No Way Through Isn’t True - Lesson 1

Ask your children:  When have you been stuck or thought ‘I can’t...’?

Use examples such as difficult spellings, trouble learning times tables, coping with feeling hurt or feeling lonely as a starting point, and allow children to explain their memories or thoughts.

Ask your children to think about and suggest ways they can overcome some of the difficulties mentioned. 

What are some of the things you can do if you are stuck? 

List their ideas of how they can persevere through difficulties, on a piece of paper and remind the children that when we don’t believe there is a way through, we give up and stay stuck. But when we believe there’s an answer for every problem, we keep working at it until we find it. 

Being HeartSmart means knowing ‘No Way Through’ isn’t True!’ Ask the children to encourage each other throughout the week to keep going in all situations and find a way through.

No Way Through Isn’t True - Lesson 2

Using the slides provided, show the children a set of road signs from the Highway Code. Arrange the children in pairs to work out what the signs mean. Discuss the answers. 

Explain to the children that when we are on a journey, we will sometimes encounter “No Entry” or “One Way” signs. This doesn’t mean we have to stop our cars and end our journey, it means we have to find another way to go. 

In life, we might come up against problems and feel that there is no way out of them but this is never true. There is always a way through or, at the very least, another route for us to take. ‘No Way Through’ isn’t True!' is a helpful reminder that there is always an alternative route through our challenges and problems. 

Ask the children to design a road map for a toy car that has some “One Way” systems and “No Entry” signs (make sure they plan in some alternatives so that the car can get to its destination).

No Way Through Isn’t True - Lesson 3

Ask the children to create their own clouds from black card and use multi- coloured strips of paper or coloured droplets on string to create a raincloud. 

You may want to use the photo provided to show the children an example. Talk about how we need rain (problems in life) to create a colour (e.g. flowers, grass, rainbows). Look at how beautiful the colours are! 

Explain that even when we find things hard, there are wonderful things we can learn from overcoming our difficulties and believing that, ‘No Way Through’ isn’t True! 

Ask the children to write on the clouds some of the problems or challenges they are working to overcome e.g. a new skill, a friendship issue, etc.

Discuss the steps the children are taking or could take to help them overcome their challenges.

Ask them: 

How did you overcome the challenge/difficulty?
How did you feel once you had overcome it?

No Way Through Isn’t True - Lesson 4

Tell the children that they are all going to make a Dreamboard. A Dreamboard is a collage of pictures, words and images that inspire us to dream. 

Ask the children what a ‘dream’ is. Explain that dreams are not just something we have at nighttime when we are asleep, dreams can also be found in our hearts. Ask the children if they have any dreams in their heart. Explain that sometimes we know what our dreams are and sometimes we need help exploring them. Finding out what your dreams are starts with simply thinking about things that you like.

Show the children the example Dreamboard below. Explain this board shows someone who dreams of having their own home, travelling, loving other people, having lots of friends, being a Fire Officer, writing a book and swimming. 

Give each table a selection of pictures and words from magazines (e.g. places, words, fun pictures, careers, foods, people, etc.) or words written on pieces of paper. Ask the children to choose at least five pictures or words that they like and stick them onto a piece of card to create their own Dreamboard. 

Finish by asking some of the children to share one thing they have chosen for their Dreamboard. Help them to turn their like into ‘‘a dream of my heart is….’ statement. For example, ‘I like the beach’ becomes ‘A dream of my heart is to visit the beach’.