Core Resource

Use this lesson to encourage the children to think about friendship. Use the activities to think about what qualities make a good friend and how being a good friend makes others feel.

Print off a hand template for each pupil. The children should work in small groups passing the hands around the table. By the end each pupil will have a hand template full of positive things about them. This is a great reminder that they are amazing in lots of different ways.

This presentation outlines what makes a good friend. Highlighting the skills and qualities you need to be a kind and loving friend. Use this presentation to deliver the friendship hands challenge as well as the friendship brainstorming.

Use this lesson to encourage the children to think about friendship. Use the activities to think about what qualities make a good friend and how being a good friend makes others feel.

Print off the Word Mat to give the children suggestions. By the end each pupil will have a hand template full of positive things about them. This is a great reminder that they are amazing in lots of different ways.

Bobby and his mum Betty find their school has been damaged by the farmers’ machinery cutting back the hedgerow. Betty is a teacher at the school and she asked Bobby to help her find a place for the new bee school. Bobby is keen to help and he thinks about the most important features for a new school. He ventures away from the hive out into the countryside to find the perfect spot – he wants to make his mum, Betty, proud. When he returns, he shares stories of his adventures with the whole hive. Bobby inspires the other bees to be determined, problem solvers and feels that the whole adventure was very rewarding.  

The Honeywood hive is rudely disturbed when a nest of bullying, noisy Hornets moves nearby and starts stealing their honey. The bees have to work together to find a solution to the problem and they work as a team to overcome the problem when it becomes noisier and noisier! Bertie finds himself injured as a result of rescuing Beebee from the nasty Hornets, so his fellow bee’s make best use of their own resources to help him feel better and fix his broken wing. The bees manage several difficult situations in this story but they eventually bring the community of bees safely home together.

The lego cards challenge the children to build a range of objects while trying to beat the clock. They need to work together as a team.