UKS2 - Shared Responsibilities

These interactive outdoor lessons help children explore rules, rights, compassion, and responsibilities through hands-on activities. By role-play, problem-solving, discussions, and data collection, pupils develop teamwork, empathy, and practical understanding of how to care for each other and their environment.

Lesson Plans

Recognising reasons for rules and laws

Get your children moving in this outdoor lesson by sorting through a mixture of British rules and laws in an active way. Your children will learn more about consequences by taking part in creative role-play based in your outdoor space.

Learning objective:

To recognise reasons for rules and laws; consequences of not adhering to rules and laws

Understanding human rights

During this outdoor lesson, children will use natural resources to demonstrate their views on children’s rights. In combination with that, they’ll also need to ensure they listen to one another so they can both work as a team and debate with others.

Learning objective:

To recognise there are human rights there to protect everyone

Understanding the relationship between rights and responsibilities

Develop your children’s creative thinking with this outdoor lesson based on responsibilities. Children will explore your outdoor space to begin their learning and take part in discussions around what they find, finally coming together as a class to decide on how shared responsibilities can be taken care of.

Learning objective:

To understand the relationship between rights and responsibilities

Exploring the importance of compassion

The main activity of this outdoor lesson challenges your children to work together to solve a problem involving wildlife that requires compassion. They’ll need to think practically in order to provide a suitable solution and link this to the importance of showing compassion to others.

Learning objective:

To understand the importance of having compassion towards others, shared responsibilities and caring for other people

Considering ways to carry out shared responsibilities

During this outdoor lesson, children take a walk around your school grounds collecting data about which areas need protecting and how they might do that. They’ll have the opportunity to talk about the shared responsibilities that exist around the space and then work together to discuss how to achieve that.

Learning objective:

To consider ways to carry out shared responsibilities for protecting the environment at school and home

Before you get started

Safety and suistanability is super important!