Year 1 PSHE Activities, Resources & Lesson Plans
Explore ready-to-teach Year 1 PSHE activities, lesson plans and schemes of work for your Year 1 PSHE curriculum. Covering relationships, health and wellbeing and wider PSHE themes, our engaging resources help children explore friendships, feelings, healthy choices, staying safe, decision making, money and life in the wider world.
What should children learn in Year 1 PSHE?
Year 1 PSHE helps children begin to understand themselves, their relationships and the world around them. Through age-appropriate discussion and activities, children can learn about friendships and feelings, healthy choices, staying safe, making decisions, money and their responsibilities towards other people.
Build positive relationships
Help children explore what makes a good friend, how to show kindness and respect, how their behaviour can affect others and what they can do when friendships or relationships become difficult.
Understand feelings and wellbeing
Support children in recognising and naming different feelings, talking about their emotions and beginning to develop simple strategies for looking after their emotional and physical wellbeing.
Make safe and thoughtful choices
Give children opportunities to think about everyday choices, recognise situations that may be unsafe, understand simple consequences and learn when and how to ask a trusted adult for help.
Explore money and the wider world
Introduce children to simple ideas about money, needs and wants, responsibilities and communities, helping them understand that their choices and actions can have an impact on other people.
Explore our Year 1 PSHE Resources
Browse our complete collection of Year 1 PSHE resources, lesson plans and schemes of work. Explore ready-to-teach Year 1 PSHE activities covering relationships and friendships, feelings and emotional wellbeing, healthy choices, staying safe, decision making, money and social awareness, designed to help children develop essential life skills and support engaging, age-appropriate PSHE learning throughout Year 1.
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Planning Year 1 PSHE
When planning PSHE in Year 1, give children regular opportunities to explore ideas that relate to their everyday lives and experiences. Year 1 PSHE activities can help children learn about friendships and relationships, recognise and talk about different feelings, make healthy choices, understand how to stay safe and begin to think about the consequences of their decisions.
Plan a balanced Year 1 PSHE curriculum that introduces these ideas through discussion, stories, scenarios, games and practical activities that young children can understand and relate to. Across the year, children can develop their understanding of emotional wellbeing, healthy relationships, money, risk and social awareness while building important skills such as listening to others, expressing their ideas, making thoughtful choices and knowing when to ask for help. Revisiting these themes in different contexts helps children build confidence and provides a strong foundation for PSHE learning throughout KS1.
Planning PSHE across KS1? Explore our complete KS1 PSHE Curriculum Pack →Frequently Asked Questions about Year 1 PSHE
What is PSHE in Year 1?
PSHE stands for Personal, Social, Health and Economic education. In Year 1, PSHE helps children begin to understand themselves and other people, develop positive relationships, recognise and talk about feelings, make healthy and safe choices and learn about money and life in the wider world.
What should be taught in Year 1 PSHE?
A Year 1 PSHE curriculum can include learning about friendships and relationships, feelings and emotional wellbeing, healthy lifestyles, staying safe, making choices, recognising risk, money and social awareness. Activities should be age-appropriate and give children plenty of opportunities to talk about ideas and relate their learning to familiar situations.
What are some suitable Year 1 PSHE activities?
Year 1 PSHE activities can include stories, discussion prompts, role play, games, sorting and matching activities, simple scenarios, drawing and writing tasks and opportunities for children to reflect on their own experiences. Using a variety of activities can make abstract ideas such as emotions, relationships and consequences easier for young children to understand.
What are typical Year 1 PSHE learning objectives?
Year 1 PSHE learning objectives will depend on the topic being taught, but children might learn to recognise and name different feelings, identify qualities of a good friend, understand how to make healthy choices, recognise safe and unsafe situations, consider the consequences of simple decisions and begin to understand needs, wants and money.
How can I teach friendships and relationships in Year 1?
Use situations that children can easily recognise, such as making a new friend, sharing, including others, dealing with disagreements or noticing how somebody else might be feeling. Stories, puppets, role play and simple scenarios can help children discuss kindness, respect and friendship without requiring them to talk directly about their own experiences.
How can Year 1 PSHE support children's emotional wellbeing?
PSHE can help Year 1 children build the vocabulary they need to recognise and describe different emotions. Lessons can encourage children to think about what might cause particular feelings, explore simple strategies for managing difficult emotions and understand that they can talk to a trusted adult when they need help.
How do RSE and PSHE fit together in Year 1?
In Year 1, learning about relationships can sit naturally within a school's wider PSHE provision. Children can explore age-appropriate topics such as families, friendships, kindness, respect, personal boundaries and asking for help alongside other PSHE learning about health, wellbeing and the wider world.
What is included in PlanBee's Year 1 PSHE lesson plans?
PlanBee's Year 1 PSHE schemes of work include ready-to-teach lesson plans, teaching slides, differentiated activities and printable resources. The lessons provide structured learning while giving children opportunities to discuss ideas, consider different situations and develop skills they can apply to everyday life.
Does PlanBee have a complete Year 1 PSHE curriculum?
Yes. PlanBee's Year 1 PSHE resources form part of our complete KS1 PSHE curriculum, with six schemes of work for Year 1. You can choose individual schemes to complement your existing PSHE planning or use them as part of PlanBee's complete KS1 PSHE Curriculum Pack.
