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BUDDY CLUB

Buddy Club is a programme packed with resources designed to assist children with neurodevelopmental differences leading to challenges in social instinct or social confidence. It aims to improve children’s social and emotional understanding in a variety of ways.

  • Buddy, the Buddy Club mascot, becomes a Buddy Mentor for the children as he exposes them to a new Buddy awareness each story.
  • The programme is best suited to children with a mild presentation of Autism Spectrum Disorder, ideally in a mainstream curriculum context from Grade 00 to Grade 7.

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Buddy Club is a resource-rich programme designed to assist children with neurodevelopmental differences who experience challenges in social instinct or social confidence. Buddy, the programme’s mascot, becomes a Buddy Mentor as he guides children through a new social awareness story each session. The programme includes stories, posters, activities, lesson plans, and parent handouts structured across four terms:

Term 1: Meet & Greet – Increasing children’s greeting awareness.
Term 2: Faces & Feelings – Increasing children’s emotional awareness.
Term 3: Chit & Chat – Increasing children’s conversational awareness.
Term 4: Play & Pretend – Increasing children’s play awareness.

Best suited to children with a mild presentation of Autism Spectrum Disorder in a mainstream curriculum context, from Grade 00 to Grade 7.

Programme options

Individual Child’s Needs:

Purchase activities, stories or posters off the website (instant download) to focus on a child’s specific area that they find challenging.

Group Programmes for Purchase:

The group programme is for centres/schools wanting to implement the group programme themselves. Includes stories, posters, activities, lesson plans and parent handouts for the term.

Home Programmes for Purchase:

The parent home programme is for children who are not ready for group sessions or unable to travel to the sites where group programmes are offered. Includes stories, posters, activities, and parent handouts for the term.

Social Understanding Groups:

Is your child needing socialisation? Enquire to see if a Buddy Club group is available near you! The group programme is best suited to children with a mild presentation of Autism Spectrum Disorder and ideally in a mainstream curriculum context from Grade 00 to Grade 7.

Pre-Primary topics

Term 1: Meet & Greet
Face Contact, Friendly Face, Different Voices, Greeting People By Name, Greeting People With Words, Greeting People With My Body, Giving My Name, How Are You?

Term 2: Faces & Feelings
Checking Faces, Things That Make Me Feel Happy, Things That Make Me Feel Angry, Things That Make Me Feel Scared, Things That Make Me Feel Sad, The Angry Rules, I Can Face My Fears, It’s Okay To Cry

Term 3: Chit & Chat
Kind Words, Using My Words, Manners, Kind Face, Kind Voice, Kind Body, Asking & Answering Questions, Asking For Help

Term 4: Play & Pretend
It’s Fun To Play With Friends, Personal Space, Gentle Hands, Sharing, Taking Turns, Can I Play?, Come Play With Me, Who’s The Boss?

Junior Primary topics

Term 1: Meet & Greet
The Greeting Rules, Sharing Names, Introductions, Forgetting Names, Stranger Danger, Showing Respect, Showing Interest, Trading Information

Term 2: Faces & Feelings
The Emotion Thermometer, The Joy Thermometer, The Anger Thermometer, The Fear Thermometer, The Sadness Thermometer, What To Do When I Feel Angry, What To Do When I Feel Scared, What To Do When I Feel Sad

Term 3: Chit & Chat
Asking Appropriate Questions, Waiting My Turn To Speak, Responding To Unkind Comments, Telling & Tattling, Encouraging, Disagreeing, Apologising, Humour

Term 4: Play & Pretend
Fun To Be With, Boundaries, Playing Rough, Winning & Losing, Good Enough, Joining In, Playdates, Control Myself Not Others

Senior Primary topics

Term 1: Meet & Greet
Being Myself, First Impressions Matter, Formal & Informal Greetings With Words, Formal & Informal Greetings Using My Body, Talking To Strangers, Telephone Manners, Giving Accepting & Refusing An Invitation, Over- and Under-Sharing

Term 2: Faces & Feelings
Talking About Feelings, The Feelings Burger, Nonverbal Emotional Injuries, Verbal Emotional Injuries, Letting Go Of Hurts, Gratitude, Thinking & Feeling, Mindfulness

Term 3: Chit & Chat
Sharing Information, Being A Good Listener, Accepting Correction, Correcting Others, Paying Compliments, Humility, Conflict or Bullying, Literal & Figurative Language

Term 4: Play & Pretend
Being A Good Friend, Personal Boundaries, Assertive Submissive Aggressive, Sportsmanship, Growth Mindset, Friendship Circles, Including & Excluding, Being Flexible

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