⚠️ Staff — before you start: keep every example at pattern level, never a personal story in the open room. If a pupil begins to disclose, stop the task calmly and follow the school safeguarding procedure. Note anyone who goes quiet and offer a private word afterwards.
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✔Spot pressure — online and offline, and the warning signs.
✔Know the rule — nobody has the right to pressure you. Ever.
✔Know the way out — telling is strength, and it's never too late.
How we'll know it landed
You can name two warning signs of pressure, and say who you'd tell — knowing you would not be in trouble.
First 60 seconds
Let's get thinking
Most friendship is real. But 'kindness' with strings attached isn't kindness — and pressure has patterns you can learn to spot, online and off. Today we learn the patterns.
💬 Round the room: Thumb check: have you ever felt pushed into something? (No details — just thumbs.)
Spark 1
Pressure online
1. Anything you send can be saved, copied, shared — you lose control of it.
2. Nobody has the right to pressure you to share anything.
3. Already happened? NEVER too late, NEVER your fault — a trusted adult can help.
GROUP CHAT · 21:04
“come on, everyone's doing it”
😀 a joke
GROUP CHAT · 21:06
“why are you being weird about it”
👈 a nudge
GROUP CHAT · 21:11
“do it or you're out of the chat”
👊 a push
GROUP CHAT · 21:14
“I'll tell everyone what you said then”
⚠ a threat
🚪 THE LINE THAT WORKS AT ANY OF THEM
“Nah, I'm not doing that.” Then put the phone down. You don't owe a reason.
works at 21:04works at 21:14
GROUP CHAT · 21:04
“come on, everyone's doing it”
😀 a joke
TEN MINUTES, START TO THREAT
● HOW IT ACTUALLY GOES
Pressure works by making step four feel like the first point you could have said no. It wasn't.
You can leave at any message · a real mate takes the first no · leaving a chat is not losing · tell someone the same night ·
Read the times. The whole thing took ten minutes — that's the speed you have to spot it at.
Spark 2
Pressure offline
1. Most kindness is real. 'Kindness' with a debt attached isn't.
2. Warning signs: keep it secret, carry this, prove yourself, you owe me.
3. Feeling trapped is the signal to talk — telling is strength, and you're not in trouble.
The Talk · you do
Everyone plays
Standard: With a partner: agree your one-line pressure rule — how you'd say no and who you'd tell.
Supported: Sort the picture cards into OK / CHECK / STOP with an adult.
Two minutes, then voices: one line per pair — Cold Call decides who speaks first.
Your voiceLUNDY LOOP · VOICE
The class pressure rule
Together we write ONE class pressure rule ('We don't owe anyone…') — the class's own words, on the wall.
This is the real thing: voice → decision → action. Watch it happen this week.
Pressure works by making step four feel like the first time you could have said no. It wasn't.
Check-out · pass allowed
Who would you talk to if something felt off?
Tap a word — or say your own. One each round the room. Passing is always okay.
Evidence slot · pupil & TA run
Prove it
Evidence Captain: ONE photo of today's task — work, not faces (unless consent is filed).
Captain reads, class completes: “Today we learned to spot pressure: our rule is ___.”
TA: file it in the school's evidence system, tag KCSIE + tutor group, tick the tracker.
Launch extension: pupil writes the 'strength' line — why telling is strong, not snitching.
Exit ticket
Quick check — no pressure
Q1. Someone says 'if you were a real mate, you'd send it.' That is…
Q2. You already shared something you regret. The truth is…
Q3. Which is a pressure warning sign?
Nothing added yet.
🔒 What you type is never shown on this screen and is not saved on this device. Only staff can open it, on paper, and only they decide what happens next.
If you need someone tonight: any adult here, or your form tutor tomorrow morning — outside school, Childline 0800 1111 is free, any time, and doesn't show on the bill.
👩🏫 TA Focus — this slide
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🎯 Cold Call
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Roster (one per line — saved on this device, shared with your other lessons):
Saved on this device · clears itself after 14 days
✅ That's the session
You can name two warning signs of pressure, and say who you'd tell — knowing you would not be in trouble.
Next time: the five people who've always got your back.