Lesson 3: Meaning and purpose: Steps to success

Children identify their strengths and areas they would like to develop, creating goals to help them achieve these.

Learning objective

  • To understand their strengths and set themselves achievable goals

National curriculum

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

The PSHE Association Programme of Study recommends pupils are taught:

  • H23. to identify what they are good at, what they like and dislike
  • H24. how to manage when finding things difficult

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Download classroom resources

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Might need help in recognising their strengths and so could benefit from an adult or peer giving them examples of when they have shown a skill. It could be helpful to provide the children with examples of how to break down a skill into smaller, achievable goals.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should be able to explain how they will reach their goal in greater detail, explaining when, where and how they will develop this new skill.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

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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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