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Negotiating the World of Friendships and Relationships

A β€˜Cool to be Kind’ Storybook and Practical Resource
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Negotiating the World of Friendships and Relationships features a storybook introducing Coco, Otto, Ollie, and Ling as they navigate the challenges of friendships and relationships. Through their experiences, the characters demonstrate the power of kindness in changing lives and offer insight into why unkindness occurs and how kindness is always an alternative.
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Ideal for teachers, support staff, and therapists working with primary school children aged 7 and above. Particularly suited to PSHE lessons, this set supports fostering kindness, friendship, and self-compassion in educational settings.

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This unique set includes a storybook and practical guidebook. It is a powerful resource that can be used by teachers and support staff to highlight the importance of kindness.

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This unique set includes a storybook and practical guidebook. It is a powerful resource that can be used by teachers and support staff to highlight the importance of kindness.

The storybook introduces Coco, Otto, Ollie and Ling as they negotiate the sometimes tricky world of friendships and relationships, observing the unkindness of some and using their superpower – kindness – to change the lives of others. Explore with them what it means to be unkind, why that choice is sometimes made and how usually there is another choice – to be kind.

The guide that accompanies this book has detailed lesson plans with extensive guidance and photocopiable activity sheets to support individuals, groups or classes of children aged 7 and upwards.

This set includes:

  • Cool to be Kind: How to Negotiate the World of Friendships and Relationships – an illustrated storybook that explores and emphasises the importance of kindness
  • A Practical Resource for Negotiating the World of Friendships and Relationships – a practical resource for use by teachers, support staff and therapists, containing details of sessions to use with children to promote kindness, friendship and self-compassion

This set is a must-have resource for therapists, teachers and support staff in primary schools, particularly for use within primary PSHE lessons, to teach and promote kindness.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367537807

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Multiple-component retail product

Date Published: 25 February 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 4 Tables, black and white; 72 Halftones, color

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Nigel Dodds

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 297.0mm

Weight: 760g

Pages: 74

About the Author

Liz Bates is an independent education consultant. She supports both primary and secondary schools in all aspects of Emotional Health and Wellbeing, including whole school approaches, training staff and delivering talks to parents. Liz is a Protective Behaviours Trainer, a Wellbeing Award Advisor for Optimus and a Schools Engagement Trainer for The Anna Freud Centre.

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