Narrative unit of work based on Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo. Includes at least 10 days planning, supporting PPTs, exemplar story, story maps and chapter-by-chapter comprehension questions.
How to make friends & what is a good Friend - Primary Careers / PSHE . A fully-resourced editable PowerPoint lesson for Ks2 Students (1 hour +) which can be used by teachers to deliver a detailed workshop / session on the importance of this topic.
Learning Outcomes:
“To understand why we have friends To be able to explain how to make friends To consider how to be a good friend”
Key terms
Characteristics, Trustworthy, Empathy, Loyalty
Homework Activity
“The next time you see someone playing on their own, go over, say hi and offer to play with them. Afterwards, answer the following questions: What was the person playing Why did you want to play with them How did you feel when you approached them How did you feel after the interaction”
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Assessment Opportunity (Confidence Checker)
The lesson includes a detailed PowerPoint, variety of student facing tasks and comprehension tasks These resources have been designed to be engaging, informative and pick up and teach.
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FOR NEW 2026 RSHE GUIDANCE - coverage cited in lesson plan (included). Two-hour friendship / being a good friend and managing fall-outs PSHE / RSE lesson. Everything is editable. engaging and easy to follow, with a variety of activities, from scaffolded written tasks, clip tasks, a game, creative tasks, active tasks, case study analysis and much more. Lesson plan included.
Students will investigate what personal qualities we need to be a good friend, how to differentiate good, genuine friendship groups from toxic ones as well as how we can be a good friend online, when our friends need us most. Created for new 2026 onward RSHE guidance, taken from the EC Publishing Complete 2026 PSHE Package (available with a quick Google).
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This social story is designed to help children understand how to navigate playtime with friends on the playground. It explains that while everyone might want to play the same game at times, there will also be moments when friends prefer different activities or need a break. The story encourages children to manage their emotions and recognise that these situations don’t have to lead to frustration or upset.
Ideal for teachers, parents, and caregivers, this story promotes emotional awareness and problem-solving, helping children develop positive social interactions and enjoy their time on the playground.
What’s Inside?
Along with a 20-page social story, there’s also a shorter, adapted version with movable pictures to help engage children on each page.
Why Is This Social Story Helpful?
Social stories use a gentle and reassuring tone to teach children about social situations in a way that’s easy to understand. They are particularly useful for:
• Children who struggle to grasp social concepts.
• Learning social skills, social cues, and appropriate responses.
• Providing guidance on expectations, emotions, and problem-solving.
• Supporting autistic children who may find social interactions challenging and benefit from clear, structured explanations.
How to Use This Story Effectively
• Create a focused environment – Read the story in a quiet space with minimal distractions.
• Read it regularly – Start by reading it twice, then revisit it often to reinforce learning.
• Incorporate it into daily routines – Use the story as part of a structured schedule.
• Use it when needed – If the child struggles with apologising, read the story at relevant moments (without making it feel like a punishment).
• Encourage and praise – Keep the experience positive, reinforcing good behavior with encouragement.
Durability & Reusability
For long-term use, consider laminating and binding the pages or placing them in a display book. This allows for repeated reading and reinforcement, making the lesson more effective over time.
Here are ten questions for each chapter of Michael Morpurgo’s Friend or Foe, including two inference questions per chapter. These questions are designed to encourage comprehension, critical thinking, and engagement with the text.
These questions cover key events, character development, and themes in Friend or Foe, while the inference questions encourage deeper analysis of motivations and emotions.
This social story is designed to help children understand ADHD and how it may affect their friends. It offers a gentle, age-appropriate explanation to encourage empathy and support in friendships where one child has ADHD.
Ideal for parents, teachers, and caregivers, this story helps children build empathy and support their friends with ADHD, promoting positive and inclusive relationships.
Why Is This Social Story Helpful?
Social stories use a gentle and reassuring tone to teach children about social situations in a way that’s easy to understand. They are particularly useful for:
• Children who struggle to grasp social concepts.
• Learning social skills, social cues, and appropriate responses.
• Providing guidance on expectations, emotions, and problem-solving.
• Supporting autistic children who may find social interactions challenging and benefit from clear, structured explanations.
How to Use This Story Effectively
• Create a focused environment – Read the story in a quiet space with minimal distractions.
• Read it regularly – Start by reading it twice, then revisit it often to reinforce learning.
• Incorporate it into daily routines – Use the story as part of a structured schedule.
• Use it when needed – If the child struggles with apologising, read the story at relevant moments (without making it feel like a punishment).
• Encourage and praise – Keep the experience positive, reinforcing good behavior with encouragement.
Durability & Reusability
For long-term use, consider laminating and binding the pages or placing them in a display book. This allows for repeated reading and reinforcement, making the lesson more effective over time.
In this lesson − aligned to ACTFL standards− students will apply knowledge of vocabulary related to friends and recreational activities, demonstrate understanding of the concept of numbers as they relate to nouns, recognize the rules of forming plurals, examine places in the US with a strong Spanish-speaking influence, and also examine the global Spanish-speaking population and the many dialectal variations between regions and countries.
This printable lesson bundle includes:
• A core lesson with introduction, video and print instruction, practice exercises, a review section, recording tool for practicing punctuation, and a 5 question quiz
• Two videos that support the teaching of the vocabulary and the grammar of the lesson, one bilingual and one in Spanish
• A beginner level worksheet and advanced level quiz that complement the lesson
• An accompanying teacher guide with correct answers
*We have provided the videos embedded within the lesson PDF and also separately in (.mp4) format. Please verify that you have appropriate and updated software for viewing the videos before you purchase.
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**Making and keeping friends KS1 PSHE lesson. **
A one-hour long, very detailed, fully resourced PSHE lesson suitable for KS1. This lesson has been created for Year 2, however, the activities may also be suitable for younger KS2 children (Year 3).
In this lesson, the students will learn about making friends, including the dos and don’ts of meeting new people . We will discuss places where we can make new friendships and reflect on the bests way to let someone know that you would like to be friends with them.
The lesson includes a case study starter, a video clip with accompanying questions, a puzzle activity and a plenary task.
Created to fit the new DfE and PSHE Association statutory 2020 /21 guidelines, the lesson includes a detailed PowerPoint, all editable with accompanying tasks and worksheets.
The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. It is designed to be ‘no prep’, so you can just pick it up and use it, although it is still adaptable should you wish to.
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk
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A series of eight Whole Class Reading Powerpoints (one per chapter) of Michael Morpurgo’s WW2 tale ‘Friend or Foe’.
Vocabulary based with questions focused on the ERIC approach (Explain, Retrieve, Interpret and Choice.)
Page numbers relate to 2007 edition.
How to not give in to peer pressure from friends and others around you.**. PSHE Lesson. Editable 21 slide PowerPoint Lesson, Lesson Assessment, Student Resources, Signposting to extra support services. Bonus Mindfulness Activity and much more.
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Learning Outcomes:
To be able to explain why it is important to be confident and assertive.
To understand how to cope with peer pressure
To understand when peer pressure can go wrong and how it can make someone else feel
Some Key Terms Covered
Pressure, Coercion, friends, Banter, Bullying, self esteem, Resilience, Independence
PSHE (Assessment) Objectives
I can explain how peer pressure impacts people of all ages
I understand the best way to deal with peer pressure
I understand how I’m influenced and how my actions influence others
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☞ Most lessons include a Worksheet
☞ Assessment Opportunity (Confidence Checker)
☞ Teacher Notes (On some slides)
☞ Team project Handouts
☞ Team roles
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Targets students aiming for A or A* at IGCSE. Lots of translation tasks included, with the aim of including the same phrases a number of times to reinforce them. Includes:
- Vocab sheets x2 for Writing and one extension sheet for a very good top set (For Listening/Reading, use Core Vocabulary from Edexcel)
- Vocab test
- 2 translation tasks
- complex structure sheet (après avoir/avant de)
- short writing task
- long essay task based on IGCSE criteria and a model answer
- a model Reading Question 5 for IGCSE based on this topic.
- a verb transposition task for top sets
Simple PowerPoint for children struggling to make and keep friends. It explains how it is ok to like different things and this makes us unique and special. All supported with Widgit Symbols
The National Autistic Society Autism Helpline often receives calls from parents and carers asking about ways of promoting inclusion and interaction with peers, for their child with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
This information sheet provides a brief overview of a strategy called the Circle of Friends approach, which is used mainly in mainstream schools.
A bundle of 5 PSHE lessons for the new 2020 curriculum all with a focus on maintaining and managing friendships. Each lesson includes a detailed and well differentiated PowerPoint with accompanying worksheets, clip tasks and questions sheets, engaging consolidation activities, as well as literacy and debate tasks. Everything is editable, easy to follow and can be picked up and used without any extra work by you.
This Pack includes:
Friendships, fall outs, bullying and making up.
Respecting our peers and keeping relationships positive.
Why do people fall out? How can we manage conflict successfully with our peers and mend our relationships?
Emotional literacy, being sensitive to our friends’ emotions and knowing what is and isn’t appropriate.
How can we look out for each other? Keeping ourselves and our friends safe in the wider world.
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This 20 slide assembly looks into the reasons why it is important to choose good friends.
This assembly includes:
What is a friend
Informative video
Qualities of a friend
What impact can a friend have on us?
Personal Reflection questions
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This is an 8 day Teaching PowerPoint complete with success criteria’s and differentiated/adapted resources that leads to a long writing task - setting description of the kitchen, farm and school which is based on the book, Friend or Foe by Michael Mopurgo.
The lessons include a vocabulary starter, talk tasks and grammar based on the book and it is pitched at National Curriculum levels for Year 4, 5 and 6. See breakdown of teaching materials below.
All the lessons follow in sequence and each lesson whether comprehension or grammar builds up to the long writing task.
This set of lessons is structured based on the best pedagogical approaches to use in the classroom such as AFL questions to gather what learners already know, the use of talk partners to share learning, allowing learners to choose their own task from MILD, SPICY and HOT (this works wonders for their self-esteem) The tasks are differentiated and progressive. The PowerPoint allows you to teach and model the writing.
The learners’ can use their work from Day 1 to Day 7 and interweave it into the Long Write. Lessons include a word bank to support EAL/SEN learners and a word bank for all children for the long write.
Lesson 1: Comprehension: To raise a range of questions. (Chapter 3)
Lesson 2 : Grammar : To create expanded noun phrases ( based on setting )
Lesson 3 : Comprehension : To answer retrieval range of questions. (based on setting)
Lesson 4: Grammar/Writing : To use figurative language (similes based on setting)
Lesson 5 : Planning: To plan a setting description (kitchen, farm and school)
Lesson 6 : Composition : To write a setting description (kitchen, farm and school)
Lesson 7 : Planning : To plan a setting (new innovated setting)
Lesson 8 : Writing : To write a new setting description. (new innovated setting)
A powerpoint to explore the Parable of the Friend at Midnight and why Jesus told this parable. Drama based activities as part of our classroom based research on using drama to develop understanding of Christianity. Designed for Year 4 but should be transferable across the key stage.
Describing family members and friends, matching adjectives with English. Begins with colouring-in task to suit middle or low ability KS4 students, with progression to paragraphs and writing frame. Suitable for cover lesson. Maps to Metro 4, Module 2 or Expo Rouge/Vert, Module 1.