A 12-Month Alternative PSHE Curriculum
BOUNCE Learning Journeys
Regulation before reasoning. Safety before learning.
A complete 12-month alternative PSHE curriculum that helps children understand themselves from the inside out.
Grounded in neuroscience, attachment, sensory processing and child development, the curriculum follows a carefully sequenced pathway that reflects how children actually grow.
Rather than beginning with emotions, BOUNCE begins where development begins – with the body and nervous system. Because children cannot understand what they feel until they first understand what they are experiencing.
12-month alternative PSHE curriculum
30 ready-to-deliver learning journeys
Neuroscience-based
Neurodivergent-affirming
Trauma-informed
The six foundations
The six foundations that sit underneath PSHE learning
Scroll across → each pillar is explored over one half-term. Tap a card to see its sessions.
Autumn 1
Body & Nervous System
Safety in the body comes first – knowing what the body is telling you, and what helps it feel safe.
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Your Body Is Always Talking to You
The Body Has a Thermometer
Your Body Has a Reset Button
Safe People and Safe Places
Reading My Body’s Early Warning Signals
Autumn 2
Openness to Connection & Attachment
Opening to trusted connection – trust is built slowly, and needing other people is a strength.
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Why We Need Each Other
Trust Is Built in the Body, Not the Mind
When Things Go Wrong Between People
I Am Allowed to Need People
What I Am Learning About Myself in Relationship
Spring 1
Understanding Sensory Differences
Every nervous system is different – sensory differences are real, not difficult behaviour.
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The World Is Different for Every Nervous System
The Eight Senses (Including the Three Hidden Ones)
Too Much, Too Little, Just Right
The Environment Is Always Part of the Story
My Sensory World
Spring 2
Navigating Emotions
Every feeling makes sense – learning to be kind to yourself, without shame, when things are hard.
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Emotions Begin in the Body, Not the Mind
Every Feeling Has a Reason
Shame and the Nervous System
The Feeling I Have About My Feelings
Building a Compassionate Relationship with My Inner World
Summer 1
Connection & Communication
All behaviour is communication – every child’s way of being understood is valid.
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Every Child Is Always Communicating
There Are Many Ways to Say
When Words Are Not the Way
The Double Empathy Problem
Finding My Voice
Summer 2
Esteem & Identity
It all comes together – a kind, honest, strengths-based relationship with yourself.
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Who Am I? Identity as Something That Grows
The Identity Wounds of Neurodivergence
What I Am Genuinely Good At
Self-Compassion as a Foundation, Not a Luxury
I Know Who I Am
Body → Trust → Sensory → Emotions → Communication → Identity
Safety before relationships · relationships before exploration · body awareness before emotional awareness · communication before identity
What children gain
Not thirty sessions. A different relationship with themselves.
Self-awareness
Reading their own body signals and recognising what their nervous system needs.
Relational capacity
Trust is built slowly, repair is possible, and needing people is a strength.
Sensory self-knowledge
Language for what their nervous system needs – and the confidence to ask for it.
Emotional understanding
Moving from overwhelmed by feelings to curious about them. Every emotion has a reason.
Communication confidence
Their way of communicating is valid – words, movement, drawing or something else.
A kinder sense of identity
A strengths-based, honest understanding of who they are.
My BOUNCE Toolkit
Across all thirty sessions, children build one personal insight per session. By Session 30 it becomes their Profile – a child-led, strengths-based self-portrait in their own words, useful for transitions, reviews and pastoral handovers.
A Child-Owned Record
My BOUNCE Toolkit
One insight at a time, children build a picture of themselves.
Across all 30 Learning Journeys, children build their own My BOUNCE Toolkit.
Each session adds one new personal insight, strategy or reflection, gradually creating a child-owned record of their regulation, relationships, sensory preferences, emotions, communication and strengths.
By the end of the year, every child has developed a meaningful picture of who they are, what helps them thrive and how they can advocate for themselves – supporting transitions, pastoral conversations and ongoing wellbeing.
Regulation
Relationships
Sensory preferences
Emotions
Communication
Strengths
Membership
More Than a Curriculum
The Learning Journeys don’t sit on their own.
Membership gives you an entire support ecosystem designed to help you confidently meet children’s needs throughout the year. Alongside the 12-month curriculum, you’ll have implementation training, regular BOUNCE Snapshots to monitor progress, a growing library of creative interventions, the BOUNCE Practitioner® Programme, CPD and practical resources that help you understand what sits beneath behaviour.
When a child is thriving, you’ll know how to keep them moving forward. When they begin to struggle, you’ll have the knowledge, tools and professional guidance to understand why, choose appropriate support and respond with confidence.
You’re not simply delivering lessons – you’re building the confidence to understand children, adapt your practice and know what to do next.
Available to annual professional members, teams and advisors.