In this five-lesson PSHE scheme, your KS1 class will learn all about making friends. The scheme is fully aligned with the PSHE Association objectives and includes a lesson on online safety.

In the first lesson, your Year 1 class will explore what makes a good friendship and will design WANTED posters for an ideal friend! They will then learn how to resolve disagreements between friends successfully and will use drama to empathise with a child going through friendship difficulties. The focus of the third lesson is on the difference between physical pain and emotional pain. In lesson 4, children find out what to do if a friendship is making them unhappy. They learn strategies for solving difficulties and equip themselves with the tools they need if they need to ask for help. The final lesson looks at hurtful behaviour online and teaches children to always behave kindly when using the internet.

Everything you need to teach these five engaging PSHE lessons is included! For each lesson, there is a detailed lesson plan with differentiated activities, a high-quality slideshow and all the printable resources required.

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.

Why not check out this FREE Friendship Memory Box Template which is a lovely way for children to show their friends how much they mean to them, and to remind them of all the great times they have shared together.

What makes a good friendship?

This PSHE KS1 lesson begins with children exploring why people have friends.

They then sort statements which describe a good friend or a bad friend. Your Year 1 class then develop a list of qualities that a good friend has. In the main activity, children create WANTED posters for an ideal friend. Alternatively, children draw around their hand and draw a friend in the palm before writing a reason why they are a good friend at the end of each finger. In the plenary, children use drama to explore how to help a lonely child.

Everything you need to teach this PSHE KS1 lesson on rules is included in the pack. There is a detailed lesson plan with differentiated activities, an engaging slideshow and all the printable resources required.

View Lesson 1

Solving disagreements between friends

In this PSHE KS1 lesson, children look at various scenarios in which friends have fallen out.

They learn how to resolve disagreements and what it means to negotiate. Children rehearse how to ask an adult for help if they are unable to resolve the disagreement themselves. Children then look at why hurting back does not help a situation in which two friends have fallen out. Drama is used to explore how a girl who has fallen out with her friend could be feeling.

This PSHE KS1 pack is packed with everything you will need to teach this lesson. There is a high-quality slideshow, a detailed lesson plan and all the printable resources needed.

View Lesson 2

Physical pain vs. emotional pain

In this PSHE KS1 lesson, children are taught the difference between emotional pain and physical pain.

They look at various scenarios and decide whether the hurtful behaviour has caused emotional and/or physical pain. They explore this further in the main activity. At the end of the lesson, children explore how the occasional falling out between friends is different to the intentional, regular targeting of an individual associated with bullying. Children discuss what they would do if they saw someone being bullied.

Everything you need to teach this PSHE KS1 lesson on physical and emotional pain is included in the pack. There is a detailed lesson plan with differentiated activities, an engaging slideshow and all the printable resources required.

View Lesson 3

What to do if a friendship is making you unhappy

What might a friend do to make you feel unhappy? That is the opening question of this PSHE KS1 lesson which focuses on helping children know what to do when a friendship goes wrong.

Children look at various scenarios and look at how to be assertive when stating how someone's behaviour is hurting them and how to ask for help from a trusted adult. A fun treasure hunt activity on the playground allows children to discuss whether responses to hurtful behaviour are good or bad choices.

This PSHE KS1 pack is packed with everything you will need to teach this lesson. There is a high-quality slideshow, a detailed lesson plan and all the printable resources needed.

View Lesson 4

Hurtful behaviour online

With children at primary school now regularly using the internet on devices and tablets, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to know what to do if they experience hurtful behaviour online is essential.

In this lesson, children read a story about a boy called Sam who is experiencing hurtful behaviour online. They help him make good choices to resolve the situation. In the main activity children either create posters teaching others to be kind online or play a board game in which kind online behaviour helps them win!

Everything you need to teach this PSHE KS1 lesson on online safety is included in the pack. There is a detailed lesson plan with differentiated activities, an engaging slideshow and all the printable resources required.

View Lesson 5

This Year 1 PSHE Knowledge Organiser has been created to complement our PSHE Healthy Relationships 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.

View Knowledge Organiser