Our Year 5–6 Program helps students understand the role they play in their relationships, learn to look behind behaviour, and explore how their words and actions affect others. With growing online exposure and social pressures, this is the age where early intervention matters most.

Program Overview

2 x 45-minute sessions (in-class)
Includes a Teacher Resource Pack to embed TKS values across the term
Parent session available (in-person or virtual)

Designed for both standalone primary schools and private schools with middle school pathways, this program acts as a feeder experience for long-term TKS integration, while delivering powerful insights that stand on their own.

What We Explore

  • 🔹 Friendship Dynamics – What healthy friendships look and feel like

  • 🔹 Personal Leadership – Understanding the power of our influence

  • 🔹 Perspective-Taking – Seeing beyond our own experience

  • 🔹 Online Influence & Emotional Boundaries – How to protect our mental space

  • 🔹 Looking Behind Behaviour – Why people act the way they do, and what that means for us

  • 🔹 “We Teach People How to Treat Us” – Building self-respect and respectful boundaries

  • 🔹 Drama & Group Dynamics – Understanding our role and shifting toxic patterns

This is not just about managing conflict, it’s about creating a generation that leads with empathy, awareness, and integrity.

Year 5–6 Program: Leading Ourselves, Understanding Others

Building Stronger Friendships, Safer Communities, and Self-Aware Leaders.

Teacher Resource Pack

Each school receives a tailored resource pack for Year 5–6 teachers to:

  • Reinforce emotional vocabulary and shared language

  • Support students in applying concepts through follow-up activities

  • Model curiosity, compassion, and personal responsibility in the classroom

Parent & Carer Session

This age group is still deeply shaped by the adults around them—and the messages they hear at home. Our parent session supports carers to:

  • Reflect on how their language and assumptions may fuel drama or disconnection

  • Shift from a fixed mindset to one of growth and leadership

  • Understand what’s behind behaviour without excusing it

  • Support stronger friendships and emotional resilience at home

A Whole-School Ripple Effect

With students, teachers, and families working from the same foundation, we don’t just change behaviour, we also shift culture.

This program plants the seed for emotional intelligence and leadership early, before the social pressure escalates, so students are better prepared to enter the middle years grounded, aware, and capable of healthy connection.

📩 Enquire now to bring The Knowing Self to your Year 5–6 community.