PSHE Year 2 Resources, Activities & Lesson Plans
Explore ready-to-teach PSHE Year 2 resources, activities, lesson plans and schemes of work for your Year 2 PSHE curriculum. Covering relationships, health and wellbeing and wider PSHE themes, our engaging lessons help children develop their understanding of friendships, feelings, healthy choices, staying safe, decision making, money and life in the wider world.
What should children learn in Year 2 PSHE?
Year 2 PSHE builds on children's early understanding of themselves, their relationships and the wider world. Through discussion and age-appropriate activities, children can explore friendships and relationships in greater depth, develop their understanding of feelings and wellbeing, make healthy and safe choices and become more aware of money, responsibilities and how their actions affect others.
Develop healthy relationships
Help children explore friendship, kindness and respect, recognise what makes a relationship positive and consider ways to manage disagreements, solve problems and get help when they need it.
Develop emotional awareness
Encourage children to recognise a wider range of feelings, consider how emotions can affect their behaviour and explore practical ways to manage difficult feelings and support their own wellbeing.
Make informed and safe choices
Give children opportunities to consider risks, make thoughtful decisions and understand that choices can have consequences, while developing their confidence in recognising unsafe situations and asking for help.
Understand money and responsibilities
Develop children's understanding of money, needs and wants, communities and responsibilities, helping them consider how people make choices and how their own actions can affect other people and the wider world.
Explore our Year 2 PSHE Resources
Browse our complete collection of Year 2 PSHE resources, lesson plans and schemes of work. Explore ready-to-teach Year 2 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 2.
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Planning Year 2 PSHE
When planning PSHE in Year 2, build on children's growing understanding of themselves, their relationships and the choices they make in everyday life. Year 2 PSHE activities can help children explore friendships and relationships in greater depth, develop their understanding of feelings and emotional wellbeing, make healthy choices, recognise risks and begin to take greater responsibility for their decisions and actions.
Plan a balanced Year 2 PSHE curriculum using discussion, stories, scenarios, games and practical activities that encourage children to think, talk and reflect. Across the year, children can develop their understanding of healthy relationships, wellbeing, staying safe, money, decision making and social awareness while building skills such as listening to different viewpoints, solving problems, making informed choices and knowing when to ask for help. Revisiting these themes in different contexts helps children consolidate their learning and prepares them for the increasing independence and complexity of PSHE learning in KS2.
Planning PSHE across KS1? Explore our complete KS1 PSHE Curriculum Pack →Frequently Asked Questions about Year 2 PSHE
What is PSHE in Year 2?
PSHE stands for Personal, Social, Health and Economic education. In Year 2, PSHE helps children develop their understanding of relationships, feelings and wellbeing, healthy choices, safety, decision making, money and the wider world. Children can begin to consider these ideas in greater depth and think more carefully about how their choices and behaviour affect themselves and others.
What should be taught in Year 2 PSHE?
A Year 2 PSHE curriculum can include friendships and relationships, feelings and emotional wellbeing, healthy lifestyles, staying safe, recognising and managing risk, decision making, money and social awareness. Learning should build on children's experiences in Year 1 while encouraging greater independence, reflection and responsibility.
What are some suitable Year 2 PSHE activities?
Year 2 PSHE activities can include stories, discussion, role play, games, sorting and ranking tasks, simple dilemmas and scenarios, problem-solving activities and opportunities for personal reflection. Activities based on situations children might encounter in everyday life can be particularly useful for helping them apply their PSHE learning.
What are typical Year 2 PSHE learning objectives?
Year 2 PSHE learning objectives will vary according to the topic, but children might learn to identify features of healthy friendships, recognise and manage different emotions, explain how everyday choices can affect their health, identify potential risks, make thoughtful decisions and develop their understanding of money, responsibilities and communities.
How can I teach relationships and friendships in Year 2?
Year 2 PSHE lessons can explore what makes a healthy friendship, kindness and respect, including others, dealing with disagreements and recognising how actions can affect other people's feelings. Stories, role play and fictional scenarios give children opportunities to consider relationship problems and possible solutions in a safe and accessible way.
How can Year 2 PSHE support children's emotional wellbeing?
PSHE can help Year 2 children develop their emotional vocabulary and recognise that people may respond differently to the same situation. Lessons can explore ways to manage difficult feelings, develop confidence and self-awareness and help children understand when they might need support from a trusted adult.
How do RSE and PSHE fit together in Year 2?
In Year 2, learning about relationships can be taught as part of a school's wider PSHE provision. Children can explore age-appropriate themes such as families, friendships, kindness and respect, personal boundaries and asking for help alongside wider PSHE learning about health, wellbeing, safety and the world around them.
What is included in PlanBee's Year 2 PSHE lesson plans?
PlanBee's Year 2 PSHE schemes of work include detailed lesson plans, teaching slides, differentiated activities and printable resources. Lessons are structured to help children explore important PSHE topics through discussion, scenarios and engaging activities while saving teachers valuable planning time.
Does PlanBee have a complete Year 2 PSHE curriculum?
Yes. PlanBee's Year 2 PSHE resources form part of our complete KS1 PSHE curriculum, with six schemes of work for Year 2. Teachers can use individual schemes alongside their existing provision or access the complete programme through PlanBee's KS1 PSHE Curriculum Pack.
