How to empower pupils to use their problem-solving skills when friendship conflicts occur

Things to consider:

• What approaches have been used successfully in the school? Could they be adapted to address this difficultly?
• Help pupils to better understand their emotions. For example, use of the Zones of Regulation approach as a whole class tool, emotional literacy techniques.
• [KK1] for assessing emotional vocabulary of the class.
• Use pupil voice to influence the change. For example, pupils could use cameras to capture view of school / Landscape of Fear.
• Develop a Circle of Friends approach.
• Consider the use of social stories. What happened?  what could we do differently?
• Consider how staff are modelling language and reflecting this back to pupils.

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Last updated 16 August 2021