Assembly resources

Resilience and Growth Mindset

A complete resilience and growth mindset assembly for Heads of Year, with slides, script notes, video suggestions and tutor time reflection.

Year group: All years (adaptation notes below for each) Best delivered: After a data drop, post-mocks, half-term dip, or any point the year group needs a reset Duration: 10 minutes Tone: Honest, warm, gently challenging, this one should feel like a conversation, not a lecture Script notes Opening (Slide 1, 2 minutes) Don't open with a definition of growth mindset.

Open with a story.

Pick one of these or find your own, the best ones are the ones you find genuinely interesting: James Dyson made 5,127 failed prototypes of his vacuum cleaner before one worked.

He didn't succeed in spite of his failures.

He succeeded because every failed version taught him something the next one needed.

J.K.

Rowling was rejected by twelve publishers before Bloomsbury said yes to Harry Potter.

She was a single mother on benefits writing in a café while her daughter slept beside her.

The twelfth no was not the end of the story.

Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.

He went home and cried.

Then he trained harder than anyone else in his school.

You know what happened next.

Tell whichever story resonates with you most and tell it like a story, not a fact.

The point you're landing is this: "The struggle wasn't the obstacle.

The struggle was the process.

The failure was part of what made it possible." Then play your video if you're using one.

The word yet (Slide 2, 1.5 minutes) Move to the three stacked YETs and let the slide do some work before you speak. "This is the most important word in this assembly.