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STRAND: Myself and Others
(Theme Nov)

STRAND UNIT: My Friends and Other People
TIME: 30 mins a week plus integrated time
RESOURCES: Walk Tall, Stay Safe, R.S.E., N.W.H.B.
Content Objectives from the Curriculum Statement page 47

That the child would be enabled to…

  • Appreciate the need for and the importance of friendship and interacting with others.
  • Explore the different aspects of friendship- loyalty, respect, genuine communication, trust, keeping promises, forgiveness, resolving conflict, honesty.
  • Examine different types of friendship- same sex friendships, best friends, boy-girl friendships, groups of friends.
  • Begin to cope with disharmony in, or loss of, friendships.
  • Acknowledge that friends often circulate in groups, which can be healthy or unhealthy- inclusive, friendly, supportive, teasing, taunting, being pressured.
  • Practise and recognise the importance of care and consideration, courtesy and good manners when interacting with others.
  • Respect and show consideration for the views, beliefs and values of others- being just and fair when dealing with others, exploring the role of assumption, rumour, fact and opinion when deciding about other people.
  • Recognise, discuss and understand bullying- why people bully, the behaviour that constitutes bullying, the consequences of different typed of bullying, learning that bullying is always wrong, the role of the onlooker in a bullying situation, being threatened or bribed by a bully.
  • Explore and examine ways of dealing with bullying.

Table of recommended lessons:

Lessons to be taken from…

  1. Out and About(N.W.H.B.): Theme 2 My Special People- Friends and Others page 169- 172
  2. Stay Safe: Topic 2- Bullying page 12- 15
  3. R.S.E.: Theme 1- Myself and Others page 117- 125

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