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Our Honesty Matters pupil leaflet is designed to help pupils understand the importance of being honest and truthful. This colourful, engaging six-page leaflet is designed for primary school pupils. This resource explores what honesty really means, why it matters in friendships and everyday life, and how being truthful helps build trust and respect.

Inside, pupils will find:

Clear explanations of honesty with real-life examples
The impact of lies on relationships and self-esteem
Everyday situations where honesty makes a difference
An honesty promise and reflective activity to encourage self-awareness
Perfect for ELSA Sessions, PSHE lessons, group discussions, or one-to-one sessions, this leaflet helps children reflect on their own experiences with honesty while learning how to be truthful in a kind and responsible way.

Inside the Honesty Matters Pupil Leaflet:
What is Honesty?
Pupils will learn that ghnesty means telling the truth, being real with your words and actions, and owning up to your mistakes even when it’s difficult.

Why is it Important?
Pupils will learn that being honest helps people trust and respect you, makes friendships stronger, and helps you feel confident in yourself.

How lies can cause problems
Here pupils will see how lies can hurt feelings, damage friendships, and lead to bigger problems, while honesty keeps relationships strong.

Practise honesty
Here pupils can learn that they can show honesty every day by admitting mistakes, being truthful with kindness, and standing up for what’s right.

Honesty challenge
Pupils can make an honesty promise and there is an activity to reflect on being honest

There is an editable part for you to put your contact details or just your name. Simply type in the blue box. Don’t worry the blue box doesn’t show when you print. You can of course just print it and handwrite your details.

There is a leaflet holder included in the pack which you can use to display your leaflets on the wall. There is also a BLACK AND WHITE version of the leaflet included in the pack. Some children might like to colour in the black and white version as you chat.

Important information
This Building Resilience pupil leaflet is meant to be used as part of ELSA Sessions or some other therapeutic session and shouldn’t just be given out to children without some input. Please DO NOT just give these out without that important input. They are purely reminders for the pupil to take away and for parents to get involved.

It is your responsibility to decide whether the information in this leaflet will be helpful to your pupils.

Under our terms and conditions these leaflets must not be put onto school websites.

They are for printing and giving to pupils at the end of a session or you could use them as a basis for your session. Work through each part with the pupil.