Perseverance - Persistence Pays Off

The animated series Bluey serves as a valuable tool in fostering children's development of imagination, curiosity, and social and emotional learning. This activity uses intentional teaching strategies to focus on the capability of 'perseverance'. Children will explore perseverance by learning a new skill. They focus on trusting themselves to give new experiences a try and use simple statements like ‘I believe I can do it’ to help them succeed. This activity is a fun way to attempt a new challenge and can be used to find out what it takes to be persistent and persevere to achieve a new skill.

Learning intentions:

This suite of resources has been designed to provide opportunities for children to explore social and emotional learning through imaginative play and also supports oral language development through a values framework. Each activity uses intentional teaching strategies to develop a specific value. This activity focuses on:

Click here for a full list of the values that underpin these activities.

This lesson showcases a Bluey episode, which can be viewed on ClickView. Don't have a ClickView subscription? Bluey is also available on ABC iView. For real life!