1. I can support my friends when they need help
Year 7 – Solving problems
I can support my friends when they need help
© Leeds South and East CCG

2. Learning outcomes Knowledge Skills
I have an awareness and understanding of the role peers can play in supporting one another including restorative approaches
I can use open questions to help a fellow student talk about a situation where they upset somebody and the impact of their behaviour 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?
Who has heard of restorative justice or practice?
Thumbs up if you have
Do you think that restorative practice means doing things to someone or with someone?
Thumbs down for to, thumbs up for with
What type of questions are these; open or closed?
The issue of doing things to for and with someone comes up later so don’t look for a definitive answer here.
Ask the following questions. Learners should look down and give a thumbs up for open questions and a thumbs down for closed questions.
Do you like chocolate?
What is your favourite food?
Have you got a pet?
Where do you live?
How do you spell your name?
Have you got a letter ‘b’ in your surname?
When do you feel happiest?
How do you feel about spiders?
Is a cucumber a fruit? 4

5. Let’s get started Restorative practice is a strategy that seeks to…
What other words mean similar things to restorative?
When do you think we use restorative justice?
When do you think we use restorative practice?
…repair relationships that have been damaged, including those damaged through bullying.
Ask learners why the picture of a mobile phone being repaired is here. Draw comparisons between rebuilding/repairing the phone and rebuilding/repairing a relationship.
Other words for restorative are healing, curing, making better
Restorative justice relates to criminal justice system restorative practice is the same principles used else where, such as in school
                                         
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6. What does it look like in practice?
Watch the video and think about what the point of this way of dealing with things is
Who benefits most?
How does it work?
Choose either video both are about 6 mins long. The first is about a mugging and is more related to the justice system the second is about friendships and bullying.
Click on the pictures to open the hyperlinks. After watching the video open a discussion in small groups to answer the questions on the PowerPoint.
You could open a discussion here about why we would want to help friends, examples of times we have been helped by friends and so on.
Source: YouTube
© Essex Youth Offending Service
Source: YouTube
© Essex Youth Offending Service 6

7. Doing to, doing for, doing with
Let’s think about the difference between…
Think of situations when someone does something for you. Give an example. Who has the power/is on charge here?
Finally think of situations where someone does something with you. Give an example. Who has the power/is in charge here?
…doing to, doing for and doing with.
Think of situations when someone does something to you. Give an example. Who has the power here/is in charge?
Restorative practice is a collaborative approach to improving situations/relationships etc. Put simply doing things with people rather than to or for them. This exercise helps learners understand the concept of collaboration and when it is appropriate. Here are some examples you could use. If pupils are confident with the concept you could move on to thinking about how they might feel in each situation.
The power is shared in the final example and so is the responsibility.
Making a child hold your hand when crossing the road is doing to. The parent is in charge.
Making a cake for someone else is a kind gesture and is a doing for. The person making the cake has the power to decide what cake to make and when but they are also responsible for how nice the cake is. Making a cake together would be a different proposition, involving negotiation and sharing.
Going into town with a friend is a doing with. There would need to agreement on when, which shops to go to etc but the pleasure and responsibility would be shared. 7

8. Who has the power here? 8

9. Open questions open doors
Closed questions can be answered very briefly…
They ask the respondent to think and reflect
They prompt opinions and feelings
They hand control of the conversation to the respondent
…and often with a yes/no. Open questions start with the who, what, where, when & how words. They are effective in a restorative approach because:
Hand out the restorative practice questions. Ask what type of questions they are 9

10. Open questions game In small groups
The others then ask open questions to find out more. If you ask a closed question you are ‘out’. The winner each time is the last person left in.
Take it in turns for one of you to start to talk to the others about something you have done (keep it light!). 10

11. Pairs work: open questions
Individually think of a time when you have upset someone/hurt their feelings that you are happy to talk about
In pairs A tells B a little about the situation
B asks open questions to help both A and B understand the situation better. See how long you can keep going for.
Swap over
Ask learners to pair up and complete the practice. Get them to notice what happens when they ask closed questions. If time allows take some feedback on the impact of different questions. 11

12. How has our learning progressed?
Who has heard of restorative justice or practice?
Thumbs up if you have
Do you think that restorative practice means doing things to someone or with someone?
Thumbs down for to, thumbs up for with
What type of questions are these; open or closed?
The issue of doing things to for and with someone comes up later so don’t look for a definitive answer here.
Ask the following questions. Learners should look down and give a thumbs up for open questions and a thumbs down for closed questions.
Do you like chocolate?
What is your favourite food?
Have you got a pet?
Where do you live?
How do you spell your name?
Have you got a letter ‘b’ in your surname?
When do you feel happiest?
How do you feel about spiders?
Is a cucumber a fruit? 12

13. Taking the learning away
Next time you are in a difficult situation where you think you may have been responsible for upsetting someone or where you are upset ask yourselves the questions on the restorative practice sheet.
Hand out the RP question sheets 13

14. Want to know more or get help?
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