Unifrog for Primary: PSHE lesson pack FAQs

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If you'd like to book a demo, request one here and we’ll set up a meeting with you, or email our Primary School Partnerships Managers, Kai (kai@unifrog.org), or Thaïs (thais@unifrog.org), or call us on +4420 3372 5991.
 

In this guide we answer your FAQs about the Unifrog PSHE lesson pack for primary schools.

In a nutshell - what is the PSHE lesson pack for primary schools?

100 engaging lessons that fully cover every aspect of the PSHE curriculum for children aged 4 to 11. 

The pack makes it easy for you to meet both the Department for Education statutory RSE and health education and the PSHE Association learning objectives. 

The PSHE Association is the national body for PSHE education in the UK, recognised by the Department for Education and funded in part by government to provide guidance and evidence-based frameworks for schools. 

The PSHE lesson pack's spiral curriculum is:

• Plug-and-play
  Easy to deliver with minimal prep time.
   
• Supportive
  Detailed guidance allows you to deliver challenging topics confidently.
   
• Harmonised with careers education
  Lesson activities help broaden children’s understanding of careers.
   
• Engaging
  Interactive tasks empower children to become active learners.

How does the PSHE lesson pack fit with the rest of Unifrog for primary schools?

If you subscribe to Unifrog as a primary school, you get five main things. Each of these work together to create a one-stop-shop for Careers and PSHE for primary schools:

• Careers lesson pack
  Engaging, plug-and-play lessons that make up a comprehensive spiral careers curriculum for primary school.
   
• PSHE lesson pack
  Plug-and-play, comprehensive spiral PSHE curriculum from Reception upwards.
   
• Interactions tool
  Centralised recording of all careers and PSHE activities (lessons, assemblies, school trips), as well as internal and external reporting.
   
• Careers library
  Interactive profiles of career sectors, filterable by school subject, showing children the full range of exciting careers available to them, and challenging stereotypes to do with gender and socio-economic background.
   
• Parent accounts
  Parents have their own accounts for Unifrog. They can see the interactions added for their children, and browse the Careers library.

What exactly is in the PSHE lesson pack?

• For Early Years
  • Story-based lesson PowerPoints for each PSHE theme, designed for 30 minute delivery.
  • Optional printable stories and character illustrations.

  • Continuous provision recommendations to compliment each lesson.

     

• For Key Stages 1 and 2
  • Ready-to-teach lesson PowerPoints for each PSHE theme, designed for 60 minute delivery.
  • An optional accompanying worksheet for each lesson. 

There are also materials to support assessment, inspection, and sharing your PSHE curriculum with parents and caregivers, alongside a printable learning journey to display around your school.

Want to see what the lessons are like? Here are some samples you can download:

• Reception lesson PowerPoint
• Reception optional printable characters 
• Year 1 lesson PowerPoint
• Year 1 optional printable worksheet
• Year 1 optional printable story
• Year 3 lesson PowerPoint
• Year 3 optional printable worksheet
• Year 6 lesson PowerPoint
• Year 6 optional printable worksheet
   

How is the PSHE lesson pack structured?

The Pack uses a spiral curriculum model, meaning that, year-on-year, children build knowledge and skills in each PSHE topic area. Here’s a screenshot showing an extract of the PSHE spiral curriculum – each lesson’s title is hyperlinked to its resource profile on the Unifrog platform:
 

Within each Key Stage, we’ve suggested which lessons to deliver to each year group, but you can order the lessons as you like. We provide a blank calendar for you to create your own PSHE and careers programme, combining lessons from our PSHE Lesson Pack and Careers Lesson Pack:

What topics does the PSHE lesson pack cover?

Along with the Careers lesson pack, the PSHE lesson pack covers the full Department for Education statutory RSE and health education and PSHE Association objectives for children aged 4-11. 

All PSHE Association topics are covered, which include and expand on the Department for Education statutory RSE and health education:

How can we be sure the Pack meets the Department for Education and PSHE Association objectives?

• Designed by primary teaching specialists
  Unifrog’s Teaching Resources Team has a wealth of primary teaching experience, across year groups. 
   
• Written from the ground up
  We’ve made every lesson from scratch, taking care to research PSHE guidelines for each topic before constructing the lesson.
   
• Quality assured
  Each lesson has been quality assured by Unifrog’s Teaching Resources Team. 
   
• Exhaustive documentation
  Tabs on the PSHE Lesson Pack spreadsheet show:
  • Which Department for Education RSE and health education objectives are met by which lessons
  • Which PSHE Association objectives are met by which lessons 

As an example, here’s a screenshot showing a small section of the PSHE Association objectives, and which lessons in the Pack meet them: 

Are the lessons in the PSHE Lesson Pack really plug-and-play?

Yes! While all resources are fully editable, we’ve made it as easy as possible for you to simply open our PowerPoints and teach: 

• Computer access not necessary
  Children can complete lesson activities through discussion or role play, in exercise books, or on paper.
   
• Optional printable worksheets
  Suggested printing is always kept to a minimum. 
   
• Clearly explained activities on the slides
  There’s no need to refer to accompanying notes or lesson plans to understand how to deliver an activity.

How does the Pack approach sensitive PSHE topics?

We’ve worked hard to support you with teaching sensitive topics in PSHE. For all lessons, we provide:

• Supportive learning environment slides
  Top tips to help you create a safe environment for PSHE education. 
• Guidance slides
  An overview of the topic area to help you quickly understand key issues.
• FAQs slides
  Model answers to help you respond to potentially awkward or difficult questions posed by children.
• Ground rules slides
  Reminders to establish ground rules for PSHE lessons, like ‘respect others’ views even if they might be different to ours.’ 
• Teacher’s notes
  Notes to support the delivery of activities, including:
  • Key term definitions
  • Sentence starters and scaffolding
  • Supporting facts and information 
  • Suggested answers

• Further information/support slides
  A list of helpful organisations that can provide more information or support linked to the topic area.

   

How have you made sure the lessons in the Pack are engaging?

We know children ‘switch off’ when lessons are too passive. We’ve made sure our PSHE lessons are engaging by:

• Grounding new concepts to reality
  This might involve children reflecting on a case study, taking part in a role play, or giving advice to a fictional character in a scenario. 
• Using story-based learning
  We use stories to help children learn about new, abstract, or complex PSHE concepts. When a lesson features a story, we also provide a printable Word document, accompanied by illustrations.
• Providing challenge and pace
  The lessons have clearly defined objectives and tightly timed activities. We provide additional challenge tasks to encourage children to think deeply about the topic area.

How are the lessons in the Pack harmonised with careers education?

The lessons include optional careers reflection activities. Activities encourage children to identify varied careers linked to PSHE topics or apply PSHE concepts to workplace scenarios. Here’s an example linked to the topic of kindness:

How does the PSHE lesson pack support children with SEND?

Every lesson has an optional, printable, and editable worksheet, linked to the activity we think is likely to be most challenging, providing extra scaffolding.

The worksheets vary depending on lesson content, but typically include: 

• Drawing or design tasks
• Prompts for role play activities
• Sentence starters
• Multiple choice questions
• Simplified case studies with visual prompts 

The worksheets are fully editable, allowing you to tailor the content or formatting to suit the needs of children in your class. 

Whilst we understand that support will need to be personalised for the individual needs of children at your school, we provide some general suggestions for additional support on the first slide of each lesson PowerPoint.

How does the PSHE lesson pack deal with assessment?

We know that meaningful and robust assessment of the impact of their PSHE curriculum is a key priority for schools. We also know that assessment in PSHE should not look like assessment in other curriculum subjects. 

We support you to assess the impact of our PSHE lessons in four main ways:

• Starter tasks
  Assess children’s prior knowledge of topics and retrieval of concepts covered in previous PSHE lessons.
   
• Plenary tasks
  Allow children to apply, evaluate, or reflect upon what they’ve learned.
   
• Editable mind map templates
  Assess children’s knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs at the beginning of a topic through key words, sentences, or drawings. This mind map can then be revisited at the end of the topic, with children adding new information, ideas, or attitudes in a second colour to demonstrate progress.
   
• Reflection slides
  Check understanding of key concepts, and evidence how PSHE education has affected children’s attitudes and behaviours. These can be completed after each lesson, or series of lessons. Reflections can be verbal, or you may ask children to write reflections in a different colour to highlight where assessment is taking place in their work. 

How does the PSHE Lesson Pack support with inspection?

The Pack supports you to evidence your PSHE provision for Ofsted's ‘Personal Development’ judgement. You could use our intent, implementation, and impact statement as a starting point for your own preparations.

Who can I share Unifrog teaching resources with?

You can share the resources with any colleagues at your school (including ones without a Unifrog account), but you cannot share all or part of the PSHE Lesson Pack with people outside your school, or upload all or part of it to public shared drives or forums (like Facebook groups). We provide guidance about sharing your PSHE curriculum with parents and caregivers.

How do I access the resources?

When you have a Unifrog for primary subscription, the PSHE lesson pack appears for all teachers on the teacher side of Unifrog, in the Resources library, alongside our Careers lesson pack.

You can access both lesson packs:

• As online Google Sheets
• As downloadable Excel spreadsheets
• By searching the Resources library interface (by keyword, PSHE topic, age, skills, etc.)

How can I find out more?

If you'd like to book a demo, request one here and we’ll set up a meeting with you, or email our Primary School Partnerships Managers, Kai (kai@unifrog.org), or Thaïs (thais@unifrog.org) , or call us on +4420 3372 5991.

Find out more about our Careers lesson pack here.