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Lesson 2: What are friendships?

Developing an understanding of the characteristics and importance of good, respectful, positive friendships.
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1. Recap and recall

Show the Presentation: Brain dump and ask the children to write everything they can remember about families on their whiteboards.

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In this unit

Assessment – RSE & PSHE Y1: Families and relationshipsLesson 1: What is family?
Lesson 2: What are friendships?
Lesson 3: Recognising other people’s emotionsLesson 4: Working with othersLesson 5: Friendship problemsLesson 6: Healthy friendshipsLesson 7: Gender stereotypes
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