-one or for a group.
Schools Pack
The SUMO4Schools pack contains everything you need to get you started with an overview of SUMO and explains where it fits into the wider school curriculum. The pack makes it easy to create interactive lessons built around the SUMO principles that pupils will quickly engage with and respond to. There's a wealth of supporting material including prepared lesson plans, DVD, CD ROM with animated powerpoints, worksheets, assembly DVD clips, and posters. With the SUMO4Schools pack you can quickly and seamlessly start to build SUMO into your lessons - and equip students and staff to beat stress to achieve their best.
Visit the Schools Pack page for more information
SUMO Training for Teachers
Teachers who have attended SUMO training say it is an excellent way of really engaging with SUMO and helps them to create an even more effective learning environment for their pupils.
The SUMO Inset day is a great combination of personal motivation for the teachers as well as giving tools to manage pupil behaviour.
The SUMO philosophy equips both the teachers and pupils to live a brilliant life. It is an emotional intelligence package which helps them to deal with the stresses of teaching. Once informed themselves, they can pass on their new insights to their pupils.
Creating more positive behaviour is an excellent way to raise aspirations and achievement.
The SUMO programme can be used to develop the concepts of 'Seizing the Day' and 'Making a positive contribution' into the school ethos.
For more info on SUMO Teacher Training Days click here 
SUMO Training for Pupils
For pupils SUMO training can help deliver the skills and knowledge around the following “themes”:
- Making a difference
- Social skills and relationship building
- Managing your emotions
- Taking responsibility and developing your influence
- Motivation and achievement
- Transition and dealing with change
Change is a positive event when you have the ability to cope and the desire for it. Many pupils desire a fresh start and new image going up to secondary school. Even some pupils in Years 8 and 9 desire a fresh learning image as they progress towards their GCSEs. However the desire can be left unfulfilled because we often don't equip the pupils with the tools to be able to change, manage their emotions and enjoy the new opportunities.
Research shows those schools that effectively bridge the gap through transition days, with a supporting PSHE programme, offer the pupils the best possible start to their new school with long term benefits.
Positive transition is one of the messages of SUMO4Schools, a programme which empowers pupils with skills to manage their emotions, create aspirations and take responsibility for their lives.
The SUMO4Schools programme is a fun, interactive, life empowering student enrichment experience. The programme is flexible and can be delivered in a day and then implemented in the first terms PSHE lessons or it can be delivered by professional SUMO coaches to your Year 7's, 8's and 9's pupils.
The benefits of the programme are:
- Equips the students with skills to have a positive experience with their new school year, new friends and new teachers.
- Builds confidence in the pupil's ability to manage the change.
- Provides an opportunity to meet new friends.
- Delivers skills for improving their attitude to learning and their aspirations.
A good transition reduces stress and behavioural and emotional issues which can cause long term school problems.
How to bring the SUMO4Schools programme to your school:
Buy the teaching resource materials and we will include a free outline of the Transition programme for you to implement and deliver yourself. Cost £395 +VAT.
Student transition workshops
We can deliver the programme for you as a Student Enrichment Experience using our trained presenters, please email us at Secondary@SUMO4Schools.com for further details.
One of the challenges for students facing examinations is revision. Often just saying the word 'revise' causes students to put up barriers and struggle to know what to do.
If they do revise they do it because they are told to do it. It is done reluctantly, often half-heartedly, without any sense that it might actually help them.
In order to overcome this problem some students need what might be called a life impacting change of attitude. A transformation in the way those students see themselves and the world around them.
SUMO4Schools is a programme made up of six principles which deliver just that. They change the mind sets of the students and help develop the skills which help to make them successful.
SUMO Principle No. 5 is called 'Learn Latin- Seize the day' and is based on the saying 'Life rewards actions not intentions'. It helps students to stop, think and reflect on what they struggle with but then teaches them how to move on and take action.
Using this principle a 'Revision and Managing Stress Day' has been developed which will enable the learners to:
- Manage their stress to perform their best
- Unpack procrastination habits
- Move on to develop good study and revision habits
- Motivate themselves to fulfil their potential
- Create a revision action plan.
We have three ways to bring the SUMO 'Revision and Managing Stress Day' or the full SUMO programme to your school:
1. SUMO Presenters - we have a team of highly trained and fun presenters. The presenters can come and deliver a full day to 30 borderline pupils or cover a larger number of pupils in six individual periods.
2. SUMO Achievement Coaches - we can deliver high impacting group or one to one work for disengaged, underachieving students. The cost is £395 + VAT per session.
3. Do it Yourself - by buying the Teaching Resource Programme pack. It includes a DVD, animated PowerPoint, worksheets, CD ROM for use on the school Intranet. The cost is £395 + VAT.
SUMO4Schools raises aspirations and achievement in a fun and innovate way. The benefits are motivated, inspired and enabled students who can manage their stress to achieve their best.
To explore which SUMO solution is best for you and your school, please contact us. Or download the SUMO4Schools flyer here.
SUMO4Schools Products
- Victim T-shirts - £10.00
- SUMO Squishy toys - £2.99
- SUMO Pin Badges - £1.00
- '7 Question' Small postcards - £14 per 100
- '7 Question' Large Cartoon postcards - £23.50 per 100
- Boxing gloves - £6.99 per glove
- SUMO book - £7.99
- Posters - £14.99
Pack Items
- Beachballs - £2.50
- Additional copy of pack DVD - £14.99
- Additional copy of pack CD-Rom - £19.99
All prices are inclusive of VAT but not delivery, which is charged in addition.
Discount available for bulk purchases.
SUMO success! What people say…
With the world being an ever changing place children, now more than ever, need greater resilience, self-belief and confidence in their own abilities if they are to reach their potential. SUMO provides all that and more. It is the foundation to well-being and self-learning, providing a platform for children and staff to reflect and grow, learn and interact, enjoy and achieve.
SUMO is a must for all organisations with the six principles providing the bedrock for personal and professional inspiration and application in every day life.
Amanda Gould,
Integrated Services Coordinator, CAF Champion / Mentor / Lead Professional,
Northwich Education Improvement Partnership (EIP)
Healthy Schools
Without a doubt, the “i” generation is growing up in a very different world. The challenges of a fast changing and uncertain future create unique pressures for our children and young people. Their need to be equipped to cope with all that life may bring is crucial. SUMO4Schools is an interactive resource that teaches children the coping strategies they need, in a fun and practical way. If Emotional Health and Well Being is a priority you have chosen to develop further on your Healthy Schools Enhancement Journey, then this resource will stimulate reflection and creativity. Above all, children enjoy SUMO and learn to put the principles into action.
Ruth Boulton, Healthy Schools Development Consultant for Cheshire West and Chester
SUMO Super Learning Day - 'Change Your T-Shirt'
SUMO is a good sport. Dreams can come true. The important thing is to focus on them and have a positive attitude. For a job, I now want to go for being a gas engineer or a car mechanic.
Mohsin Jalil,
Year 11, Moor Park Secondary School, Preston, Lancashire
I've absolutely no doubt that your approach can help build resilience and enhance the quality of people's lives, in both medical and educational settings. The clarity and simplicity of your explanations are accessible to everyone and I know many patients who would benefit from adopting this approach.
You use SUMO as a way of having a legitimate and life enhancing conversation with ourselves, forcing us to reflect and aim for what really matters.
Dr Phil Hammond,
GP, Journalist and Broadcaster
SUMO supports the SEAL initiative as well as empowers the pupils with skills to manage their emotions and to work well with others plus develop the confidence and self worth to achieve.
Zoe Perkins,
SEAL and Behaviour & Attendance Consultant
We have found SUMO to be powerful with young people, as it simplifies solution focussed approaches into a catchy and attractive tool kit. Young people relate to SUMO, it builds their confidence in their own potential and enables them to cope better.
Karen Morgen,
Prospects 14-19 Provisions Manager, Gloucestershire
Traditional subjects such as English and Maths are vital, however equally important are skills that develop a more positive attitude to life. Young people need to learn how to raise their aspirations, deal with setbacks and build better relationships with others. The SUMO4Schools programme covers all of this and I hope it makes a real difference to the lives of young people.
Bernard Hogan-Howe,
Chief Constable, Merseyside Police
SUMO has turned me from a prickly hedgehog, where I would be ready to explode at my teachers to a cuddly hamster. I had been through anger management courses, but nothing helped me grasp the anger like SUMO. It's brilliant! My grades have gone up and I'm feeling more positive about my future and going to university now!
Tom,
in year 12
The SUMO principles are so practical and easy to remember. I even started using them at home. Seeing the learners developing their ability to manage their behaviour themselves and raise their aspirations was unique and so empowering for me as a teacher. I would highly recommend others use the programme.
Lucy,
a teacher from a Gloucestershire school
There is very little out there to really help disaffected students. I believe SUMO gave them tools to really help change their lives. For some the timing just before their GCSE’s was great. It seemed to focus their minds, give them a hope and equip them with real tools to stop them from procrastinating.
Jane,
a Head of a Referral Unit
A brilliant day! The fact that so many staff were motivated by understanding the SUMO principles and 'bought in' to the SUMO ethos means that they will not only pass on the practical advice given in the book and presentation, but the ethos will become part of their own behaviour around school and during lessons. A number of staff came to see me after the presentation to tell me how it had inspired them to 'Seize the Day' in their professional life as well as 'Remember the Beachball' in their personal life. SUMO will promote a more positive, motivated, understanding atmosphere around school which I am sure will benefit learning and teaching, and ultimately results.
Darren Pacey, Assistant Head, Norden School, Blackburn