Lesson 4 - Confidence

• What confidence is.
• How confidence can help us in life.
• How you can build your confidence.

Confidence, strengths, positivity, challenge, pride, belief, support, opportunities, skills, talents, character, dreams, resilience, ability and knowledge.

• Lesson PPT, paper, pen and colours.

• Supports pupils in their understanding of why self-respect is important.
• Supports pupils to understand how self-respect impacts their happiness.

• Introduce the session with the lesson objectives.
• Explain to the class what confidence means.
• Discuss: Ask pupils to discuss how confidence can help them. Invite them to share their answers with the class and share the examples on slide 4.

• Activity: Who am I - Print out the statements on slide 5 and ask pupils to complete the sentences about everything they are. Pupils can share and compare their answers in pairs.
• Activity: My personal shield – Print out a shield outline and ask pupils to complete each section with the answers to the 6 things on slide 6. Invite pupils to share their shields with each other and the class.
• Explain what self-confidence looks like using slide 7.
• Show the video called ‘the reflection in me’.
• Read the poem about believing in yourself.
• Activity: Your strengths – ask pupils to write about the strengths they have to do with their character, talents or skills etc. Invite pupils to share them with the class.

• Activity: Ask pupils to discuss ways they can compliment each other to give them a confidence boost. You can write a list on the board.
• Read through the top tips to build confidence.
• Reflection time: Ask pupils to think about 3 things they have learnt today and what they will do differently in the future