Other People's Feelings and Thoughts
Understand that other people have their own feelings and thoughts, and that these might be different from your own — a foundational awareness that not everyone sees or feels things the same way
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Recognise two different views of one event and suggest a response that respects both.
Understands that a character's words provide evidence about that character, not everyone.
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 that other people have their own feelings and thoughts, and that these might be different from your own — a foundational awareness that not everyone sees or feels things the same way
Bounded objective and prepared task only; all examples, universal claims and real-world behaviour are not established. Fictional acceptance is not proof of a real social habit or a learner's internal empathy. No personal examples required.
- opportunity: State that other people can feel differently about the same thing
Task explicitly contrasts views of one activity.
- partial: Give an example of a time someone felt differently from them about the same situation
Fictional event replaces a personal comparison.
- partial: Accept another child's feeling as valid even when it differs from their own
Response is hypothetical, not an observed real peer interaction.
- partial: If {{name}} loves dogs but their friend is scared of dogs, can {{name}} understand that their friend's fear is real even though they don't feel it themselves?
Prepared adapted check is not a complete equivalent to all source contexts, images or genuine independent habits. Fictional acceptance is not proof of a real social habit or a learner's internal empathy. No personal examples required.
Fictional acceptance is not proof of a real social habit or a learner's internal empathy. No personal examples required.
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Recognise two different views of one event and suggest a response that respects both.
Recognise two different views of one event and suggest a response that respects both.
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Check understanding
- State that other people can feel differently about the same thing
- Give an example of a time someone felt differently from them about the same situation
- Accept another child's feeling as valid even when it differs from their own
“If your child loves dogs but their friend is scared of dogs, can your child understand that their friend's fear is real even though they don't feel it themselves?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Personal & Social Development
- Domain
- Empathy & Social Awareness
- Age range
- Ages 5–7
Standards