PSHE Lesson Plans
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Date
Lesson
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Background information
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pupils
Sub-group information
Additional Needs/Issues to consider/Data
SEN Behaviour
SEN Learning
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LAC
G&T
EAL
Prior Learning/Context for Learning
Prior
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Pupil
Context
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Topic Context
Topic Title
Sex and Relationships
Education
Lesson
Title
The Importance of Friendship
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Any barriers to learning in the previous
lesson:
How I am going to address these this lesson:
Lesson Plan
Differentiated Learning Objectives:
Pupils will
KNOW about some of the qualities found in a good friend
CAN explain why friendship is important
UNDERSTAND that sometimes we can feel conflicting emotions about our friends
Resources required:
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Friendship quiz and answers
Circle of friends sheets
Friendship card sort activity
Post-it notes
PowerPoint presentation
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Timing:
Starter
Activity
Differentiation
Sign post for Progress
(To maximise quality of learning and progress)
Reference to target
groups
(FSM/LAC/SEN/G&T)
(When is progress going to
be assessed and how. What
alternative activities are
planned if pupils do not
understand)
Show slide with the word for ‘friend’ in different languages. Ask
students to see if they can identify the focus for the lesson.
5 mins
Watch the short film clip from the TV show ‘Friends’, where Rachel
serves her friends a revolting dessert and because of their loyalty to
her, they all eat it and pretend to enjoy it.
Ask the group what messages they can take from the film clip and
how their ideas might be linked with the lesson.
Explain the lesson objectives and recap and agree on ground rules.
Explain that the group should not share personal information and
refer to the school’s confidentiality policy.
Main
20 mins
Ask students to work on their own to complete the fun friendship quiz.
Share the ‘answers’ with the group and encourage students to reflect
on the type of friend that they are.
Explain that we all have interactions or ‘relationships’ with others.
Inevitably, some of these relationships will be closer. Distribute the
‘circle of friends’ sheets and encourage students to reflect on who
they are closest too, following the instruction on the slide:
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In the circles, list all your friends
In the closest circle to the centre put your closest friends
Work your way outwards with other friends, people in your
class you get on with, to acquaintances
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15 mins
Watch the BBC film clip showing Eli’s story. Eli has recently started at
secondary school and is torn between his old friend Joe and the new
friends he has made. Use the prompt questions to have a whole-class
discussion about the issues that the film raises:
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15 mins
Discuss – how have your friendships changed since you have
started at secondary school?
Has this been easy or hard?
How do you think Eli feels?
What about Joe?
Has anything like this happened to you?
How can you deal with this in a positive way?
Is it OK to change friends?
How can this be done sensitively?
Where can you seek help if you feel upset about friendship
problems?
Ask students to work in small groups and quickly complete the card
sort activity. Students need to sort the cards into two groups –
qualities of a good friend and qualities of a bad friend.
Give each student a post-it and ask him or her to spend a few
minutes privately reflecting on his or her own friendships. They should
choose one friend to focus on and then put his/her name on the postit, together with a sentence explaining why he/she is special and such
a good friend.
Ask each member of the group to come up to the front of the class
with their own post-it and share with the group the name of their friend
and the reason why he/she was chosen. These post-its can be used
to make a whole-class display celebrating the importance of
friendship.
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Plenary
5 mins
Bring the class back together for a closing circle on friendship: ‘one
thing I do to be a good friend is…’ or ‘One thing I’m going to work on
is…’
Homework/Independent Learning:
Ensure that everyone understands what a mindmap is and how one can be constructed. Encourage all students to complete their own
mindmaps, using the prompt questions to help:
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What qualities do you look for in a friend?
Are friends more important to you now than they were in primary school? Why?
What's the difference between a friend and an acquaintance?
How do you tell the difference between true friends and false friends?
What is a "best friend?" Is it possible to have more than one "best friend" at the same time?
In what ways does friendship change as you get older?
Is there a difference between popularity and friendship? Can you be popular and not be a good friend? What is more important, being
popular, or being a good friend?
Describe the groups or cliques that people you know associate with. Are the relationships within these groups real friendships?
What's the difference between friendship and group membership?
Opportunities in this lesson to develop:
Social, Moral, Words for ‘friend’ in other languages
Cultural and Understanding the role of friendship in society and the different relationships that we have with one another.
spiritual
Literacy
Reading skills
Numeracy
N/A
Other Skills Groupwork, discussion, empathy
acquired