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Listening, empathy, boundaries and repairing mistakes.

Parents can add this optional course in Choose subjects & weekly plan. It contributes one session per week in the current course. Save the selection to update My learning and My week; move sessions to fit your family. Existing work is kept when a subject is deselected.

Year 1: four introductory lessons

• Week 1: Listen and take turns
• Week 2: Notice feelings and offer help
• Week 3: Kind words and clear boundaries
• Week 4: Put a mistake right

Read together, draw the situation or use counters and role-play. Show your answer with puppets, pointing or a drawing. A grown-up may record your own words.

Year 2: four introductory lessons

• Week 1: Listen and take turns
• Week 2: Notice feelings and offer help
• Week 3: Kind words and clear boundaries
• Week 4: Put a mistake right

Read together, draw the situation or use counters and role-play. Act out or draw your answer, then say why one action helps.

Year 3: four introductory lessons

• Week 1: Listen and take turns
• Week 2: Notice feelings and offer help
• Week 3: Kind words and clear boundaries
• Week 4: Put a mistake right

Read together, draw the situation or use counters and role-play. Give your answer in words or a drawing with labels. Explain what could happen next.

Year 4: four introductory lessons

• Week 1: Listen before solving
• Week 2: Include without making assumptions
• Week 3: Disagree and keep boundaries
• Week 4: Repair and cooperate

Read together, draw the situation or use counters and role-play. Explain your choice and how it affects the other person. Spoken answers may be recorded by a grown-up.

Year 5: four introductory lessons

• Week 1: Listen before solving
• Week 2: Include without making assumptions
• Week 3: Disagree and keep boundaries
• Week 4: Repair and cooperate

Read together, draw the situation or use counters and role-play. Show your reasoning in two steps, using a labelled sketch or short written explanation.

Year 6: four introductory lessons

• Week 1: Listen before solving
• Week 2: Include without making assumptions
• Week 3: Disagree and keep boundaries
• Week 4: Repair and cooperate

Read together, draw the situation or use counters and role-play. Explain your decision and compare it with one reasonable alternative.

Year 7: four introductory lessons

• Week 1: Listen, question and negotiate
• Week 2: Perspective, access and bystanders
• Week 3: Boundaries under pressure
• Week 4: Accountability and repair

Read together, draw the situation or use counters and role-play. State the evidence or calculation behind your answer, and identify one assumption.

Year 8: four introductory lessons

• Week 1: Listen, question and negotiate
• Week 2: Perspective, access and bystanders
• Week 3: Boundaries under pressure
• Week 4: Accountability and repair

Read together, draw the situation or use counters and role-play. Compare two possible responses or outcomes and justify your decision using the lesson.

Year 9: four introductory lessons

• Week 1: Listen, question and negotiate
• Week 2: Perspective, access and bystanders
• Week 3: Boundaries under pressure
• Week 4: Accountability and repair

Read together, draw the situation or use counters and role-play. Evaluate your decision: identify an assumption, a limitation and what new information could change your view.

More than one route to understanding

Read a clear explanation, open a worked example, break the idea into steps and try practice with feedback. Use a drawing, counters, discussion or a fictional role-play, then save your own response for parent review. Weekly and month-end checks ask learners to apply the idea in a fresh example.

Kindness includes boundaries

Practise listening, empathy, inclusion, respectful disagreement and repairing mistakes. Younger children can use puppets and spoken answers; older learners discuss pressure, privacy and accountability. Children are never asked to disclose private experiences, accept unwanted contact or manage unsafe behaviour alone. This optional practice course complements Personal Development.

Try it with your child

Explore written lessons, worked examples, practice and parent review guides. Choose the course in your child’s weekly plan and start with the first activity.

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