How to be a good friend

RSHE (PSHE)

Disagreeing with friends

Healthy boundaries with friends

Making up after arguments

This unit explores understanding that friendships have ups and downs, disagreeing with friends respectfully, being a good friend, setting and respecting healthy boundaries, and making up after arguments to repair and strengthen friendships.

Healthy relationships: Are friendships ever perfect?

Depiction or discussion of distress or humiliation e.g. bullying.

Depiction or discussion of peer pressure or bullying

Depiction or discussion of violence or fighting, including threats of violence or the aftermath of violence.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

A {{}} is an agreement where all people are happy.

Good friends care for and support each other.

Compromise means everyone getting exactly what they want.

We have to 'give' a little to help everyone get something they want.

make compromises so that they can be included

ask questions about how we can support them

How can we celebrate our friends' differences?

Match the examples to whether they show being similar or different to friends.

when someone repeatedly uses mean words or actions to hurt or upset

in this context, the person who is being bullied

to happily invite someone in and make them feel comfortable

We should make others feel welcome in our class.

Adults can't help if someone is being bullied.

Match the statements with whether they are true or false.

hurting someone in the playground every day

making multiple unkind comments about how someone looks

always leaving the same person out of a game

A {{}} is an imaginary line separating what we will and won't allow.

How to be a good friend

Lesson outcome

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