Progressive content

Children will learn

Working together

• Demonstrate a collaborative approach to a task;

• Describe and implement the skills needed to do this.

Let's negotiate (optional)

• Explain what is meant by the terms 'negotiation' and 'compromise';

• Suggest positive strategies for negotiating and compromising within a collaborative task;

• Demonstrate positive strategies for negotiating and compromising within a collaborative task.

It's a puzzle?

• Identify strategies for keeping personal information safe online;

• Describe safe and respectful behaviours when using communication technology.

Don't do that

• Understand and describe strategies for dealing with bullying:

• Rehearse and demonstrate some of these strategies.

Solve the friendship problem

• Recognise some of the challenges that arise from friendships;

• Suggest strategies for dealing with such challenges demonstrating the need for respect and an assertive approach.

Behave yourself

• Recognise and empathise with patterns of behaviour in peer-group dynamics;

• Recognise basic emotional needs and understand that they change according to circumstance;

• Suggest strategies for dealing assertively with a situation where someone under pressure may do something they feel uncomfortable about.

Assert yourself

• List some assertive behaviours;

• Recognise peer influence and pressure;

• Demonstrate using some assertive behaviours, through role-play, to resist peer influence and pressure.

Don't force me

• Describe ways in which people show their commitment to each other;

• Know the ages at which a person can marry, depending on whether their parents agree;

• Understand that everyone has the right to be free to choose who and whether to marry.

Acting appropriately

• Recognise that some types of physical contact can produce strong negative feelings;

• Know that some inappropriate touch is also illegal.

OK to be different

• Recognise that bullying and discriminatory behaviour can result from disrespect of people's differences;

• Suggest strategies for dealing with bullying, as a bystander;

• Describe positive attributes of their peers.

We have more in common that not.

• Know that all people are unique but that we have far more in common with each other than what is different about us;

• Consider how a bystander can respond to someone being rude, offensive or bullying someone else;

• Demonstrate ways of offering support to someone who has been bullied .

Respecting differences

• Demonstrate ways of showing respect to others, using verbal and non-verbal communication.

Tolerance & respect for others

• Understand and explain the term prejudice;

• Identify and describe the different groups that make up their school/wider community/other parts of the UK;

• Describe the benefits of living in a diverse society;

• Explain the importance of mutual respect for different faiths and beliefs and how we demonstrate this.

Advertising friendships

• Explain the difference between a friend and an acquaintance;

• Describe qualities of a strong, positive friendship;

• Describe the benefits of other types of relationship (e.g. neighbour, parent/carer, relative).

Boys will be boys - challenging gender stereotypes

• Define what is meant by the term stereotype;

• Recognise how the media can sometimes reinforce gender stereotypes;

• Recognise that people fall into a wide range of what is seen as normal;

• Challenge stereotypical gender portrayals of people.