Asking for help

RSHE (PSHE)

Healthy and safe families

Being a good family member

This unit covers understanding what makes families healthy and safe, developing skills to be a supportive family member, recognising when family relationships feel unhappy or unsafe and knowing how to ask for help from trusted adults both within and outside the family.

Healthy relationships: How can I help my family?

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Physical illness or injury, medical procedures, blood.

Which word means to provide help and encouragement to others?

True - families should manage everything by themselves.

True - asking for help means a family is weak.

False - families may need support from other people sometimes.

False - only families with problems need help.

True or false: Families don't need anyone else - they can do everything alone.

ask your trusted adults in your life for help

keep it to yourself and don't tell anyone

only tell your friends who are the same age as you

wait until the feelings go away on their own

If you feel upset, worried or sad, what should you do?

If we don't receive support the first time we ask for help, we should keep {{}} until we do.

Who is a team of people who are there to help children all day, every day?

Feelings can change from day to day or even hour to hour.

Everyone should feel exactly the same way during tricky times.

What is true about our feelings during tricky times?

Which word means the actions that we take to show care and respect for others?

When everyone gets what they need, that is being ...

collecting child from school if parents busy

Match each person to something they might do to help their family.

putting their dirty clothes in the laundry

Which of these is a responsibility that children might have at home?

no adults at school can help with worries

Which of these adults at school could you talk to if you were worried about something?

Asking for help

Lesson outcome

Content guidance