Most SEL programs teach children to name their feelings.
The R.O.O. Wellbeing Program teaches them what to do next.
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Built around 14 native Australian animal characters — and a clinical framework co-developed with Dr Philip Tam FRANZCP, Child Psychiatrist. This is not a framework with a mascot. It's a world children live in.
The R.O.O. Wellbeing Program was designed from the ground up around the one thing we know actually works with young children — story and character, not abstract frameworks.
Every other program gives students a framework. The R.O.O. program gives them Tradie Roo, Fitz the Cockatoo, Wally the Wombat — characters they fall in love with and return to across 14 books and 8 modules. Learning sticks because children want to revisit it.
Most SEL programs teach children to label feelings. The R.O.O. framework goes further — through "Pause Power", students learn to forecast consequences before they act. That's the skill that changes behaviour on the playground, not just in the lesson.
14 native Australian animal characters working as a construction team — embodying values Australian schools want to teach: hard work, mateship, resilience, and having a go. Built here, for children growing up here.
Every module includes a Home Dispatch — bringing the R.O.O. framework into the family. When children hear the same language at school and at home, the learning compounds. Most programs stop at the classroom door.
Courage, integrity, teamwork, respect — the Tradie Roo Toolbox of Traits runs through every module and every story. These aren't add-ons. They're the foundation the characters are built on.
8 modules. 14 books. Songs, guided reflections, student activities, and a teacher overview. Each module builds on the last. Each character reappears. The program deepens as children grow through K–3.
Three steps. Every module. Every story. Simple enough for Kindergarten. Rigorous enough for Year 3.
Students connect the story to the character's feelings and experiences — then to their own. The narrative does the heavy lifting.
Students reflect on a time they faced a similar Choice Moment — and what happened. Guided by the teacher, supported by the story.
Students practise Pause Power: "If I do this… then what might happen?" Predictive thinking, practised in a safe context.
The free resource pack contains the complete Module 1 materials — ready to open and teach.
The R.O.O. framework is grounded in evidence-based child psychiatry — not adapted from it.
Includes: Hardback storybook Race Against the Storm · Complete Module 1 resource pack · Student sticker sheets · Home Dispatch
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