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Identify and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing. 1. Pose question: what does it mean to be a friend? Examples could include: sharing, group work, holding the door open, being kind. 2. Pose question: what does it mean to be a GOOD friend? Examples could include: sharing special stories with, trustworthy, supportive, going above and beyond, and celebrating each other. 3. Pose question: what is the difference between being a friend and a good friend? (To help with this question, consider the notion of a friend in the class/cohort and a best friend. What is the difference?) Examples could include: you might tell a best/good friend when you are upset or you might have play dates, share resources and/or play together all the time. 4. Pose question: what do you think is key to being a good friend? Examples could include: being trustworthy, being supportive, asking your friend questions, celebrating your friend, standing up for your friend, being kind, keeping secrets, and sharing with your friend. 5. Let students know they will choose the top three qualities that they think are KEY to being a good friend. 6. Students use the ‘key templates’ to record their top three qualities that are key to being a good friend. 7. Students share their qualities with a small group. 8. Students record themselves answering the following question: Do you possess the qualities that you think are key for others to have? 9. Discuss with students the qualities they believe are key to unlocking a good friendship. Supporting Strategies: Students work in pairs to brainstorm qualities prior to commencing the ‘Key Template’. Extension Strategies: Ask students to consider when their top three qualities would be of good use. For example, celebrating a friend can be done even when