The Good2Go Programme

Making mental health a priority in schools.

Building on the success of The Life Skills, the Good2Go is a unique and cost-effective approach – young people teach primary children the skills via video.

The Decider Life Skills Good2Go videos are ideal when using remote teaching methods (see below).

Every school is different, every classroom has its unique challenges. Contact us to discuss your requirements and for a bespoke quote for your school. Cost £350 per school which includes The Decider Life Skills online training for 2 lead teachers, 20 student Handbooks, posters and lifetime access to The Decider Life Skills Good2Go video portal.

Further handbooks for students are available separately - see costs below.

Find out more about The Decider Life Skills: Proactive Mental Health for all ages

Watch our video: Proactive Mental Health for Schools

The Life Skills Good2Go is a whole school approach - winning strategies for mental health

Good2Go Programme

The Life Skills Good2Go programme offers effective, adaptable, evidence based, memorable and creative mental health skills for primary schools that are easy to teach and fun to learn:

Manuals and handbooks provided
Teaching videos – young people teaching children
Explanatory videos for students, teachers and parents
Embedding activities: Insider Decider for the classroom and Outsider Decider for the playground
Online training for lead teachers
Online resources for staff, parents and students

Benefits for Schools

The Life Skills Good2Go programme:

Upskills teachers
Empowers and builds resilience and independence
Evidence based and cost effective
Complements mental health and wellbeing curriculum
Develops a common language between students, school and home
A whole school approach

Benefits for Teachers and Students

Schools find that teachers and students:

Improve emotional intelligence
Increase mind-body connection
Develop a shared common language
Ability to manage emotions and own mental health
Develop and strengthen new neural pathways
More skilful, less impulsive life
More resilient, resourceful, responsible, robust, reflective

Secondary Schools

A whole school approach
All ages - for teachers, parents and young people
Teacher manuals, student handbooks, posters
The Decider Life Skills online training course for lead teachers
Online resources for staff, parents and students
Adaptable
Memorable, creative, interactive
Cost effective

Why Good2Go?

Teachers are busy. We provide all the strategies and resources to optimise teacher time and student learning. Taught by video in a weekly whole school assembly over seven weeks. Teachers embed the skills with fun indoor and outdoor activities in lesson time.

“The greatest gift we can give children and young people is the ability to manage their own emotions and mental health.”- Ayres and Vivyan 2018

See below for secondary schools.

Teaching the skills remotely: the skill videos can be shown to students via screen sharing when livestreaming (Zoom, Teams etc). Student handbooks and the parent information leaflet can then be sent, and a link to the online webapp from where they can also view the animated videos at home, and follow the link to download the STOPP app and The Decider Skills app.

Experience the Programme

Watch the 1 minute extract of Right Now Skill (each video approx. 4-5 minutes each)

Link to Roots & Shoots Outsider Decider Video

Resilient Ratties is a series of books written for children about The Decider Life Skills, written by one of our Authorised Trainers in NHS Highland.

The Decider Life Skills Good2Go for Secondary Schools

includes online training for lead teachers, teacher manuals, student handbooks, posters, online resources for staff, parents and students.

Student Handbooks

We strongly recommend that each student has their own copy of The Decider Life Skills A5 Handbook to take home.

A pack of 10 handbooks costs £26 including UK postage, although we offer substantial discounts for large orders. Contact us for prices.

We encourage you to gather your own set of The Decider Life Skills props

Need to know more?

“The Decider Skills is our universal language throughout the school. It has been life changing for some of our families. For me, they're fundamental; I can only advocate how important they’ve been in our school and for me personally."

Tracey Moore, Head Teacher, Amherst Primary School

“The Decider Skills are a very useful addition to the tools that we have. We use them with individuals as a stand-alone technique, and also alongside other interventions. The skills can be delivered by a range of clinicians.”

Dr James Murray, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, CAMHS