Lesson 2: People around me: Resolving conflict and compromising

Learn about how conflict can arise and the steps that can be taken to resolve it or prevent it by creating a resolution guide.

Learning objective

  • To resolve disputes and conflict through negotiation and compromise

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:

  • R12. To develop strategies to resolve disputes and conflict through negotiation and appropriate compromise and to give rich and constructive feedback and support to benefit others as well as themselves
  • L8. To resolve differences by looking at alternatives, seeing and respecting others’ points of view, making decisions and explaining choices

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Display the Presentation: Resolution guide on the interactive whiteboard to help develop their ideas.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should include information on how to resolve a conflict when someone has hurt someone else physically or emotionally.

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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