Responding with Ability: RESPECT

A values-based wellbeing performance for Kindergarten to Year 6

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Responding with Ability: RESPECT is a music and storytelling performance designed to support children’s wellbeing, positive behaviour, and respectful relationships at school and beyond.

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Through original songs and age-appropriate stories, students explore the value of respect through four key actions: responsibility, compassion, cooperation, and tolerance. These values help children understand how respect is lived out in everyday situations — caring for themselves and others, accepting differences, working together, and taking responsibility for their choices.

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The performance builds practical life skills by encouraging students to pause, reflect, and recognise that there is always something they can do when faced with challenges. Messages are presented in a warm, engaging way that supports emotional literacy, self-regulation, empathy, and inclusion.

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WHAT STUDENTS GAIN

• A clearer understanding of respect and how it looks in action

• Practical strategies for responding to social and emotional challenges

• Increased awareness of feelings, choices, and personal responsibility

• Positive messages about belonging, fairness, and cooperation​

 

Designed for schools

• Tailored performances for K–2 (40 minutes) and Years 3–6 (1 hour)

• Content aligned with whole-school wellbeing and values programs

• Follow-up worksheet and resources provided for classroom discussion

• Suitable for public, Catholic, and independent school settings

 

Extend the learning

Teachers receive a reflection worksheet following the performance to guide classroom discussion and reinforce key messages.

 

For schools wishing to deepen the experience, selected songs from the performance are available for purchase, along with engaging video resources and classroom activity guides.

 

These materials provide extra opportunities for students to explore respect, responsibility, compassion, cooperation, and tolerance — helping embed the values into daily learning and school routines.

Lisa Brockwell