RELATIONSHIPS

This core theme focuses on:

  1. how to develop and maintain a variety of healthy relationships, within a range of social/cultural contexts
  1. how to recognise and manage emotions within a range of relationships
  1. how to recognise risky or negative relationships including all forms of bullying and abuse
  1. how to respond to risky or negative relationships and ask for help
  1. how to respect equality and diversity in relationships

Pupils should have the opportunity to learn:

R1. to communicate their feelings to others, to recognise how others show feelings and how to respond

R2. to recognise that their behaviour can affect other people

R3. the difference between secrets and nice surprises (that everyone will find out about eventually) and the importance of not keeping any secret that makes them feel uncomfortable, anxious or afraid

R4. to recognise what is fair and unfair, kind and unkind, what is right and wrong

R5. to share their opinions on things that matter to them and explain their views through discussions with one other person and the whole class

R6. to listen to other people and play and work cooperatively (including strategies to resolve simple arguments through negotiation)

R7. to offer constructive support and feedback to others

R8. to identify and respect the differences and similarities between people

R9. to identify their special people (family, friends, carers), what makes them special and how special people should care for one another

R10. to judge what kind of physical contact is acceptable, comfortable, unacceptable and uncomfortable and how to respond (including who to tell and how to tell them

R11. that people’s bodies and feelings can be hurt (including what makes them feel comfortable and uncomfortable)

R12. to recognise when people are being unkind either to them or others, how to respond, who to tell and what to say

R13. to recognise different types of teasing and bullying, to understand that these are wrong and unacceptable

R14. strategies to resist teasing or bullying, if they experience or witness it, whom to go to and how to get help