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TOLERANCE DAY

Tolerance game for school or home

The Tolerance Game

This is a good game for KS2 children, and can be done at home with the family or a group of friends. It’s designed to show how what we tolerate and what we don’t tolerate is on a scale, and isn’t simple.

1. Use masking tape to create a line on the table or floor, with the words ‘Tolerate’ at one end and ‘Never tolerate’ at the other.

2. Each person fills in four Post-It notes – two for what they ‘tolerate’ and two for what they ‘never tolerate’ – and places them along the line, according to how strongly they feel about it. Start with something simple like pop stars, football teams or vegetables. Then move on to behaviours (e.g. technology at the dinner table, interrupting, swearing, being drunk in front of children), and thirdly, ideas or beliefs (e.g. Brexit, eating meat, extremism).

3. Each person has an ‘opportunity’ Post-It (like Chance in Monopoly) with the following words: Why? (please explain yourself), Reverse (argue another person’s point for them e.g. Mummy not wanting phones at the table)? They can use their Post-It whenever they like in order to find out more, challenge or push for reasoning.

4. See if you can persuade someone to move their Post-It up or down the scale, based on a new perspective or persuasive argument.
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This game gets children thinking at a deeper level and is good at for developing listening, thinking and communication skills.
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