Maintaining friendships

RSHE (PSHE)

Building strong friendships

Repairing damaged friendships

Changing and ending friendships

This unit focuses on qualities and behaviours that contribute to strong, supportive friendships. Pupils learn how to build new friendships, repair damaged relationships, maintain healthy friendships over time and recognise when friendships need to change or end, developing practical skills.

Healthy relationships: How can I be a great friend?

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

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

putting in effort to keep a relationship healthy and working

Friends will all have different {{}}, and good friends ask what these are if they're not sure.

It can be harder to maintain friendships as we get older.

Only some people need affection and communication in a friendship.

Everyone needs friends to listen when they share how they feel.

We can only be friends with people with the same social needs as us.

Which of the following are examples of a friend being included?

Match the behaviours to whether they show someone is being a good listener.

sending the person messages online with a trusted adult’s permission

only speaking to the person when they speak to you

Which of the following are ways to help maintain a friendship?

in this context, a friendship which has been hurt

To repair friendships, we might need to take {{}} and apologise for our actions.

A friendship can be damaged by accident and on purpose.

A friendship can only be damaged if someone uses unkind words.

A misunderstanding can damage a friendship.

We can choose to end friendships if they no longer make us happy.

A friendship being damaged doesn't affect how we feel.

Match the behaviour with whether it is a green flag or a red flag in a friendship.

A friend sharing a secret about you without permission is an example of...

Which of these statements show someone maintaining a boundary?

Maintaining friendships

Lesson outcome

Content guidance