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Healthy relationships: How can I build good relationships?

This unit explores the characteristics of healthy friendships and strategies for making new friends. Pupils understand why friendships are important for wellbeing, learn how friendships change over time, and develop practical skills for managing friendship transitions respectfully.

This is an attributed Oak National Academy lesson sequence, not a completed or academically approved DASKEREL course. Supporting transcripts may depend on video, images, practical equipment or teacher explanation. Follow each lesson’s supervision guidance. For religious education and RSHE, follow the school’s syllabus, policy and safeguarding procedures.

Prior knowledge

  • Pupils should understand basic concepts of kindness and fairness in relationships from Key Stage 2, recognising that treating others well is important for maintaining friendships.
  • Pupils should be familiar with identifying their own feelings and understanding that disagreements with friends are normal and can be resolved through communication.
  • Pupils should have experience of working cooperatively with others in primary school and understand that different people have different interests, personalities and communication styles.

Source curriculum references

  • The characteristics of positive relationships of all kinds, online and offline, including romantic relationships.
  • Pupils should understand the role of consent, trust, mutual respect, honesty, kindness, loyalty, shared interests and outlooks, generosity, boundaries, tolerance and privacy in relationships.
  • Pupils should be taught about the management of conflict, reconciliation and ending relationships.
  • The importance of developing one’s own interests, hobbies, friendship groups, and skills.
  • The practical steps pupils can take and skills they can develop to support respectful and kind relationships.
  • Skills for communicating respectfully within relationships and with strangers, including in situations of conflict.
  • Skills for ending relationships or friendships with kindness and managing the difficult feelings that endings might bring, including disappointment, hurt or frustration.
  • That happiness is linked to being connected to others.

Oak source metadata. DASKEREL has not independently verified school-level coverage.

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