✨Sparkly Schools™️Phase One

Learning how to safely exist as yourself within a caring community - The ✨Sparkly Community

The first Sparkly School - Oxfordshire

The Sparkly Foundations - ‘this is the way’

6 Week Welcome Programme

Every learner begins here before progressing into specialist pathways, projects, mentoring or leadership roles.

The aim of Phase One

To help young people:

  • feel emotionally safe

  • feel seen

  • understand themselves

  • communicate safely

  • regulate emotions

  • contribute to community

  • discover strengths

  • build confidence

  • practise calm routines

  • learn the ‘way’ of Sparkly Schools

Daily Structure

Arrival ritual - soft landing

Examples

  • calming music

  • rainsticks

  • tea/hot chocolate (outside with chickens or guinea pigs)

  • sensory check in

  • pod ritual

  • ‘How Sparkly is your battery today?’

  • vision emotion boards

Calm, non urgent - no immediate demand

Choosing morning activity

Children select:

  • gardening

  • cooking

  • building

  • art

  • animals

  • podcasting

  • Maths

  • reading

  • nature walks

  • calm room

  • music

  • practical jobs

How they show what they have selected to do;

  • magnet board

  • digitally online or

  • app selections

This teaches:

  • autonomy

  • responsibility

  • planning

  • communication

  • teamwork

Community Reflection Circle

What does Sparkly Schools look like to you?

Sparkly Schools will be forever evolving - led by Sparkly children

What we are teaching:

  • voice

  • ownership

  • vision

  • collaboration

  • emotional language

Questions for the Sparkly students:

  • What helps people feel safe?

  • What makes somewhere calm?

  • What makes something unfair?

  • What should adults never do?

  • What would the dream Sparkly HQ look like?

  • What jobs would exist here?

  • How should people communicate to each other?

  • What makes them feel included?

Student- designed culture

Mini skills sessions

Small practical lessons

  • communication

  • boundaries

  • conflict repair

  • emotional vocabulary

  • confidence

  • teamwork

  • organisation

  • sensory awareness

  • kindness

  • problem solving

  • budgeting

  • hospitality

  • gardening

  • cooking

  • enterprise

Tiny bitesize modules

No huge lectures

Reflection + Contribution

Each day will end with:

  • What did I contribute?

  • What made me feel proud?

  • What helped me feel calm?

  • Did I help someone sparkle today?

We want to help boost and build self identity, through contribution.

Make this happen💫
Make this happen💫