Lesson 6 - Character Building

• What is character building?
• Ways to improve self-esteem.
• How setting goals can improve your character.

Relationships, goals, self-esteem, character building, role models, support, character, positivity, confidence, happy, determined, respectful.

• Supports pupils understanding of what character building and self-esteem is.
• Helps pupils to understand the importance of setting goals.

• Lesson PPT.
• Paper, pen, and colours.

• Introduce the session with the lesson objectives.
• Video: Show the class the video about role models.
• Group discussion: Ask pupils to discuss if they have a role model, who it is and why. Ask children to stand up and discuss this with the group.

• Explain what self-esteem is using slides 8, 9, 10 and 11.
• Group activity: Pass the positivity. Sit children in a circle and going clockwise around the circle, tell the person to your left something positive about them! See slide 12.
• Group activity: Stick Man. Give each child a piece of paper and ask them to draw a stickman. Around this stickman they will write down any happy and positive things that people would say about them. See slide 16.
• Explain that it’s OK to feel sad and why we may feel sad using slides 13 and 14.
• Explain why we should set goals, using slides 18 and 19.

• Encourage pupils to always try to set smart goals.
• Encourage pupils to believe in their own ability.
• Encourage pupils to self-reflect and improve themselves.
• Reflection time: Ask pupils to think about 3 things they have learnt today and what they will do differently in the future.