Module Two: Created to Love Others explores the individual’s relationship with others. Building on the understanding that we have been created out of love and for love, this Module explores how we take this calling into our family, friendships and relationships, and teaches strategies for developing healthy relationships and keeping safe.

This religious understanding is then applied to real-world situations relevant to the age and stage of the children:

Early Years Foundation Stage

In the Unit ‘Personal Relationships’, children will expand their vocabulary by applying
names to different family/friend relationships, consider positive/negative behaviour in relationships and learn to look to Jesus as their role model for a good friend. They will learn to
resolve conflict and the importance of asking for forgiveness when necessary.

In the Unit ‘Keeping Safe’, children learn about practical ways to stay safe inside and out, including medicine safety and people who help us in emergencies (a session that can be linked to the ‘People Who Help Us’ topic in EYFS).

Key Stage One

In the Unit ‘Personal Relationships’, children are taught to identify the Special People in their lives who they love and can trust, how to cope with various social situations and dilemmas, and the importance of saying sorry and forgiveness within relationships.

In the Unit ‘Keeping Safe’, we explore the risks of being online by incorporating the ‘Smartie the Penguin’ resources from Childnet, the difference between good and bad secrets, and teaching on physical boundaries (incorporating the PANTS resource the NSPCC). Children also learn about the effects of harmful substances (including alcohol and tobacco), some basic First Aid and what makes a 999 emergency and what they should do if in an emergency situation.

Lower Key Stage Two

The sessions here help children to develop a more complex appreciation of different family
structures and there are activities and strategies to help them develop healthy relationships with family and friends; here, they are also taught simplified CBT techniques for managing thoughts, feelings and actions.

Once again, for the ‘Keeping Safe’ unit, we have incorporated some excellent NSPCC resources, as well as teaching on bullying and abuse through a series of animated stories. Children will also learn in greater depth about the effects of drugs, alcohol and tobacco and how to make good choices concerning these as they get older. The final session of the module explores in more detail what to do in emergency situations.

Upper Key Stage Two

The sessions for UKS2 in the ‘Personal Relationships’ module aim to equip children with strategies for more complex experiences of relationships and conflict; this includes sessions that help children to identify and understand how to respond to spoken and unspoken pressure, the concept of consent and some practical demonstrations of this, and further
teaching on how our thoughts and feelings have an impact on how we act.

Over the first three sessions in the Unit ‘Keeping Safe’, the programme explores the risks of sharing and chatting online at a level more appropriate to Years 5 and 6, and a more complex
understanding of different forms of abuse. The final three sessions in this Module explore how drugs, alcohol and tobacco can negatively affect people’s lifestyles and the body’s natural functioning, discuss how to make good choices even in pressured situations, and teach essential First Aid such as DR ABC and the recovery position.