Kindergarten Friendology Program

How to be a ‘Friendship Ninja’

Kindergarten commenced the Friendology Program this term to help the students navigate their way through the ups and downs in their friendships.

The students have started to learn the skills and language to help them with the ‘rollercoaster world’ of friendship, and are reminded frequently by their teachers that it is normal for friendship to feel challenging or tricky at times. The students have also learnt how to be a ‘friendship ninja’ by being kind, open, honest, brave, and most of all, by having fun. The students were particularly interested in learning how to be kind to themselves through positive ‘self-talk’, as this is just as important as being kind to others.

The students were also very interested in learning how to be brave, as bravery helps us to learn, grow and become stronger. The notion of ‘bravery’ was compared for the students to the feeling of having butterflies in their tummies. The students were taught explicitly that bravery is when they feel the butterflies, but they do something anyway because it is the right thing to do.

Kindergarten students gather as a grade to complete the Friendology lessons. They enjoy spending time with students in different classes, and look forward to their fortnightly lessons together.

Rebecca Saba, Brooke Napper, Anna Donato and Melissa Mannah
Classroom Teachers