Lesson 3: Meaning and purpose: My role

By examining personal strengths and passions, children decide on the perfect job within the school and the skills needed to carry it out.

Learning objective

  • To identify my own strengths and begin to see how they can affect others

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:

  • H28. to identify personal strengths, skills, achievements and interests and how these contribute to a sense of self-worth

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Download classroom resources

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Have the filled out example next to them to give them ideas.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should fill out the trickier version of the job application, which requires three points for each skills within their chosen job.

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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