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First News is the award-winning weekly newspaper for children. Every week, the specialist First News journalists provide up-to-date, insightful and dynamic articles on a range of subjects from politics to popular culture, from science to citizenship.
From reluctant readers to high achievers, with our resources we make reading exciting, relevant and fun for thousands of pupils across the world. Our reading activities use current event to make literacy relevant and exciting in the classroom.
Check out this specially-created lesson plan all about exploring the characteristics of a good friend, and help children make the most of their peer group.
In this lesson, the activities encourage children to recognise what makes a good friend and to realise when a friendship may not be beneficial. Children will also be given the tools to celebrate people’s differences and similarities, and discuss how to make new friends. Help equip your pupils with some valuable life skills by using this resource in your classroom.
These relationship lessons will help families cope with daily pressures, and schools deliver teaching on relationships and physical and mental health.
The new teaching pack is being released during Family Action’s 150th anniversary year, which it is marking with a campaign to get people talking about the everyday pressures on families. Family Action’s research shows that relationships and health were two of the top five pressures adults said were common in their close family.
The Family Action Schools’ Pack is designed for use with upper KS2 pupils (Years 5 and 6), but can be used with younger pupils at a school’s discretion. It consists of the following content:
An introductory assembly with accompanying PDF slides (this can be used across KS2)
A follow-up history lesson using original source materials to examine aspects of Victorian family life, and to draw parallels with pressures on family life today
Three follow-up PSHE lessons examining family diversity, exploring family relationships and the pressures that can impact on these, and developing healthy ways in which to manage feelings and behaviour and maintain happy and healthy family relationships
