Progressive content

Children will learn

Our ideal classroom

• Suggest actions that will contribute positively to the life of the classroom;

• Make and undertake pledges based on those actions.

• The conventions of courtesy & manners

How are you feeling today

• Use a range of words to describe feelings;

• Recognise that people have different ways of expressing their feelings;

• Identify helpful ways of responding to other's feelings.

Bullying or Teasing?

• Define what is meant by the terms 'bullying' and 'teasing' showing an understanding of the difference between the two;

• Identify situations as to whether they are incidents of teasing or bullying.

Don't do that

• Understand and describe strategies for dealing with bullying:

• Rehearse and demonstrate some of these strategies.

Types of bullying

• Explain the difference between bullying and isolated unkind behaviour;

• Recognise that that there are different types of bullying and unkind behaviour;

• Understand that bullying and unkind behaviour are both unacceptable ways of behaving.

Being a good friend

• Recognise that friendship is a special kind of relationship;

• Identify some of the ways that good friends care for each other.

Let's all be happy

• Recognise, name and understand how to deal with feelings (e.g. anger, loneliness);

• Explain where someone could get help if they were being upset by someone else’s behaviour.

What makes us who we are?

• Identify some of the physical and non-physical differences and similarities between people;

• Know and use words and phrases that show respect for other people.

How do we make others feel?

• Recognise and explain how a person's behaviour can affect other people.

When someone is feeling left out

• Explain how it feels to be part of a group;

• Explain how it feels to be left out from a group;

• Identify groups they are part of;

• Suggest and use strategies for helping someone who is feeling left out.

An act of kindness

• Recognise and describe acts of kindness and unkindness;

• Explain how these impact on other people's feelings;

• Suggest kind words and actions they can show to others;

• Show acts of kindness to others in school.

Solve the problem

• Demonstrate active listening techniques (making eye contact, nodding head, making positive noises, not being distracted);

• Suggest strategies for dealing with a range of common situations requiring negotiation skills to help foster and maintain positive relationships.

My special people

• Identify people who are special to them;

• Explain some of the ways those people are special to them.