Year 2 Friendology

During Friendology sessions this term, our Year 2 students have been focusing on the three topics of Inner Ninja, True Colours and Making Friends

In our first session the students focused on being an Inner Ninja, where they were encouraged to recognise that in order to establish healthy friendships, they first need to learn how to treat themselves with kindness and respect, and to be their own best friend. Students were engaged in a range of learning experiences, where they made friendship wristbands, as well as put themselves in a friend’s shoes by sharing a friend’s cool or crazy experience. In this powerful session the students learned the importance of empathy and self-compassion.

Our True Colours session was based on students identifying ways they are unique and as a class they reflected on feeling: positive and negative feelings, how feelings can change and how they can feel more or less sensitive at different times and about different things. The students engaged in a creative task where they created their own word to describe a complicated emotion and practised putting a voice to their feelings. They also completed a task where they expressed how they were feeling in symbols, colours and words and practising an I-statement.

In our third session, ‘Making Friends’, the students were introduced to strategies for making new friends, focusing on how to introduce themselves and asking a friend to play. Students were then provided with an opportunity to put these skills into practice through role plays with their peers, as well as applying their learning to a range of activities during Grade Fitness. 

We are looking forward to the upcoming sessions in Friendology and continuing to support the students learning the vital skills in making and maintaining healthy friendships.

Stephanie Yiorkas, Mersini Perivolarellis, Jessica Boumelhem, Nicole Meehan
Year 2 Teachers