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Me and My Relationships

What you can talk about together

Explain that we are all different - sometimes we like the same things as each other and sometimes different things. This makes us special.

  • What makes us the same?
  • What makes us different?
  • Who's in your family?
  • How are our families the same?
  • How are our families different?
  • When was the last time you hurt yourself?
  • How did you feel?
  • Is it just our bodies that get hurt?  [feelings can be hurt]
  • Think of a time when your feelings were hurt. How did this make you feel?
  • Talk about feelings being comfortable/uncomfortable rather than good/bad
  • Can you put a plaster on a hurt feeling?
  • What can you do to heal that hurt feeling?
  • Can you help a friend who is feeling sad?
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Note to parents/carers: take care to frame ideas in positive language. For example, if a child says ‘Don’t be mean to your friends,’ acknowledge and praise this response and re-word it into something like ‘… be kind to your friends.’

What you can do together

A recipe for friendship

What are the ‘ingredients’ that make a good friendship? Discuss with your child what is important in a friendship. Write your ideas down - recipe style!

  • Share
  • Take turns
  • Be kind
  • Don't leave people out
  • Look out for someone who's feeling lonely
  • Play together

Sometimes we can fall out with friends so you could think of another recipe – a recipe for making up.

  • Say sorry
  • Shake hands
  • Have a hug
  • Invite someone to join in (a game or a conversation)
  • Do something special to show you really want to be their friend again

Write and draw about your friends on Harold the giraffe's special activity sheet (See resources below)

 

Sad and happy

How would you feel if:

  • You were going to party?
  • You were at a party but nobody wanted to play with you?
  • Some of your friends were going to a party but you weren't invited?
  • Somebody called you a nasty name?
  • Somebody said something nice about you?

Look at photos in a book or magazine and see if you can work out how people are feeling. How can you tell?

Summarise by saying that we can show our feelings even without speaking and that others can tell how someone is feeling by looking at their face or body. 

Explain that this is sometimes called body language.  Being able to ‘read’ a person’s body language is a useful skill as it helps us to understand how they are feeling and respond to them in a suitable way.

Use magazine cuttings or photos and stick them to a piece of paper. Use as many words as you can to describe how the people of the photos are feeling, e.g. happy, overjoyed, elated, smiley, fantastic…

Or you could make this feelings mask

 

My special people

Families come in many different forms. Families are made up of people who are special to us.

  • Who are our special people?
  • What do our special people do to make us feel special?
  • Who are the special people outside our family?
  • What groups do we belong to (friendship groups, place of worship etc.)

Draw a picture of a large balloon on a piece of paper. Make the balloon big enough to fill the paper. Then draw and/or write your special people in it. 

 

Something special

Begin with some questions that focus on things that are important to your child: 

Tell us about your special object:

  • A favourite book
  • A favourite activity
  • A favourite place

Why is it important to you? You could share your favourite item with your child. Maybe something you’ve had since a child. Talk about why it is important to you.

You could make a treasure box to keep your favourite things.

 

Who's in the mirror?

Look in a mirror together and notice eye colour, hair colour, and other features. Smile, make faces and play. Perhaps your child would like to draw a self-portrait in the mirror below, with (or without) your help - let the child choose. Or you may decide to stick a favourite photo in the mirror space. Learn the rhyme together.

look in the mirror and who do I see? Me, me, me! I see me! (Write the name of your child on the dotted lines. Other family members can take a turn to say the rhyme using their own names) My name is ............................................ I am ............................. And ................................................ is who I see.

 

Who can help me?

Children draw around their hand which should be pressed palm down onto a piece of paper, fingers and thumb spread out. 

In or around the five digits, draw the faces of 5 people they can turn to for help at home or at school.

With adult help, children can draw or write more information, as appropriate.

Resources

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