Being courageous and confident (Commitment)

Lesson 1 LO: To explore the idea of moral courage.

In Year 3, you thought about facing physical fears, e.g. the dentist, spiders, etc.

Make a list, in your notebook, of different kinds of fears, e.g. being unpopular.

The most common fears, amongst 10-11 year olds, in the UK are…

• Divorce• Personal danger•War• Blood and injury• Animals• Kidnapping• Being alone in the dark• Injections

In your notebook, create a list of ‘wrong things’ (things that you should not do).

In your notebook, create a list of ‘wrong things’ (things that you should not do).

Shop lifting

Cyber bullying

Keeping quiet about someone else’s wrong

doing

Name calling

Physically hurting

someone

Ridiculing/making fun of others

Peer PressureSometimes people will do the wrong thing in order to fit in with their

peers (people who are around the same age as them).If you know that something is wrong, dangerous or could upset someone else, you should NEVER do this to fit in with others.

It’s important that you always stand up for what’s right - even if that means you don’t fit in with others.

Watch the clip -https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/coping-with-peer-pressure

Task Time:

Fill in the template and

answer:What are/were you afraid of?How have you overcome this

fear?

Split your page in half; on the top half

write something that you are or were

afraid of and explain why; on the bottom half explain how you did or can do to get over your fear; what gave you the courage

to overcome your fear and how did you

will/will you feel when you

overcame/overcome your fear.

Create a poster to encourage

Year 3/4 children to be true to their values and ignore peer

pressure.