Makes someone a good friend
Understand what makes someone a good friend — being kind, honest, reliable, and including others — and recognise behaviours that are not friendly, such as being bossy, leaving people out, or saying mean things
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Name four friendship qualities and use fictional actions to distinguish friendly behaviour from exclusion.
Can follow a short fictional story; no real friendship disclosure needed.
Check activity readiness with accessible response; pause or supply prerequisite help when needed. Do not treat age range or graph position as attainment.
Open teaching first, then learner cards. Adult key stays separate. Read supplied content; do not invent a passage, scene or history image.
Show and guided material are for teaching. Put them aside before recall; any passage, word bank or model used during the check must be recorded as support. Learner givens remain available for source-reading tasks.
Only scrap paper, pencil or ordinary safe objects where the authored task explicitly uses them; oral/pointing alternatives allowed.
No account, recording, real-user data or compulsory personal disclosure.
Materials are ready in each step. Use them on screen or print just the current step. Put teaching examples aside before the learner tries.
What this lesson covers and its limits
These are bounded opportunities, not learner attainment. Partial and blocked source requirements remain so.
- partial: Understand what makes someone a good friend — being kind, honest, reliable, and including others — and recognise behaviours that are not friendly, such as being bossy, leaving people out, or saying mean things
Bounded objective and prepared task only; all examples, universal claims and real-world behaviour are not established. People can set boundaries, decline play or need help. Judge actions, not children as good or bad. Personal reflection is optional and not recorded by default.
- opportunity: List at least four qualities of a good friend
Four qualities explicitly requested.
- opportunity: Identify unfriendly behaviour in a story or real situation
Fictional story supplies an unfriendly action.
- partial: Reflect on a time they were a good friend and explain what they did
Fictional reflection is an adaptation, not the required personal incident.
- partial: Can {{name}} describe what makes a good friend and recognise when someone — including themselves — isn't being a good friend?
Prepared adapted check is not a complete equivalent to all source contexts, images or genuine independent habits. People can set boundaries, decline play or need help. Judge actions, not children as good or bad. Personal reflection is optional and not recorded by default.
People can set boundaries, decline play or need help. Judge actions, not children as good or bad. Personal reflection is optional and not recorded by default.
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Name four friendship qualities and use fictional actions to distinguish friendly behaviour from exclusion.
Name four friendship qualities and use fictional actions to distinguish friendly behaviour from exclusion.
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- List at least four qualities of a good friend
- Identify unfriendly behaviour in a story or real situation
- Reflect on a time they were a good friend and explain what they did
“Can your child describe what makes a good friend and recognise when someone — including themselves — isn't being a good friend?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Personal & Social Development
- Domain
- Friendship & Cooperation
- Age range
- Ages 5–7
Standards