Competence
Learn about skills you already have, and how you use them to care
Competence means learning the skills to do something really well.
Competence is having the ability to do a task using your skills and knowledge.
Activity one - picture and story
You will need
- One piece of paper
- Coloured pens/pencils
Task
- Write down something you did to help someone and then draw a picture showing how you helped them.
This could be helping one of your friends when they’re feeling sad or helping a family member at home.
- Around your picture, write down which skills you used.
Examples include problem solving, communication, and listening.
You’ll find that you do lots of things to help people, without realising it.
If we can all do one small thing to help everyone every day, we can make a really big difference to other people's happiness and health.
Activity two: Caring for teddy
You will need
- Teddy bears (or dolls/action figures)
- Sticky notes
- Pen/pencils
Task
Go into groups of four. Each group has a teddy bear or a toy. The teddy bear is feeling sad, cold and hungry.
You have three sticky notes in front of you, answer each of these questions on the sticky notes:
What would you say to the teddy bear to make it feel happy?
What would you do to make the teddy bear less cold?
How would you find out what the teddy bear wants to eat?
Once you’re finished stick them to around your bear and raise your bear up to the sky.
The purpose of this activity is for you to role play caring for someone.
We mentioned earlier, everyone has different care needs. The teddy’s is sad, cold, and hungry. Are you able to use your skills and knowledge to figure out how to make the teddy happy and less cold?
How would you find out what it wants to eat? If so, you’ve used competence to do this.
Care and support can help people to feel good, happy and strong, so it’s important that we listen to what they need when we care for them.