In this set of fully prepared PSHE lessons, your Year 3 class will learn how to demonstrate their shared responsibility to care for the people and places in our communities. Throughout the scheme, children explore their own local communities and their rights and responsibilities as citizens.

This scheme focuses on building strong communities and maintaining healthy relationships with them. Your class will first identify the uniqueness and celebrate the diversity of their own local communities. The following lessons focus on how children can contribute to their communities as active citizens and on the role of community groups as well as local and national government. Children will come to understand the conventions for respectful communication and will develop strategies to help them work together to make decisions and resolve conflicts as well as to recognise and challenge discrimination through the use of carefully designed scenarios.

Each of these five ready-to-teach Year 3 PSHE lessons includes an easy-to-follow plan, engaging and informative slides, and a variety of resources.

A Knowledge Organiser is available to support the learning in this scheme. It is included in the Complete Series download or can be purchased individually.

You might also be interested in our other KS1 and KS2 schemes that cover PlanBee's core theme of Social Awareness.

You might like our My World Topic Bundle – perfect if you're looking for a cross-curricular approach to your teaching!

Celebrating my community

In this first lesson, children explore the people, places, cultures and traditions that make their community special.

To apply their understanding, children are asked to get creative by designing a mural wall for their community which celebrates its diversity. Alternatively, why not reach out and invite community representatives into your classroom to discuss what they think about the benefits of living in your diverse community?

This KS2 Community lesson pack includes an easy-to-follow plan, a set of informative slides for the teaching input, and a variety of printable resources for the children's independent activities.

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Contributing to my community

This lesson uses the book 'Do Something For Someone Else' by Loll Kirby to help children understand the different ways we can contribute positively to our communities to keep them healthy and strong.

Children dive right into active citizenship by conducting a survey to determine what to improve in their school community or by planning and carrying out an activity, such as tree planting, food bank donation or litter picking.

This Community Contributions KS2 lesson pack includes everything you need for a successful PSHE lesson: a detailed plan, a set of engaging slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

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Recognising and challenging discrimination

Here, children are introduced to a range of forms that discrimination could take in their community - both online and offline.

They are encouraged to consider how we can all take action against discrimination. Children apply their understanding by using scripts to rehearse their response to a range of carefully chosen scenarios.

This Challenging Discrimination KS2 lesson pack includes an easy-to-follow plan, a set of informative slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources.

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Resolving Conflict

In this lesson, children learn that it is normal for communities to have disagreements from time to time. They will find out how communities come together to solve problems and make decisions - e.g. through local government or community groups.

Then, children can apply their understanding by making a decision about how to spend money to improve their local park, in a ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ style! Alternatively, children can review and reflect on their own conflict resolution skills and set targets for improvement.

This Resolving Conflict KS2 lesson pack includes everything you need for an effective PSHE lesson: an easy-to-follow plan, a set of informative slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources.

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Debating Topical Issues

In this final lesson, children find out about the structure and function of the UK Parliament. They learn about representative democracy, how MPs are elected, Governments formed and Bills debated and passed into law.

Children can apply their understanding by taking part in a topical debate as to whether cities should become car-free zones. Alternatively, they can practise the conventions of arguing for and against a range of topics with their partner.

This Debating Topical Issues KS2 lesson pack includes an easy-to-follow plan, a set of informative slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources.

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This Year 3 PSHE Knowledge Organiser has been created to complement our PSHE Social Awareness strand. It is designed to support your children’s understanding of key vocabulary linked to this scheme of work. A thinking question and a big idea have been included to encourage your children to think deeply about this topic.

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