In today’s Living and Learning lesson, we talked about ‘What makes a good friend?’. This lesson builds on pupils’ learning from key stage one about special people and extends their leaning about their close networks and friendships.
We discussed these key points:
- recognise the different types of friendships that are important to us (eg: family, friends, groups we belong to, neighbours)
- explain why friendship and having friends is valuable
- identify how friends show they care for and value each other
- describe what is most important in a friendship
To read some examples of good friendships and we discussed the best friendship ideas. Taking feedback from the class, we made a list on the whiteboard of all the different qualities that make a good friendship.
Here is what we said: 