Consequences

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Do you know what consequences. are?
Key Stage 2

• Consequences

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Learning objectives
Every choice as a consequence.

• Understanding choices - how your actions affect
  you and others round you
• Understanding the consequences of choices,
  particularly the consequences of running away. 

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What are choices?
Everybody makes choices

• We have to make choices every day of our lives.
• We make a choice when we decide to take one
  course of action rather than another.
• All choices have consequences.

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What kind of choices do you make every day?
What are your choices.

• Shower or bath?
• Shorts or trousers?
• Toast or cereal?
• Walk to school or cycle?
• Pen or pencil?
• Football or athletics?
• Eastenders or Neighbours?

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Different kinds of choices
Some choices are easy others are hard.

• Some choices are harder than others
• Some choices have more serious consequences

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How to make choices
Always think about your choices carefully.

• If you are not sure about which choice to take,
  follow these steps
• Stop
• Think
• Consider your options
• Think about what the consequences of each of the
  options might be
• Make your choice.

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What would you do?
Scenerio 1

• A friend has some cigarettes.
• They want you to try them together.
• You do not really want to. Do you
• a) smoke the cigarette. You do not want to look
  stupid in front of your friend.
• b) refuse the cigarette?

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What would you do?
Scenerio 2

• You are at your friends house and they are in
  the bath. You see their diary open on their bed.
  Do you
• a) read through as much of the diary as you can
  before your friend comes back
• b) leave the room until your friend is out of
  the bath

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What would you do?
Scenerio 3

• You are one of the last people to leave your
  school playground one day and you see a younger
  pupil being bullied by some Year 6 children. Do
  you
• a) keep walking it is not your problem
• b) tell a teacher?

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case study

• Jasmine is 11 years old. Recently she has been
  having some problems at school. Some of the
  other girls have been calling her names and one
  of them even hit her last week. They have told
  her that they will do something worse if she
  tells anybody.

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case study

• Jasmine feels too scared to talk to her parents.
  Also, she feels that they only have time for her
  little brother and that they do not care that
  much about her. She feels like she cannot bear
  another day at school and she has started to
  think about running away from home.

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Remember Every choice has a consequence.
Character cards
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Remember
Remember Every choice has a consequence.

• Some consequences are good and some are bad.
• This is why it is so important to consider all
  our choices very carefully before taking any
  action, to make sure that we make the right
  choice for ourselves and for the people around
  us.