Chris Terrell

Tooncards - examples and quotes

"Can I see some examples of how Tooncards have been used?"

This page will be updated periodically, as I get new images or useful examples that seem helpful to publish here.  Taking photographs while running sessions is both practically difficult (for me) and often inappropriate, so most of those shown here will be of the products of sessions. 

"Group Identity" "Group Identity 2"
Six teams of pupils at this school each managed their own discussion on the 'identity' of their work group on a leadership and team skills day that I ran for the school.  This involved using Tooncards to give and receive feedback about each other and selecting cards that reflected the overall character of their group - there were some very interesting discussions! [photos: Nick Jones]

consequences
Tooncards are a great visual resource to help pupils to explore links between behaviour and consequences.

uwyc 2k4

Committee Chairs from a large number of countries at the 2004 United World Youth Council, held at Radley School, used the first version of Tooncards to help overcome language barriers when discussing and agreeing Ground Rules with their committee members.  The Delegates at this event included young people from nations recently or currently in conflict. A primary aim of the event was to facilitate understanding, communication and mutual respect between young people around the world.

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"What are people saying about Tooncards?"

Reviews: "..the combination of vocabulary, drawings and suggested activities enables some sophisticated reflection, commentary and group interaction to take place" Alec Webster - Emeritus Professor of Educational Psychology, Bristol University, in TES Teacher, 17 Mar 06

Recent feedback from practitioners using Tooncards includes:

"a really useful and constructive way of encouraging young people to express themselves, in disclosing their true feelings and giving appropriate support to others" (David Hendrickse - Victor Training - Cumbria)

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" I told the children we would be using the cards again next session to think about their goals and they were very keen, they said: " The cards help you to understand better, people like to look at pictures as some new words are hard to understand and it gives you a picture in your head for next time." ... The class teacher said the children came back 'buzzing & the session had been great fun!' ." (Karen Lamb, SENCO, Stirchley Primary School)

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(from a telephone interview with Paul Beddows, Senior Youth Worker in Wolverhampton City Council)

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"The session plans were extremely helpful, especially since I had little time to devote to planning the whole session. ...The cards were well-received, so much so that the manager of the team used all those that had been allocated to the team to sum up the session at the end." (Darren Hockaday, HR Manager)

Tooncards have also been used with international groups in UK, Russia and Ukraine:

"The cards worked well and certainly open up lots of debate. ... the air was cleared on numerous issues " (Bruce Robinson - Management Training Consultant)

"Selection encompasses a wide variety of emotions and feelings which students were able to relate to ... Fantastic to use in a wide variety of games - happy faces - me and my friends - my emotions in a week and so on. Glad I took them and they went down well with the Russian facilitators. " (Frank Grant - Trainer and Therapist)

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