1. I understand my friend might have different feelings to me
Year 2 – Being the same and being different
I understand my friend might have different feelings to me  
This lesson fits into the Life Changes and Transitions strand. It focuses on recognising different types of feelings and gives opportunities to consider how others might be feeling in different situations. Children explore taking about how you’re feeling and how this can make themselves and others feel better.
© Leeds South and East CCG

2. Learning outcomes Knowledge Skills I can understand empathy
I can start to empathise with others and how they may be feeling
I can create a sentence or a series of sentences, which I could use to help someone who is being teased or bullied 2

3. How we will work together
Can you remember the ground rules we have already talked about, let’s take a minute to think about them.
Teacher notes
Read these through with the children. Hopefully the ground rules will be displayed in the classroom already. 3

4. What do we already know? Group discussion Feelings
What kind of discussions did you have?
What helped you to decide?
Why might they be feeling that way?
Is there a time when you have felt that way?
Group discussion
As a group match feelings cards to the pictures and explain how they came to the decisions they did. Reflect on the activity - What kind of discussions did they have? What helped them to decide? Were there any that were particularly difficult? Can the children suggest reasons why each of the people might be feeling that way? Can they link it to a time when they have felt that way? 4

5. Let’s get started Talk partners
Use picture as stimulus. Link to feeling left out/ falling out with your friends.
Play Conscience Alley (click hyperlink on the picture on the slide), exploring the feelings/ different viewpoints of the characters in the picture.
Instructions for how to play Conscience Alley - 5

6. Best friends Watch the video clip.
Watch the clips on the BBC website and return back to the PowerPoint to continue the lesson.
Watch video clip. Stop at (00:26) In talk partners/ as a class discuss ‘Who are your best friends?’, ‘What games do you play with them?’
Watch the video clip. 6

7. Best friends
Who are your best friends? What games do you play with them?
Why have they fallen out?
What do you think of Fatima’s suggestion?
Is it a good idea?
Can you think of a time when you fell out with your friends
Think about what happened and why
Watch video clip. Stop at (00:52), discuss why the children have fallen out. What do you think of Fatimas’s suggestion? Is it a good idea? Why? Can you think of a time when you fell out with your friends? Think about what happened and why. 7

8. Put yourself in someone else’s shoes
What did the girls disagree about?
How do you think they were feeling?
What did they need to do in order to solve their problem?
Pairs/ groups to discuss scenarios. How could they help the person in each of the scenarios? Practise using sentence starts to think about what they might say to support someone who is in each of the situations. 8

9. Put yourself in someone else’s shoes
Would you like to talk about it?
You sound really…
What can I do to help?
Sentences starters I could use…
Collect ideas as a class on speech or thought bubbles about what they could say or suggest to support someone who is experiencing teasing or bullying. Discuss: Is falling out with your friend the same as bullying? Why? Why not? Make the distinction between falling out and bullying.
How would you feel if …?
Have you thought about …? 9

10. How has our learning progressed?
Talk partners
What could you say to someone who is experiencing teasing or bulling?
Collect ideas as a class on speech bubbles/ thought bubbles about what they could say/ suggest to support someone who is experiencing teasing or bullying. Discuss: Is falling out with your friend the same as bullying? Why? Why not? Make the distinction between falling out and bullying. 10

11. Taking the learning away
Practise what you might say to someone who is being teased or bullied.
If you find yourself in a situation where your friend has been teased or bullied, support them using what we have discussed/explored during this lesson
Practise what you might say to someone who is being teased or bullied. If you find yourself in a situation where your friend has been teased or bullied, support them using what we have discussed and explored during this lesson. 11

12. Additional resources and help
Talk to your teacher or an adult in school
Talk to your Mum, Dad or someone you trust at home about how you are feeling
If you have them: – Write your worry down and post it in the class worry box – Talk to a peer mediator in your school – Write your worry down on the worry wall on the school’s website
Contact:
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Where can I go for help? 12