Unifrog’s primary PSHE Lesson Pack: FAQs

Our primary PSHE Lesson 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 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.

What’s in the PSHE Lesson Pack?

86 downloadable lessons that – along with the primary Careers Lesson Pack – fully cover every aspect of the PSHE curriculum for children aged 5 to 11. 

All lessons are designed for 60 minute delivery and consist of a ready-to-teach PowerPoint and optional accompanying worksheet. 

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.

How is the PSHE Lesson Pack structured? Is it flexible?

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 5-11. 

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

Important note: The lessons meet the current Department for Education statutory RSE and health education guidance (first published in 2019 and in force since 2020). The draft guidance published for consultation in May 2024 remains a draft only and is not statutory. 

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 
  • Suggested answers 
  • Supporting facts and information
• 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. Stories are used 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?

At Unifrog, we’re passionate about broadening horizons and raising aspirations. Where relevant, PSHE 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 (e.g. Facebook groups). We provide guidance about sharing your PSHE curriculum with parents and caregivers.

How do I access the resources?

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.)

What’s available when?

There are ready-to-teach PSHE lessons for Years 1 to 6 for these topic areas:

• Hurtful behaviour and bullying
• Friendships
• World of work (covered in the Careers Lesson Pack) 

Each half term, additional topic areas will be released, leading to a full PSHE spiral curriculum for Years 1 to 6 for the 2025-26 academic year:

• Families and close relationships 
• Physical health
• Mental health and addiction
• Safety in and outside the home
• Online safety
• Safe relationships
• Money
• Growing and changing
• Respecting ourselves and others
   

How can I find out more?

Sign up to our Unifrog for primary schools webinar on 9 July here.

Find out more about our Careers Lesson Pack here. 

You can either request a demo here and we’ll set up a meeting with you, or email us at info@unifrog.org to find out more.