Your Next Move
Time to think. Skills to practise.
What happens when a pupil is removed from a lesson, placed in internal isolation or given time away from the usual school day?
Too often, the answer is simply time.
Your Next Move: Reflection Toolkit helps schools make that time more useful.
Created for pupils aged 11–16, this practical, strengths-based resource provides a collection of short, accessible activities that pupils can work through largely independently, with some initial guidance and appropriate adult support.
Rather than beginning with What did you do wrong?, the toolkit encourages pupils to become curious about what happened and what might help next.
Activities help pupils explore their strengths, emotions, thoughts, assumptions, reactions and the impact of what happened. They practise ways to create space before responding, discover different ways to regulate, consider what they can and cannot influence, and look ahead to the choices, relationships and goals that matter to them.
The activities are modular rather than sequential. Staff can select the activity most relevant to the pupil and situation, or pupils can use several over time.
Modules and lessons
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YOUR NEXT MOVE: REFLECTION TOOLKIT
Created for pupils aged 11–16, this practical, strengths-based resource provides a collection of short, accessible activities that pupils can work through largely independently, with some initial guidance and appropriate adult support.
Rather than beginning with What did you do wrong?, the toolkit encourages pupils to become curious about what happened and what might help next.
Activities help pupils explore their strengths, emotions, thoughts, assumptions, reactions and the impact of what happened. They practise ways to create space before responding, discover different ways to regulate, consider what they can and cannot influence, and look ahead to the choices, relationships and goals that matter to them.
The activities are modular rather than sequential.
Staff can select the activity most relevant to the pupil and situation, or pupils can use several over time.
Topics include: • strengths and identity • emotions and early signals • thoughts, interpretations and assumptions • listening and reacting • regulation and finding a reset • consequences, influence and what happens next • alternative responses and possible pathways • future goals, hope, support and agency
About the organisation
Bounce Forward
Bounce Forward is the UK’s psychological-fitness charity.
We help children and young people — and the adults and environments around them — develop the understanding, skills and shared language to regulate, recover and adapt through challenge, change and everyday life.
Our work brings together mental resilience and emotional wellbeing, shifting the focus upstream: building capability before crisis, rather than waiting for something to go wrong. We translate evidence from psychology, resilience research, cognitive behavioural approaches and positive psychology into practical learning that can be taught, modelled and used in real life.
From evidence-informed curricula and staff development to family support and whole-community approaches, our work recognises that young people do not develop in isolation. What happens around a young person shapes what becomes possible within them.
Everything we create is practical, grounded in evidence and designed to build something that lasts — psychologically fit people and communities, better prepared to meet life.