Connecting with others
Recognising their own strengths, qualities and boundaries, pupils develop self-worth and confidence in expressing themselves respectfully.
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Connecting with others: What helps us feel safe and included?
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Recognise what self-respect is.
- Value their own strengths, skills and achievements.
- Build confidence by trying new things, learning from mistakes and challenging negative self-talk.
- Identify and communicate personal boundaries clearly.
- Treat others with kindness, fairness and respect.
- Recognise the qualities of good friendships and ways to support friends.
- Learn to manage minor conflicts respectfully through negotiation, compromise, and apology.
- Understand different ways families spend time together and support each other.
- Identify different types of bullying and their effects on wellbeing.
Suggested prior learning
Connecting with others: How can I build safe, kind and caring relationships with others?
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: How can I respect myself?
Lesson 2: What are personal boundaries?
Lesson 3: What makes a family?
Lesson 4: How can I be a good friend?
Lesson 5: How can we repair a friendship after a falling-out?
Lesson 6: What are the different types of bullying?
Key skills
Key skills
Key knowledge
Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
Full equipment list for the subject
Related content
Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – RSE & PSHE: What helps us feel safe and included?
Aimed at pupils, a page providing key facts and definitions from the unit 'What helps us feel safe and included?'
Vocabulary display – RSE & PSHE Y3: What helps us feel safe and included?
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'What helps us feel safe and included?'
Cross-curricular opportunities
English: Spoken language.
British values: Individual liberty; Mutual respect.