Apple's Friends for 7-9 year olds

Session 1 - Introductions and Agreement

To introduce children to Apple’s Friends and prepare to enthuse them.

Session 2 - Our feelings

To help children identify and talk about their own and others’ feelings, and to identify the appropriate coping techniques for difficult feelings

Session 3 - How to feel better

To practice generating and choosing solutions which can help children to cope with difficult feelings and situations, for themselves and others.

Session 4 - Complete the story: ‘Waking up’

To help children identify other people’s feelings and to generate solutions to help them.

Session 1 - Listening skills

To help children to practise how to be good listeners

Session 2 - Saying what you want to say

To strengthen children’s abilities to say what they want to say, using five simple rules.

Session 3 - Speaking in difficult situations

To give children practice in saying what they want to say in difficult situations, using the five rules

Session 4 - Complete the story: ‘Weekend plans’

To give children the opportunity to practise the skills of empathy, developing strategies for coping with difficulties, and good communication.

Session 1 - What makes a good friend?

For children to consider the qualities that are important in a friend, and understand what they want from a friendship.

Session 2 - Coping with loneliness and rejection

To improve children’s skills for coping with loneliness and rejection.

Session 3 - Problems between friends

To help children cope with problems with their friends.

Session 4 - Complete the story: ‘New neighbours’

To give children the opportunity to practise the skills of empathy and making friends.

Session 1 - Who can help me?

To help children to think about who can help them in different situations.

Session 2 - Steps to a helpful solution

To help children practise how to calm down and find ways to a helpful solution.

Session 3 - Contract against bullying/Our wishes for our class

To agree rules about bullying, and to produce a class agreement or contract.

Session 4 - Complete the story: ‘Big kids’ football’

To practise the skills of empathy, developing coping strategies, and offering and seeking help in difficult situations.

Session 1 - Change is part of life

To help children understand that changes are part of life and that we can adapt successfully to new circumstances.

Session 2 - Different types of change

To help children practise how to help themselves feel better in situations that cannot be changed.

Session 3 - Coping with loss

To help children cope with loss and to see that there are ways to make themselves – and others – feel better.

Session 4 - Complete the story: ‘Tommy’s holiday’

To help children generate coping strategies for difficult situations such as family break-up.

Session 1 - Dealing with disappointment

To help children to learn to cope with disappointment.

Session 2 - Ways to cope with worries

To give children the opportunity to express their worries and practise helping themselves and others to cope with anxiety.

Session 3 - Complete the story: ‘End of the holidays’

To give children the opportunity to practise the skills they have developed.

Session 4 - Celebrating together

To help the children reflect on what they have learned over the year and celebrate what they have learned.

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