Welcome to U Can Shine the award winning personal development programme for primary school children.

Today, children are growing up in a world that is rapidly changing in complexity, scale and challenge. At such a young age children live under more scrutiny, face more pressure to succeed and achieve at school. Additionally with technological advances, social media etc children's life experiences, engaging socially with their friends/peer groups can bring both positive benefits to their learning and cause concerns too.
Children with enthusiasm for a fully rounded learning experience in school are youngsters most likely to find success in their lives.

Childhood is a precious time

Here at U Can Shine, we believe childhood is truly a wonderful and precious time. We understand, recognise and value that all have their own unique place in the world to share their gifts and talents to make it a better place for everyone to shine!!

We're passionate about making a difference and believe that to achieve anything at school or wider life, their health and overall wellbeing has to be at the heart of everything they experience and challenges they encounter.

Physical, emotional and social skill development lay at the core of everything we do at U Can Shine where inner confidence, self worth, self belief and resilience set the foundations for children to develop essential skills and dispositions they’ll require for success at school but… importantly as they grow up.

Children with the 'DNA' of inner confidence, inquisitiveness, compassion, respect, self-motivation, resilience, independence and positive attitude will have the necessary life skills to accomplish great things in their lives... 'Roots to grow... Wings to fly'

U Man's new scheme hopes to support children in improving their mental health and wellbeing by encouraging them to think of themselves as superheroes.

U Man wants to know where he's needed, so he'd love kids to download the activities below, complete them and then share them to U Can Shine's facebook page - @ucanshineuk

Prominent business man Fred Story of Story homes visited Petteril Bank Community School, Carlisle to see what primary school children had created as part of a kit car competition

Are you looking...

...at exciting ways to motivate and inspire your pupils?

...to boost your pupils self-confidence?

...to challenge your pupil's and take them out of their 'comfort zone?'

...to transform pupil motivation, raise aspirations and take their learning to a different level?

"The road show was a fantastic way to start the U Can Shine Programme.  It was energetic, uplifting, inspiring and motivational for pupils and staff.  It gave our children a real confidence boost and outlined just how important high aspirations and attitude to learning really are! The road show celebrated personal achievements of pupils through school and gave them just a taster of what is to come at The Sands Centre in the summer term.  Shaun, Jordan and Robbie were a great team and really pulled our school community together."

Sally Wright. Dept Headteacher, Valley Primary School, Whitehaven.

U Man

IMPACT ON LITERACY

"U-Man was first introduced to my class through lessons in U CAN Shine, encouraging children to use the key skills which Shaun and U CAN Shine promote. We then thought about how these skills, as well as the U-Man character could link to other areas of the curriculum, deciding the most productive way would be through the children’s Literacy work. The U-Man character helped inspire and engage my class, in particular the children who struggle with writing creatively. As a result of this the children were able to produce wonderful short stories and pieces of poetry with U-Man as their main character.  This was an exciting and enjoyable task for the children but also allowed me to assess a number of criteria on our Literacy Learning Ladder.  Very beneficial for all involved!"

Mark Graham - Year 5 teacher at St Margaret Mary Catholic Primary School.