HS - Core Resources

Children think about the importance of friendship. They are tasked to design and make a photo frame ready to wrap for a person in the class to choose and keep.

Show the PowerPoint with examples of photo frame designs and discuss ideas and possible materials that could be used.

In small mixed ability groups children will be tasked with the challenge of reading some friendship scenarios and discussing possible solutions to the problems giving ideas where they might have done something different to show what it is to be a good friend.

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.