Social Stories

Build confidence, friendship skills, emotional regulation and kindness with 6 child-friendly social-emotional stories designed for primary-aged learners.

This Social & Emotional Learning Story Bundle contains 6 engaging PowerPoint resources designed to help children navigate common friendship, confidence and behaviour challenges in a positive, accessible way. Each presentation uses relatable characters and everyday situations to open meaningful conversations about being yourself, managing big feelings, communicating calmly, making friends, kindness and positive choices.

The bundle includes:

I Am Me, and That’s Wonderful – Sami learns that being different is something to celebrate and that he does not need to change himself to fit in.
My Friend Sat With Someone Else Today – explores friendship worries, strong emotions and overthinking. Children learn to breathe, name the feeling, separate facts from guesses and choose calm words.
Real Friends Like the Real Me – Sara discovers that pretending to enjoy something just to fit in can be tiring, and that authentic friendships allow us to be ourselves.
Talking It Out – teaches practical conflict-resolution skills including breathing, expressing feelings calmly, listening and finding solutions together.
The Ripple Effect – helps children understand how their choices affect others and how simple acts such as smiling, helping, including and listening can create positive “ripples.”
Your Turn to Shine! / The Right Kind of Spotlight – supports children who seek attention by helping them recognise positive ways to be noticed through kindness, helping others, listening and making respectful choices.

The presentations also include discussion questions, reflection prompts, memorable key messages and practical strategies, making them suitable for whole-class teaching as well as targeted pastoral or small-group support.

Ideal for SEL, PSHE, wellbeing lessons, friendship interventions, behaviour support, emotional regulation, school counselling, pastoral care, circle time, calm corners and primary/elementary classrooms.

Included files: 6 PowerPoint (.pptx) presentations.

Keywords: SEL stories, social emotional learning, friendship activities, friendship problems, emotional regulation, managing big feelings, self-esteem, confidence, being yourself, kindness, conflict resolution, calm communication, coping skills, social skills, behaviour support, PSHE, wellbeing, primary school, elementary school, pastoral support, friendship intervention.