Year 6: Family and relationships
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Y6 Family and relationships
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Understand that everyone can expect a level of respect but this can be lost.
- Understand what respect is and how they should be respected.
- Understand how stereotypes influence our ideas and opinions.
- Understand a range of stereotypes and share this information effectively.
- Create a resolution guide that includes strategies to manage conflicts and describes situations where conflict is likely to arise.
- Understand the term grief and describe some of the associated emotions.
Suggested prior learning
Y5 Families and relationships
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Respect
- To understand what we mean by respect and why it is important .
Lesson 2: Respectful relationships
- To understand that respect is two-way and how we treat others is how we can expect to be treated.
Lesson 3: Stereotypes: Attitudes
- To explore other people’s attitudes and ideas and to begin to challenge these.
Lesson 4: Challenging stereotypes
- To understand stereotypes and be able to share information on them.
Lesson 5: Resolving conflict
- To resolve disputes and conflict through negotiation and compromise.
Lesson 6: Change and loss
- To begin to understand the process and emotions relating to grief.
Key skills
Key knowledge
Related content
Resources
Unit resources
RSE & PSHE
Knowledge organiser: RSE & PSHE – Y6 Family and relationships
A pupil-facing summary document, capturing the key facts and definitions from the Year 6 Family and relationships unit.
Other
Videos: Families and relationships
A collection of unit-specific Q&A videos with RSE & PSHE Consultants to support the teaching of the families and relationships…
RSE & PSHE
Key vocabulary display: Year 6 Families and relationships
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Year 6 Families and relationships unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
English
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates
- plan their writing by:
- identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own
- draft and write by:
- using further organisational and presentational devices to structure text and to guide the reader
- maintain positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read by:
- continuing to read and discuss an increasingly wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks’.
See National curriculum - English key stages 1 to 2.
British values: Mutual respect.