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Learning objective

  • To identify individual strengths and begin to see how they can affect others.

Success criteria

  • I can describe my strengths.
  • I can explain how
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Relationships and sex

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Recap and recall

Display the Presentation: Gimme five! and ask the children to tell their partners five reasons it can be good to make mistakes.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support:

Could film or video their application; could use plain paper drawing the role they would like and write a sentence about their skills or strengths; could be provided with a completed Activity: Pupil job application as a model.

Pupils working at greater depth:

Should expand upon why their skills are most suited to the role; should present their ideas clearly and with confidence.

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Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: writing or describing their

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Vocabulary definitions

  • job

    A task or work that someone does to earn money or help others.

  • role

    The part someone plays in a group or activity.

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In this unit

Assessment - RSE & PSHE Y4: Health and wellbeing

Lesson 1: Looking after our teeth

Lesson 2: Relaxation: Visualisation

Lesson 3: Celebrating mistakes

Lesson 4: My role

Lesson 5: My happiness

Lesson 6: My emotions

Lesson 7: Mental health

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