Lesson 2: People around me: A positive difference

Considering their impact on the world around them, pupils explore how to help make other people happy and the results of doing this.

Learning objective

  • To understand that my behaviours can have an impact on others

National curriculum

All schools should make provision for personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE), drawing on good practice.

The PSHE Association Programme of Study recommends pupils are taught:

  • H20. strategies to respond to feelings, including intense or conflicting feelings; how to manage and respond to feelings appropriately and proportionately in different situations
  • R30. that personal behaviour can affect other people; to recognise and model respectful behaviour online

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Download classroom resources

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Might need extra time and prompting questions to help them think of ways of making the people around them happy.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should think of several different things they could do to make other people happy. Should think of actions that would have a positive impact on more than one person.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

Created by:
Elaine Bousfield,  
Wellbeing specialist
Elaine worked for many years as a therapist with young people. She is the founder and chair of XenZone and its children and young people’s counselling service, kooth.com. Kooth delivers an online counselling and therapy service. It is also an online community…
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