LKS2 Friendships

Take your PSHE learning outdoors with this hands-on unit that helps your LKS2 pupils explore healthy friendships, empathy, inclusion and the differences between online and face-to-face relationships. Through collaborative challenges, nature-based activities and thoughtful problem-solving, children develop the communication, emotional literacy and critical-thinking skills they need to build positive relationships and recognise the impact of their actions on others.

Lesson Plans

Knowing what attributes form healthy relationships

This engaging outdoor lesson invites your pupils to explore the core attributes that define positive, healthy friendships through collaborative, hands-on learning. Pupils will develop vital communication and emotional literacy skills as they analyze key relationship qualities and discover how these principles apply to both face-to-face and online connections.

Learning objective:

To know what attributes form a healthy friendship.

Understanding how to help others feel included

This hands-on outdoor lesson helps your pupils to recognise when others feel left out and how to actively practise supportive behaviors in these situations. Through collaborative problem-solving, pupils develop empathy, communication, and relationship-building skills that foster a welcoming community both inside and outside your classroom.

Learning objective:

To understand how to help others feel included.

Recognising what it means to know someone online

During this outdoor lesson, through interactive, nature-based learning, your pupils will build essential critical thinking and communication skills to safely navigate the differences between digital interactions and real-life connections.

Learning objective:

To recognise what it means to ‘know someone online’.

Understanding the impact of bullying

Through immersive, nature-based exploration, this impactful outdoor lesson equips your pupils with essential emotional literacy and builds vital communication and critical thinking skills so they have an understanding of the deep consequences of hurtful behavior both offline and online.

Learning objective:

To understand the impact of bullying.

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