It is around the concept of installing an inner cheerleader - that little voice everyone has inside them, encouraging you to keep going even when life gets a bit overwhelming.

Instead of listening to our inner cheerleader, as we grow we often let our inner critic take control listening to its negative self-talk.

Our lesson plans are based around RTT® which has been successfully used in schools to help children with anxiety and a lack of confidence.

Each day focuses on a different power for the children to develop.

• Day 1 - focuses on bringing the cheerleader within us to life through visualisation using the Power of Imagination.

• Day 2 - looks at how our cheerleader speaks to us through the Power of Words.

• Day 3 - considers how we get stuck in circular thinking and how this affects our feelings, behaviour. and thoughts with the Power of Looping Thoughts.

• Day 4 - is about learning to create positive neural pathways through the Power of Repetition.

• Day 5 - is when we consolidate everything that has been learnt as well as bring the Class Cheerleader to life in our Day 5 Challenge.

The week culminates in a class activity that involves students working together to create a Class Cheerleader. Each student decides which power or feature they like best from the inner cheerleader they created for themselves on Day 1 and adds it to the Class Cheerleader to create a single, quite strange looking, creature. We are encouraging schools to send us a photo of their Class Cheerleader to enter into our competition. Ten winners will have their Class Cheerleader turned into a soft toy for the school to use in mental wellbeing activities.

By taking part in the challenge, the suggested achievable outcomes include: