In this teaching resource, the characters Captain Yet and Pirate Nup have an important friendship. Pirate Nup often finds himself feeling helpless to the challenges of learning. Captain Yet is a fantastic friend and has a way to help Pirate Nup see that challenges will often have solutions, they just may take time. The purpose of Captain Yet is to help students use a growth mindset approach to see that there are solutions to learning challenges and how to find these using an independent and resourceful strategies.

Use this poster to display in the classroom, or use as a desk plate for easy student referencing. You can use this at the beginning of the year to help prompt positive vocabulary starters or classroom values, or integrate them with the learning values your school has already established.

This teaching resource is a poster which helps students focus on positive learning.

Vocabulary includes:

• problem solving
• resourcefulness
• optimism
• grit
• independence
• persistence