Lesson 2: What are friendships?

Developing an understanding of the characteristics and importance of good, positive friendships.

Learning objective

  • To begin to understand the importance and characteristics of positive friendships

Statutory guidance

RSE

  • Caring friendships >Pupils should know how important friendships are in making us feel happy and secure, and how people choose and make friends.
  • Caring friendships> Pupils should know the characteristics of friendships, including mutual respect, truthfulness, trustworthiness, loyalty, kindness, generosity, trust, sharing interests and experiences and support with problems and difficulties

Cross curricular: English: Spoken Language

  • consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others

Success criteria

Other links

Before the lesson

Classroom resources

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: May require additional support to read the friendships cards.

Pupils working at greater depth: Could be challenged to write down why they have chosen the order they have.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils’ understanding and progress

Vocabulary

Created by:
Kapow Primary, 
RSE & PSHE specialist
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