Brilliant Me and My Ideas - All the Ways I'm Smart (For Kids Ages 5-7)
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Brilliant Me and My Ideas Sessions (For Kids Ages 5-7)
Explore how to grow ideas and think creatively. Building confidence in sharing ideas with others.
Brilliant Me & My Ideas is designed to help your child:
• Develop their imagination & curiosity
• Have confidence in their own ideas and how to share them
• Learn to develop and nurture an idea
• Understand that there are many different ways to be ‘smart’
• Have courage and self-belief in their ideas even if others shoot them down
• Learn that small ideas can grow into big dreams
Believing in your ideas and your potential
These sessions use the power of storytelling and creative activities to help children believe in themselves. Each online session is broken down into sections making it easy for your child to focus for the full 45 minutes.
What do the sessions focus on?
Using My Imagination
Using your imagination can be fun; learn how to take the ordinary and make it brilliant! Using your imagination in play opens up endless possibilities!
Session worksheet here: That’s not a…!
Thinking Creatively
You have to really believe it to see it. Learn how to think creatively to turn a boring cardboard box into something extraordinary.
Session worksheet here: It’s NOT a box!
Growing an Idea
How do you grow a good idea? Learn how to look after your ideas and what they need in order to develop.
Session worksheet here: Help Your Ideas Grow!
My Pirate Map Adventure
Come a long on a pirate adventure and use this as inspiration to create your very own pirate treasure map!
Session worksheet here: My Treasure Map
All the Ways I'm Smart
Being smart isn’t just about reading, writing and maths. Are you good at painting patterns, wheeling wagons, being mermaids or riding dragons..?
Session worksheet here: What Would You Like to Do?
Every Story Starts with Nothing
Writing a story from scratch can be tricky. Learn a clever way to go from nothing to a clear plan for your story.
Session worksheet here: Every Story Starts with Nothing
Can You Solve a Problem?
Use your bright design ideas to solve a problem and design a bridge to help out Billy the Bunny.
Session worksheet here: Can You Solve a Problem
Thinking Outside the Box
Practise how to use your curiosity and imagination to see new possibilities. Learn how to make something new from something old.
Session worksheet here: Transform Your Square
How Do You Find an Idea?
Where do you get new ideas from? Learn how to use your curiosity to seek out inspiration from around you. Be curious, look, listen, touch, taste, smell, learn…
Session worksheet here: Where Can You Look For Ideas?
Creative Play
Practise using your creativity and imagination to turn an everyday object into something magical.
Session worksheet here: It’s Not a Stick!
For more information about Role Models classes look here: General Class Information
Explore how to grow ideas and think creatively. Building confidence in sharing ideas with others.
Brilliant Me & My Ideas is designed to help your child:
• Develop their imagination & curiosity
• Have confidence in their own ideas and how to share them
• Learn to develop and nurture an idea
• Understand that there are many different ways to be ‘smart’
• Have courage and self-belief in their ideas even if others shoot them down
• Learn that small ideas can grow into big dreams
Believing in your ideas and your potential
These sessions use the power of storytelling and creative activities to help children believe in themselves. Each online session is broken down into sections making it easy for your child to focus for the full 45 minutes.
What do the sessions focus on?
Using My Imagination
Using your imagination can be fun; learn how to take the ordinary and make it brilliant! Using your imagination in play opens up endless possibilities!
Session worksheet here: That’s not a…!
Thinking Creatively
You have to really believe it to see it. Learn how to think creatively to turn a boring cardboard box into something extraordinary.
Session worksheet here: It’s NOT a box!
Growing an Idea
How do you grow a good idea? Learn how to look after your ideas and what they need in order to develop.
Session worksheet here: Help Your Ideas Grow!
My Pirate Map Adventure
Come a long on a pirate adventure and use this as inspiration to create your very own pirate treasure map!
Session worksheet here: My Treasure Map
All the Ways I'm Smart
Being smart isn’t just about reading, writing and maths. Are you good at painting patterns, wheeling wagons, being mermaids or riding dragons..?
Session worksheet here: What Would You Like to Do?
Every Story Starts with Nothing
Writing a story from scratch can be tricky. Learn a clever way to go from nothing to a clear plan for your story.
Session worksheet here: Every Story Starts with Nothing
Can You Solve a Problem?
Use your bright design ideas to solve a problem and design a bridge to help out Billy the Bunny.
Session worksheet here: Can You Solve a Problem
Thinking Outside the Box
Practise how to use your curiosity and imagination to see new possibilities. Learn how to make something new from something old.
Session worksheet here: Transform Your Square
How Do You Find an Idea?
Where do you get new ideas from? Learn how to use your curiosity to seek out inspiration from around you. Be curious, look, listen, touch, taste, smell, learn…
Session worksheet here: Where Can You Look For Ideas?
Creative Play
Practise using your creativity and imagination to turn an everyday object into something magical.
Session worksheet here: It’s Not a Stick!
For more information about Role Models classes look here: General Class Information
Audience: Kids Ages 5-7
Meet Our Instructor
Suraiya Essof
Suraiya Essof is a social impact entrepreneur and educator with a passion for lifelong learning, well-being, and social change. She has a Commerce degree in Industrial Psychology and a postgraduate in education, and has been working in the education field since 2002.
She is currently teaching Business Leadership in the Ontario Secondary School Diploma program and trains and lectures at various leadership academies. She is also an entrepreneur and has founded a successful furniture retail business, running since 2012.
In 2014, Suraiya founded Kites for Peace, a global movement for peace that uses kite flying as a tool for social change. She represents her country in kite festivals around the world and has worked with young people in Zimbabwe and beyond.
Suraiya is also the co-founder and coordinator of the Zimbabwe Cares Network, a charity network of over 150 organizations that work to improve the lives of people in Zimbabwe. She is passionate about promoting charity collaboration and volunteering as a means for social innovation.
In 2020, Suraiya was profiled by the Guardian UK as one of "20 Outstanding Women of Zimbabwe."
She is currently teaching Business Leadership in the Ontario Secondary School Diploma program and trains and lectures at various leadership academies. She is also an entrepreneur and has founded a successful furniture retail business, running since 2012.
In 2014, Suraiya founded Kites for Peace, a global movement for peace that uses kite flying as a tool for social change. She represents her country in kite festivals around the world and has worked with young people in Zimbabwe and beyond.
Suraiya is also the co-founder and coordinator of the Zimbabwe Cares Network, a charity network of over 150 organizations that work to improve the lives of people in Zimbabwe. She is passionate about promoting charity collaboration and volunteering as a means for social innovation.
In 2020, Suraiya was profiled by the Guardian UK as one of "20 Outstanding Women of Zimbabwe."