My Diverse Community

#TheCompleteSeries5lessons

This scheme focuses on building strong communities and maintaining healthy relationships with them. Your class will first identify the uniqueness and celebrate the diversity of their own local communities. The following lessons focus on how children can contribute to their communities as active citizens and on the role of community groups as well as local and national government. Children will come to understand the conventions for respectful communication and will develop strategies to help them work together to make decisions and resolve conflicts as well as to recognise and challenge discrimination through the use of carefully designed scenarios.

Each of these five ready-to-teach Year 3 PSHE lessons includes an easy-to-follow plan, engaging and informative slides, and a variety of resources.

#Lesson1Celebratingmycommunity

In this first lesson, children explore the people, places, cultures and traditions that make their community special.

To apply their understanding, children are asked to get creative by designing a mural wall for their community which celebrates its diversity. Alternatively, why not reach out and invite community representatives into your classroom to discuss what they think about the benefits of living in your diverse community?

This KS2 Community lesson pack includes an easy-to-follow plan, a set of informative slides for the teaching input, and a variety of printable resources for the children's independent activities.

#Lesson2Contributingtomycommunity

This lesson uses the book 'Do Something For Someone Else' by Loll Kirby to help children understand the different ways we can contribute positively to our communities to keep them healthy and strong.

Children dive right into active citizenship by conducting a survey to determine what to improve in their school community or by planning and carrying out an activity, such as tree planting, food bank donation or litter picking.

This Community Contributions KS2 lesson pack includes everything you need for a successful PSHE lesson: a detailed plan, a set of engaging slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

#Lesson3Recognisingandchallengingdiscrimination

Here, children are introduced to a range of forms that discrimination could take in their community - both online and offline.

They are encouraged to consider how we can all take action against discrimination. Children apply their understanding by using scripts to rehearse their response to a range of carefully chosen scenarios.

This Challenging Discrimination KS2 lesson pack includes an easy-to-follow plan, a set of informative slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources.

#Lesson4ResolvingConflict

In this lesson, children learn that it is normal for communities to have disagreements from time to time. They will find out how communities come together to solve problems and make decisions - e.g. through local government or community groups.

Then, children can apply their understanding by making a decision about how to spend money to improve their local park, in a ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ style! Alternatively, children can review and reflect on their own conflict resolution skills and set targets for improvement.

This Resolving Conflict KS2 lesson pack includes everything you need for an effective PSHE lesson: an easy-to-follow plan, a set of informative slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources.

#Lesson5DebatingTopicalIssues

In this final lesson, children find out about the structure and function of the UK Parliament. They learn about representative democracy, how MPs are elected, Governments formed and Bills debated and passed into law.

Children can apply their understanding by taking part in a topical debate as to whether cities should become car-free zones. Alternatively, they can practise the conventions of arguing for and against a range of topics with their partner.

This Debating Topical Issues KS2 lesson pack includes an easy-to-follow plan, a set of informative slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources.

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Curriculum Objectives covered

• the characteristics of friendships, including mutual respect, truthfulness, trustworthiness, loyalty, kindness, generosity, trust, sharing interests and experiences and support with problems and difficulties.
• that healthy friendships are positive and welcoming towards others, and do not make others feel lonely or excluded.
• that most friendships have ups and downs, and that these can often be worked through so that the friendship is repaired or even strengthened, and that resorting to violence is never right.
• how to recognise who to trust and who not to trust, how to judge when a friendship is making them feel unhappy or uncomfortable, managing conflict, how to manage these situations and how to seek help or advice from others, if needed.

• the importance of respecting others, even when they are very different from them (for example, physically, in character, personality or backgrounds), or make different choices or have different preferences or beliefs.
• practical steps they can take in a range of different contexts to improve or support respectful relationships.
• the conventions of courtesy and manners.
• that in school and in wider society they can expect to be treated with respect by others, and that in turn they should show due respect to others, including those in positions of authority.

• that the same principles apply to online relationships as to face-to-face relationships, including the importance of respect for others online including when we are anonymous.

• what sorts of boundaries are appropriate in friendships with peers and others (including in a digital context).
• how to respond safely and appropriately to adults they may encounter (in all contexts, including online) whom they do not know.
• how to recognise and report feelings of being unsafe or feeling bad about any adult.
• how to ask for advice or help for themselves or others, and to keep trying until they are heard.
• how to report concerns or abuse, and the vocabulary and confidence needed to do so.
• where to get advice e.g. family, school and/or other sources.

• that bullying (including cyberbullying) has a negative and often lasting impact on mental wellbeing.
• where and how to seek support (including recognising the triggers for seeking support), including whom in school they should speak to if they are worried about their own or someone else’s mental wellbeing or ability to control their emotions (including issues arising online).