CRESST Drama Club – starting Spring half term 2021
Online drama club offers a fun way to practice peer mediation skills during lockdown It’s the time of year for our Peer Mediators’ Conference For the past 14 years, CRESST has held the annual Peer...
View ArticleTake five at home – Monday-mini activities
To support children and parents during lockdown, CRESST has developed some simple creative activities for home. These are based on our experience of providing training for children that helps them to...
View ArticleIf it’s stormy, do you know your way to find safe harbour?
At CRESST we say that conflict is something that happens almost everyday and to everyone. And conflict doesn’t have to be a bad thing – it’s how we deal with conflict that makes the difference. It’s...
View ArticleJoining in and helping out at home – Monday-mini activities
While many children are spending more time at home and participating in remote learning, CRESST wanted to provide some activities to do at home. Our Monday-mini activities (which can be done on any day...
View ArticleListen, be curious, be generous and try to be friends again
At first glance, handling conflict well appears to be pretty straightforward. CRESST offers this summary in our Young Peacemakers Project lessons for Y5 and Y6: listen, be curious, be generous and try...
View ArticleWhen is a conflict not a conflict?
At CRESST we know that conflict is an everyday thing and sometimes it’s not even that easy to notice when it’s happening. In ongoing relationships, we often find ways to minimise conflict or to...
View ArticleCRESST is celebrating – five years of peer mediation success!
Training peer mediators in primary schools has been CRESST’s core work since we first started in 2004 – and that’s a lot of peer mediator training! We’ve worked with 75 primary schools, many of which...
View ArticleExplained: Peer Mediation
Monday, 16th May | 15:45-16:45 Do you spend valuable learning time after lunch dealing with playground conflict? Would you like your pupils to learn better ways to handle fallouts and sustain...
View ArticleTeach Co Awards 2022
We are ecstatic to announce that CRESST’s K3 PSHE Lessons: Curious about conflict, have been shortlisted for the Teach Secondary Awards 2022 under the Health and Wellbeing category. The winner and two...
View ArticleGetting the most out of The Peer Mediation Coordinator’s Training Manual
On 22nd November we will be holding a free online workshop for primary teachers who are using, or plan to use our award-winning Peer Mediation Coordinator’s Training Manual. Sign up at...
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