Teacher guide · Confidence Lab · Harder · about 32 min
🧭 Tricky Moments
Pupils practise confidence and real life thinking through "Tricky Moments": Choose confident, kind ways to handle tricky situations.
Lesson guide
1. Hook · 5 min
Show the 🧭 mission title and read the opening: "Someone takes your seat at lunch.". Take three quick guesses.
2. Model · 5 min
Think aloud through the first step together. Use Echo the Parrot's line as your prompt: "Say it clearly — I'm listening."
3. Do · 10 min
Pairs work through the 4 steps on screen or on the printed sheet. Circulate and ask "why?"
4. Discuss · 10 min
Use two or three of the discussion questions. Ask pairs to share different answers, not just correct ones.
5. Reflect · 5 min
Exit ticket: one sentence on how they used confidence today.
Discussion questions
- What was the hardest choice in "Tricky Moments", and why?
- Someone takes your seat at lunch — explain your reasoning to a partner.
- You don't understand the task — explain your reasoning to a partner.
- A friend is left out of a game — explain your reasoning to a partner.
- Where could you use confidence outside school this week?
- If you did this again, what would you change?
Adapting it
Support: Read prompts aloud, pair with a confident partner, and accept spoken or drawn answers for writing steps.
Stretch: Ask pupils to create their own extra step for a partner and explain the correct answer.
Curriculum links
- National Curriculum: English: spoken language — articulate and justify answers
- PSHE: Relationships: communicating feelings and listening to others
- PSHE: Health & wellbeing: resilience and managing setbacks
Pupil sheet
🧭 Tricky Moments
Name: ____________________ Date: __________
1. Someone takes your seat at lunch.
☐ Calmly say: 'Excuse me, I was sitting there.'
☐ Shout at them
☐ Say nothing and feel upset all day
2. You don't understand the task.
☐ Put your hand up and ask
☐ Copy a friend
☐ Give up
3. A friend is left out of a game.
☐ Invite them to join
☐ Ignore it
☐ Laugh
4. Write about a tricky moment and a confident thing you could say.