Maintaining friendships
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can describe how to maintain good friendships during difficult times.
Key learning points
- Some life events, such as moving schools, make maintaining friendships hard.
- It can be harder to find the time and energy to maintain friendships, especially as we get older.
- We all need things from our friends, such as affection and listening when we share our feelings.
- Friends will all have different needs, and good friends ask what their friends need if they’re not sure.
- We need to make an effort to include people when we want to maintain a friendship.
Keywords
Friendship - a relationship between friends, built on trust and care
Maintain - in this context, putting in effort to keep a relationship healthy and working
Effort - to work hard at something
Needs - the things we want to have for us to feel happy and comfortable
Common misconception
Friends all have the same needs.
We all have different social needs, which means that we enjoy spending time with friends in different ways and for different amounts of time. Some people need more time alone, or need time to reflect after spending time with friends.
Teacher tip
Consider the life events of pupils in your class. Perhaps they have recently moved to your school, or are about to depart? Perhaps they are already thinking about the transition to secondary school? Be sensitive to the emotions that may come up during this session.
Content guidance
Depiction or discussion of sensitive content
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the words with the definition.
an agreement where all people are happy
in this context, a friendship which has been hurt
to fix something
Q2.To repair friendships, we might need to take and apologise for our actions.
Q3.Which of these statements are true?
Q4.Match the behaviour with whether it is a green flag or a red flag in a friendship.
green flag
red flag
red flag
green flag
Q5.A friend sharing a secret about you without permission is an example of...
Q6.Which of these statements show someone maintaining a boundary?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the words with their definition.
a relationship between friends, built on trust and care
putting in effort to keep a relationship healthy and working
to work hard at something
Q2.Friends will all have different , and good friends ask what these are if they're not sure.
Q3.Which of these statements are true?
Q4.Which of the following are examples of a friend being included?
Q5.Match the behaviours to whether they show someone is being a good listener.
not a good listener
good listener
good listener
not a good listener
good listener
Q6.Which of the following are ways to help maintain a friendship?
To help you plan your 5 RSHE (PSHE) lesson on: Maintaining friendships, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your 5 RSHE (PSHE) lesson on: Maintaining friendships, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
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