Lesson 2: People around me: Special people

Children identify the special people in their lives and explore how people's actions can demonstrate how they are feeling and the appropriate ways to respond and interact with them.

Learning objectives

  • To recognise how others show feelings and how to respond to these
  • To identify their special people and how they should care for one another

National curriculum

Schools should make provision for personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE), drawing on good practice.

The PSHE Association Programme of Study advises that pupils are taught:

  • R2. to identify the people who love and care for them and what they do to help them feel cared for
  • H19. to recognise when they need help with feelings; that it is important to ask for help with feelings; and how to ask for it
  • H16. about ways of sharing feelings; a range of words to describe feelings
  • H14. how to recognise what others might be feeling
  • H33. about the people whose job it is to help keep us safe
  • H36. how to get help in an emergency (how to dial 999 and what to say)

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Download classroom resources

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Might need extra examples of each scenario.

It may be useful to create a comic strip conversation using the link: 'Comic strip conversation- Autism Organisation' about one of the scenarios to embed the idea that other people can think and feel differently to us.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should suggest a range of different ways of responding to someone who seems upset, angry, worried.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

Created by:
Elaine Bousfield,  
Wellbeing specialist
Elaine worked for many years as a therapist with young people. She is the founder and chair of XenZone and its children and young people’s counselling service, kooth.com. Kooth delivers an online counselling and therapy service. It is also an online community…
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