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Children learn how to support their peers through peer mediation when conflict arises in the playground. Their teacher explains that it is important to see both sides of the story. After role-play, children explain why it is important to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and understand how they feel in order to help them resolve their issues.

Students could be asked to brainstorm common conflict situations that occur in the playground. These situations could be explored through role-play in the same way as shown in this clip. Students could then swap places and consider the other person’s feelings in order to try to resolve their argument. If students find it difficult to do this they could ask for help from their audience. A solution to each of the common problems could then be noted.

Alternatively, students could further develop their ability to see a story from another perspective by retelling a well-known story or fairy tale from a new point of view. For example, students could retell the story of the ‘Three Little Pigs’ from the wolf’s point of view. Did he really only want to come inside their houses to eat them? How did he feel when they kept running away from him? Did he mean to blow their houses down?