The Friendship Adventure : An Awareness of Others Programme, Developing Kindness, Friendship and Understanding.

The Friendship Adventure is a project for children aged seven to eleven in primary schools or children's groups. It uses stories and the themes from those stories and links these with fun games, activities and project ideas to help children develop understanding and acceptance of differences in people and people's lives. The Friendship Adventure's aims are to help all children: develop understanding and acceptance of themselves as unique individuals; *to value the diversity of people; *to explore and develop the qualities of kindness, friendship and understanding - enhancing their own and others' sense of self-esteem and confidence,(developing friendship and social skills in general); *develop values and behaviours that reduce the likelihood of bullying, exclusion of others and discriminatory views. The Friendship Adventure teaches awareness and acceptance of differences and uniqueness in people in groups, school, communities and the wider world in which we live - with the intention that children will carry the promoted values of kindness, appreciation and understanding forward into their adult lives. The stories to use with this programme are available from the Strawberry Jam Books website and/or are available as paperback books. The activities can be adapted according to the ability/age level of the children.