The Decider Life Skills - a whole school approach

The Decider Life Skills were taught to staff  who then taught the children and embedded the skills throughout the school.  The skills were effective at increasing the children's ability to manage and control their feelings, understanding of actions and knowledge of positive actions to take. 

The school also ran weekly sessions for family groups.

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"The children's responses were so positive - all noting substantial changes in their capacity to manage emotions.  Wow!"  Headteacher.

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James Murray & Lia Tostevin

STUDY: Improving emotion regulation and communication for children: A pre-post trial of a school-based approach

Evidence suggesting increased mental health and wellbeing problems with children gives a rationale for developing and delivering proactive interventions. The Decider Skills is a framework that aims to teach children skills to manage their emotions and wellbeing. This study looked at whether students who participate in the programme as a whole-school approach would demonstrate an increased ability to recognise and better manage their emotions as rated by themselves, their parents, and their teachers.

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IMPACT STORY: The Ladies College, Guernsey - pilot project in a secondary school

Ladies College in Guernsey implemented The Decider Life Schools as a pilot project over the 2015-2016 academic year.

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The Hub

IMPACT STORY: The Hub in a Guernsey secondary school

The Hub teaches The Decider Life Skills to a target group of students

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IMPACT STORY: Morningside School, New Zealand

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IMPACT STORY: Kintore Primary School

Kintore School created a powerpoint presentation about the impact of The Decider Life Skills (Good2Go) on their school. The school has won a Wellbeing Award for Schools - The Decider Life Skills are an integral part of Kintore Primary School.

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STUDY: RCT in Guernsey Primary Schools

During the academic year 2019 - 2020 several Guernsey primary schools are implementing The Life Skills into their schools using The Life Skills Good2Go videos

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November 2025

TESTIMONIAL: Le Rocquier School, Jersey

"We enjoy using the amazing Decider Skills in our ELSA sessions always as they are very useful to reach secondary students in their scenarios to empower them to cope. I have also used students of a whole class to act out the skills for each other in year 7. It was great fun and a big win on the feedback forms. We were able to get counselling sorted for a student that reached out for help on the feedback form - for this reason I want you to know how incorporating the Decider Skills in our ELSA work is helpful to students and adults alike, so thank you. Thank you for all the good you enable."

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