Friendships & kindness ages 9-12

Friendship & Kindness

Friendships play an important role in children’s emotional wellbeing. In this educational wellbeing session, children explore what healthy friendships look like, how kindness helps relationships grow, and how positive friendship skills can help them navigate challenges and disagreements.

Children learn that friendships are not always perfect and that disagreements, misunderstandings and friendship wobbles can happen. Through discussion and activities, they discover practical ways to communicate kindly, solve problems respectfully, include others and ask for support when needed.

This session helps children learn to:

✔ Understand what healthy friendships look like

✔ Recognise qualities that help friendships grow, including kindness, honesty, listening and respect

✔ Understand that friendships can sometimes experience disagreements and misunderstandings

✔ Learn healthy ways to manage friendship difficulties

✔ Explore the importance of communication and problem-solving

✔ Understand the value of inclusion and respecting differences

✔ Recognise healthy and unhealthy friendship behaviours

✔ Learn when it is important to ask a trusted adult for help

✔ Develop positive friendship and relationship skills

✔ Create a personalised Friendship Calm Bracelet to help remember healthy friendship choices and calming strategies

This session also includes:

✔ Pre-recorded lesson

✔ Printable worksheets and activities

✔ Parent overview

✔ Simple calming and friendship-building techniques

✔ Information about mindfulness and how it can support emotional regulation, communication and wellbeing

Recommended for children aged 9–12 years.

Looking for the complete programme?

This session is Week 5 of the Spark & Settle 6-Week Children’s Wellbeing Programme. The full programme is also available as a separate purchase and includes all 6 sessions.

Please note:

This is an educational wellbeing session designed to teach emotional awareness, confidence, resilience and self-regulation skills. It is not therapy, counselling or a mental health treatment service.