Health and Wellbeing

Using the watering can templates the children can write all the qualities they feel would make a great friend.

Use this lesson to encourage the children to think about friendship. Use the activities to think about what qualities make a good friend and how being a good friend makes others feel.

Use the mind map to think about what it means to be a good friend. Encourage the children to work in pairs or small groups to fill the whole sheet with ideas and pictures.

Use the template for the children to think about one of their friends. Encourage them to think of 3 reasons why that person is a good friend to them and how they make them feel.

Use this template to think about the top 5 qualities that make a good friend. Encourage the children to think about what is important to them. This may be different for each child - there is no right or wrong answer.

This presentation outlines what makes a good friend. Highlighting the skills and qualities you need to be a kind and loving friend. Use this presentation to deliver the friendship hands challenge as well as the friendship brainstorming.

Print off a hand template for each pupil. The children should work in small groups passing the hands around the table. By the end each pupil will have a hand template full of positive things about them. This is a great reminder that they are amazing in lots of different ways.

Use this lesson to encourage the children to think about friendship. Use the activities to think about what qualities make a good friend and how being a good friend makes others feel.