Unplugged Program

Building interpersonal skills through drama for Year 3 – Year 6

Unplugged SEL Program for senior primary students in Melbourne. Building interpersonal skills, promoting leadership, kindness & inclusivity.

Suitable for:

Year 3 to Year 6

Available in:

Melbourne

Also available in: Sydney

Duration:

4 hours over 1 full day at your hall or multipurpose room

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Links to:

VIC Curriculum

Primary School: Years 3-6 SEL Program
- Critical & Creative Thinking
- Drama
- English
- Ethical Capabilities
- Health and Physical Education
- Intercultural Capabilities
- Personal & Social Capabilities

Year 2050: A computer virus has seized control of humanity. Communication has collapsed, kindness and cooperation erased, and the will to resist is gone.

Only a chosen few still have the ability to think for themselves —the Tribes of Humanity. Their mission is to recover what was stolen and, by working together, defeat The Virus and unplug the world.

Tailored for Melbourne primary schools, this program fosters essential skills, including self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, responsible decision-making, and relationship skills. With a strong focus on leadership and the qualities of a good leader, it helps students develop key personal and social capabilities.

Program Details

This is a deep dive into SEL over 1 day at your school
The four hours are split into 1 hr/break/2hr/break/1 hr
Minimum 20 students, maximum 32 students per day
Minimum 50 students per school
The program is run by a qualified teacher or skilled drama specialist who also goes into role as Flik Firewall and The Virus
Follow up student worksheets are provided

Part 1:

1 hour block

Plugged In

In this lesson students are transported to the year 2050 where they learn that the world is plugged into a computer virus. Flik Firewall recruits them to recover the human qualities that The Virus has stolen.

Primary focus: Teamwork, leadership traits and problem solving.

(Short break)

Part 2:

2 hour block

Stronger Together

Students form five tribes representing stolen human qualities—cooperation, persistence, tolerance, kindness, and communication—and create base camps.

The Virus suddenly destroys the camps and infects one tribe. The remaining tribes must rebuild, working together to make major decisions.

One tribe manages to defeat The Virus, sending a coded message and secret task to the others. Each tribe must perform a scene involving a moral decision, will they make the right choice?

Primary focus: Empathy, resilience, inclusivity & persistence.

(Break)

Part 3:

1 hour block

People Power

The tribes have almost reached their goal but they must decode the clues before they can progress. They have shown cooperation, kindness, persistence and tolerance but will they come together as a community in order to defeat the virus?

Primary focus: Empathy, resilience and inclusivity.

The Ending?

Well, we’re not giving this one away!

All we can say is that your children will be 110% immersed and engaged.
They will be problem solving, building connections, interacting, role-playing and having so much fun that the day will fly.

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Curriculum Suitability

Grade 3 and 4 - Drama

Develop and refine expressive and performance skills by using the elements of drama to develop ideas for dramatic action (VC2ADR4D01)
Devise drama and/or create scripts using expressive skills, performance skills and elements of drama to communicate ideas, perspectives and meaning (VC2ADR4C01)
Present and share improvised, devised and/or scripted drama to audiences in informal and formal settings (VC2ADR4PO1)

Grade 3 - English

Use interaction skills to contribute to conversations and discussions to share text- or topic-based information and ideas (VC2E3LY01)
Deliver spoken texts to an audience using features of voice (VC2E3LY02)

Grade 4 - English

Use interaction skills to gather information in order to carry out tasks, contribute to discussions, acknowledge another opinion, link a response to the text or topic, and share and extend ideas and information (VC2E4LY01)
Deliver structured spoken texts to an audience using features of voice (VC2E4LY02)

Grade 3 and 4 - Health and Physical Education

Investigate how success, challenge, setbacks and failure strengthen resilience and identities in a range of contexts (VC2HP4P01)
Select, use and refine personal and social skills to establish, manage and strengthen relationships (VC2HP4P04)

Grade 3 and 4 - Ethical Capacity

The meaning of ethical concepts including fairness, tolerance and harm and a range of behaviours associated with these (VC2CE4U01)

Grade 3 and 4 - Personal and Social Capability

The influence social situations have on emotional responses and behaviour (VC2CP4S01)
Conflicts experienced in peer groups; the influence of different behaviours and attitudes on outcomes (VC2CP4O05)
Strategies for developing and using personal strengths to support themselves and others; strategies for developing personal interests to support personal growth (VC2CP4S03)
Strategies that support persistence and adaptability when faced with challenging situations and change (VC2CP4S04)
The benefits of collaboration, and criteria that can be used to evaluate collaboration skills (VC2CP4O04)
Strategies that support working independently and responsible decision making (VC2CP4S05)
The importance of including others in activities, groups and games and how this can be enabled (VC2CP4003)

Grade 3 and 4 - Critical and Creative Thinking

The construction and use of open and closed questions for different purposes (VC2CC4Q01)
Simple strategies for generating new ideas and possibilities, including repurposing or rearranging (VC2CC4Q03)
An extended range of general learning strategies including connecting to prior learning, self-questioning, self-explanation and peer instruction (VC2CC4M01)
The use of thinking processes to facilitate thinking, including for problem-solving, and verbal and non-verbal strategies for representing thinking processes (VC2CC4M02)
How to evaluate a proposed solution using given criteria (VC2CC4M03)

Grade 5 - English

Use interaction skills including paraphrasing and questioning to clarify meaning, make connections to personal experience or to a text, and present and justify an opinion or idea (VC2E5LY01)

Grade 6 - English

Use interaction skills and awareness of formality when paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying and interrogating ideas; developing and supporting arguments; and sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions (VC2E6LY01)

Grade 5 and 6 - Drama

Create devised and scripted drama that develops story and narrative using expressive and performance skills, styles, form and design areas (VC2ADR6C01)
Rehearse and present devised and scripted drama in informal and formal settings to engage different audiences (VC2ADR6P01)

Grade 5 and 6 - Personal and Social Capability

How and why emotional responses and behaviour change in different personal and social contexts (VC2CP6S01)
Strategies and skills for preventing, defusing or resolving conflict, considering possible causes and effects of conflict in different situations (VC2CP6O05)
When and how to use a range of peer support, self-regulation and other productive coping strategies; strategies for better understanding the feelings and needs of others and improving empathetic communication (VC2CP6S02)
What it means to be confident, adaptable and persistent; situations where these attributes are important; and what can and cannot be influenced through personal action (VC2CP6S04)
The characteristics of an effective team and team roles including leadership roles; strategies for reflecting on performance in a team role (VC2CP6O04)
Strategies and skills for preventing, defusing or resolving conflict, considering possible causes and effects of conflict in different situations (VC2CP6O05)
The characteristics of respectful relationships and ways in which respectful relationships can be achieved, maintained and rebuilt (VC2CP6O03)

Grade 5 and 6 - Health and Physical Education

Describe and demonstrate how respect and empathy can be expressed to positively influence relationships (VC2HP6P04)
Apply strategies to manage emotions and analyse how emotional responses influence interactions (VC2HP6P06)

Grade 5 and 6 - Critical and Creative Thinking

An extended range of strategies to generate new ideas and possibilities including forming a link between different information sources (VC2CC6Q03)
Thinking processes suited to different contexts and when and how to use them, including for problem-solving (VC2CC6M02)
Ways to identify, structure and communicate an argument that uses sub-arguments leading to a main conclusion (VC2CC6R01)
Thinking processes suited to different contexts and when and how to use them, including for problem-solving (VC2CC6M02)
Ways to consider competing values and the strength of evidence when reasoning (VC2CC6R02)

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Reviews of this Incursion

We are all very pleased with the program. The students love it and are highly engaged.

Armadale Primary School

Unplugged Program