Best Practice

Encouraging pupils to make friends

Making friends is a key learning curve of primary school and teaches pupils many key skills for later life. However, it is something that some pupils can find difficult. Naomi Richards offers some ideas for how schools can help pupils to make and retain friends

Everyone needs a friend to have fun with and confide in. Without friends you would be very lonely. Some children find it incredibly easy to make friends but some children do not. They find it difficult to navigate the stormy seas that friendships can sometimes bring and that is down to them not having the right skills to understand friendship situations and knowing what to do to keep a friendship alive.

Friendships can be really complicated. Some are easy and do not require too much effort and others can be quite hard work. It can be difficult to get on with all of your peers as there are so many different personality types. Some children will clash and never see eye-to-eye while other children will get along with anybody give or take having the odd argument.

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