Lesson 2: People around me: Good friends

Reflecting on the qualities that make a good friend in preparation to create a set of instructions for building positive friendships.

Learning objective

  • To understand how to form and maintain positive relationships

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:

  • R11. what constitutes a positive healthy friendship (e.g. mutual respect, trust, truthfulness, loyalty, kindness, generosity, sharing interests and experiences, support with problems and difficulties); that the same principles apply to online friendships as to face-to-face relationships
  • R17. that friendships have ups and downs; strategies to resolve disputes and reconcile differences positively and safely
  • R30. that personal behaviour can affect other people; to recognise and model respectful behaviour online

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Might need to use the Activity: How to build a friend worksheet as a scaffold.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should complete the extension activity mentioned in the main event.

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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