Healthy relationships: How can we have healthy boundaries?
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Why this why now
At Year 6, pupils are becoming more aware of personal boundaries as they prepare for secondary school and complex social dynamics. Building on previous understanding of personal safety and respect, this unit teaches how to establish and maintain healthy boundaries. This is timely as pupils face peer influence and need skills to assert boundaries confidently. By learning these concepts now, pupils develop the ability to navigate relationships safely, recognise when boundaries are crossed and seek support.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils should know from Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 that their body belongs to them and should understand the difference between appropriate and inappropriate contact.
- Pupils should be familiar with healthy friendships from earlier learning and should know that good friendships are based on mutual respect, trust and honesty.
- Pupils should understand from previous learning that everyone has the right to say no and that real friends respect each other's choices and boundaries.
- Pupils should know about trusted adults they can talk to if they feel uncomfortable about someone's behaviour or need help with relationships.
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Why this why now
At Year 6, pupils are becoming more aware of personal boundaries as they prepare for secondary school and complex social dynamics. Building on previous understanding of personal safety and respect, this unit teaches how to establish and maintain healthy boundaries. This is timely as pupils face peer influence and need skills to assert boundaries confidently. By learning these concepts now, pupils develop the ability to navigate relationships safely, recognise when boundaries are crossed and seek support.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils should know from Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 that their body belongs to them and should understand the difference between appropriate and inappropriate contact.
- Pupils should be familiar with healthy friendships from earlier learning and should know that good friendships are based on mutual respect, trust and honesty.
- Pupils should understand from previous learning that everyone has the right to say no and that real friends respect each other's choices and boundaries.
- Pupils should know about trusted adults they can talk to if they feel uncomfortable about someone's behaviour or need help with relationships.
Healthy relationships: How can we have healthy boundaries?
This unit teaches the importance of establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries in relationships. Pupils learn about being inclusive friends, respecting boundaries in friendships, resisting pressure to change boundaries and mapping their own personal boundaries across different relationships.
4 lessons in unit
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