Description
💬 Healthy Friendships – PSHE & Enterprise Drop Down Day
For Secondary Students Aged 11–14
Healthy Friendships PSHE & Enterprise Drop Down Day is a fresh, practical and fun approach to teaching the core values of friendship, empathy, and respectful boundaries. Designed to support and strengthen your existing PSHE provision, this one-day experience is ready to roll out and guaranteed to get students thinking critically from start to finish.
Alignment with New RSHE 2025 Requirements
This drop down day supports the updated RSHE curriculum in these important areas:
• Promotes healthy relationships, respect, and consent – core RSHE themes focused on building positive relationships and teaching students to recognise unhealthy dynamics
• Develops personal safety awareness – RSHE now includes topics like personal safety in public spaces; your delivery method allows a focused opportunity to explore these themes in context
• Supports mental health, loneliness, and resilience – updated guidance includes content on mental wellbeing, loneliness, and grief; a dedicated drop down day can weave in supportive discussion around these areas
• Increases safeguarding clarity and inclusion – schools are encouraged to create safe spaces, be inclusive of diverse family forms, and communicate clearly with parents; your day can model these principles
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Healthy Friendships – PSHE Life Day: Buddy Basics
👫 What is Buddy Basics All About?
This engaging day focuses on real-life friendship skills — not just theory. Students will explore what it really means to be a good friend through interactive, hands-on activities including:
🎭 Role-plays and scenario-based challenges
🧠 Critical thinking discussions
💬 Teamwork, active listening, and empathy exercises
💡 Exploring boundaries, respect, and constructive feedback
No lengthy prep required! Teachers are fully supported with:
- 📘 Teacher Instruction Guidance Booklet
- 📒 Student Guidance Booklet
- 💻 Presentation Slides (Sessions 1–5)
- 🎥 LᴉfeFluent Instructional Videos (Sessions 1–5)
- 📝 Student Evaluation Form
- 🎓 Student Certificates (optional)
- 📄 Printable Handouts and Activity Resources
You are provided with everything you need to deliver a high impactful ‘Drop Down Day’ on Healthy Friendships and Boundaries.
Licence to use this resource multiple times across multiple years in one establishment!
We recommend you click on the below link to view a preview of this day
Buddy Basics Drop Down Day Preview – Download
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Learning Outcomes
- Practice Empathy Responses: Students will learn to identify and practice empathetic responses by recognising emotions, validating feelings, and offering supportive statements to strengthen interpersonal connection
- Mirror Body Language: Students will explore the concept of mirroring body language as a non-verbal way to show empathy and understanding, practicing techniques that create a sense of connection and trust.
- Celebrate Others’ Joys: Students will develop the ability to express genuine happiness for others by practicing affirming language, enthusiastic reactions, and encouraging behaviours that relationships.
- Respond in Healthy Ways: Students will examine healthy empathetic responses, focusing on balancing compassion with appropriate boundaries, ensuring their support is respectful and constructive
Enterprise Skills Covered
Framing Friendships Day also presents a unique space for learners to practice essential enterprise skills, such as:
- Aspiration, creativity & goal-setting – guiding students to envision what healthy, supportive friendships look like and plan how to build them
- Positive risk-taking & opportunity recognition – encouraging students to step out of comfort zones in social contexts and seek out constructive relationships
- Communication, negotiation & leadership – activities and reflections during the day can develop assertiveness, empathy, teamwork, and healthy communication skills
- Critical thinking about influence – analysing and understanding peer and media influence (including online) helps students manage social pressures effectively
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✅ Why Choose This Drop Down Day?
Easy to deliver — all content provided and mapped to the PSHE framework
Builds real-world social and emotional skills
Boosts student engagement through hands-on learning
Perfect for whole year groups, key stages, or targeted cohorts
Equip your students with the tools they need to build stronger, healthier friendships — in school and beyond.
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🕒 How to Run a LᴉfeFluent Drop Down Day
Duration:
- 🏫 Morning Assembly: 10 minutes
- 🧠 Core Sessions: Approx. 5 hours of activities and guided learning
Running a LᴉfeFluent day couldn’t be easier. Each session is led using our detailed presentation slides, Teacher Guidance Booklets, and step-by-step LᴉfeFluent Instruction Videos. These guide both the teacher and students through interactive, purposeful activities — all of which are recorded in the students’ personal Guidance Booklets.
It’s a ready-made experience that allows teachers to focus on delivery, not planning — and students to focus on learning in a fun, structured format.
👥 Class Sizes & Format
Our drop down days are flexible enough to run across:
- A whole school, key stage, or single year group
- With a recommended maximum of 30 students per classroom
- Working in small collaborative groups of up to 5 students
We recommend starting the day with the Assembly video shown in a central space like a school hall. It’s a powerful way to build a sense of unity and clearly communicate the learning outcomes and purpose of the day ahead.
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💡 Is the Cre8tive LᴉfeFluent Drop Down Day Right for Your School?
Absolutely — and here’s why:
We’ve done all the heavy lifting so you don’t have to. Simply read through the Teacher Guidance Booklet, prepare any printing, and you’re ready to go! Our teacher presentation slides and LᴉfeFluent instruction videos will guide you step-by-step through the day, while students engage with their Student Booklets, which they can proudly take home afterwards.
We’ve hand-picked and curated only the most impactful resources and activities, tried and tested in schools nationwide. Each Drop Down Day is designed to be hands-on, engaging, and meaningful — ensuring your students get real value, and your staff feel supported.
But don’t just take our word for it — hear directly from teachers, leaders, and schools who’ve experienced it for themselves.
👉 Check out our Google Reviews
We are also more than happy to send you sample planning materials (We now work with over 700+ schools across the UK).
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💳 Payment Options Available
We offer several flexible payment methods to suit your school’s needs:
- School Purchase Orders – Simply email your PO to thecre8tiveresources@gmail.com and we’ll provide all the necessary paperwork for your finance team.
- BACS Transfers – Bank details will be provided upon request or invoice.
- Cheques – Please make cheques payable to Cre8tive Resources CIC.
- Card or PayPal – Secure payments can be made directly through our website using debit, credit card, or PayPal.
📄 Need to raise a Purchase Order?
👉 C8R-Purchase-Order-Information Download
For any queries or bespoke requirements, feel free to drop us an email or call us on +447591810146
📥 How Will I Receive My Resources?
All resources are delivered via digital transfer for quick and easy access.
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🌟 Why Choose This Resource?
- 💰 Save budget to invest in other key areas of your school
- ⏱️ Save hours of planning time with fully prepared, ready-to-teach lessons
- 🎓 Created by experienced PSHE leaders and subject specialists
- 💛 Support a not-for-profit organisation that reinvests in schools, SEMH settings, and early career teachers
- 🎯 Designed to engage students with dynamic, interactive activities
- 📚 Fully mapped to the latest PSHE statutory guidance and frameworks
- 👨🏫 Developed by a leading PSHE, Careers & Citizenship Teacherpreneur with over a decade of classroom and curriculum design experiencePlease Note:
This resource is licensed for use only within your school. It must not be shared externally, copied, or uploaded to any public platforms, drives, or social media groups.
By purchasing, you help us continue to support teachers and develop meaningful, high-quality PSHE content for schools across the UK.
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LᴉfeFluent has partnered with Cre8tive Resources to deliver a dynamic range of themed PSHE Curriculum Days, designed to inspire, educate, and engage students. These include:
