The student is able to interact with others in positive ways and they show willingness, participation and leadership in healthy relationships. They are able to identify conflict and bullying and are able to solve these problems with empathy.

The student will:

• identify various forms of bullying behaviour and ways to avoid or solve bullying problems (e.g. walks away, seeks adult help)
• empathize with others (victims and bullies)
• participate in restitution to ensure all parties feel treated fairly
• describe prevention and seek help for others
• initiate and maintain friendships
• show kindness towards others
• collaborate with other students
• help others behave appropriately and solve problems
• enthusiastically participate in school activities, encourage others and promote school pride.
• recognize conflict situations and be able to help others deal with them appropriately
• use a variety of strategies for dealing with conflicts
• demonstrate decision making skills that support conflict resolution

The student is able to interact with others in positive ways and identify positive aspects of relationships.  They can recognize bullying and behaviours of concern and can begin to form solutions to conflicts.

The student will:

• identify many forms of bullying behaviour, including emotional and social bullying (e.g. isolation, rumours)
• generate concern for the feelings of bullying victims (developing empathy)
• understand reasonable consequences of bullying behaviour
• initiate and maintain friendships with little adult support
• show kindness towards peers
• cooperate with other students
• interact appropriately in most situations
• willingly participate in school activities
• recognize various forms of conflict
• deal with conflict in appropriate ways
• develop empathy for the feelings of others

The student sometimes is able to interact with others in positive ways, and may need support to solve problems or conflicts.  They have difficulty seeing problems from another point of view and needs guidance to create and maintain healthy relationships.

The student will:

• identify common forms of bullying behaviour (limited to physical actions and name calling)
• describe feelings victims of bullying might feel, but limited to their own point of view
• identify common consequences of being a bully (e.g. detention, talk to teacher)
• initiate but often be unable to maintain positive interactions
• need occasional adult support to mediate conflicts
• develop awareness of the qualities of a good friend
• with adult support and/or reminders, participate in school activities
• need prompting to recognize and deal with conflict appropriately
• describe feelings associated with conflict but is limited to their own point of view

The student needs considerable support to interact with others appropriately, including creating and maintaining relationships. Student requires assistance identifying negative behaviour and dealing with conflicts. 

The student will:

• with support, be able to identify common forms of bullying behaviour, limited to physical actions and name calling
• require assistance to identify how bullying negatively affects the victim
• require prompting to list common consequences of being a bully (e.g. detention, talk to teacher)
• be socially unaware with other children
• require adult support to initiate and maintain positive interactions
• be a spectator for school activities but rarely participate
• require constant support recognizing and dealing with conflict appropriately
• require assistance to identify feelings  associated with conflict