Year 5 PSHE: Autumn 1 worksheet

“Who am I now?” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 5 PSHE unit “PSHE: Autumn 1”, for children aged 9 to 10, and takes about 22 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 1 to 6 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Who am I now?

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 5 · PSHE · about 22 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can describe who I am using values, strengths and how I have changed.

A Look back3 min

1.
The feelings scale runs from sunny to stormy. Which end shows a calm, happy feeling?
sunnystormy
2.
In a class traffic-light code, red means stop and get help, and yellow means slow down and check. Which colour means it is safe to carry on?
greenyellowred
3.
This chain shows how a feeling can lead to an action. Which word fits the empty middle box?
ThinkSleepHide

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ola is in Year 5. She sorts four sentences about herself into two groups: how she looks or what she does, and what kind of person she is.

A kitchen table with a blank sheet of paper, a pencil and a glass of water

Watch me

Ola sorts four sentences about herself.

‘I have brown eyes’ and ‘I like swimming’ are looks or activities.

‘I am patient with my little brother’ and ‘I tell the truth’ are character, so they go in the other column.

Now you

1.
Sort these four sentences into the table. Write each one in the right column.
I have long hairI enjoy cyclingI am honest with my friendsI care about helping younger children
Looks or activities Character or values

C Your turn8 min

Match, sort, choose, then write.

1.
Join each strength to an example of it.
curiouskindbravefair
gives everyone a turnasks lots of questionsshares a snack with a friendtries something new when nervous
2.
A value is a quality you think matters, like kindness. Put each card in the right column.
honestymy shoe sizefairnesshaving a pet dog
A value Not a value
3.
Ola says: ‘I always want to know why the sky goes dark at night.’ Which strength word fits best?
curiousbravekindfair
4.
Write one way you are different now from Year 4. Say what you can do or believe now.

Say it out loud: Which of your answers would have been different if you had answered them in Year 4? Say why.

D Spot the mistake3 min

A small young tree growing beside an old tree in a garden

Sam says: “I was born this way. My personality can never change, so I cannot grow.”

1.
Why is Sam wrong? Write one reason.

E Think deeper4 min

A park path with a signpost pointing two ways

1.
A friend says: ‘Once you know your best strengths, you have finished becoming who you are.’ Do you agree? Explain why.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Who am I now? · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. sunny If your child picks stormy, ask what the weather looks like on a calm day. Feelings can be read a bit like weather.

2. green

3. Think

B

1. Character or values: I am honest with my friends, I care about helping younger children · Looks or activities: I have long hair, I enjoy cycling If your child puts a character sentence under looks or activities, ask: does this say what you are like inside, or what you look like or do?

C

1. curious → asks lots of questions; kind → shares a snack with a friend; brave → tries something new when nervous; fair → gives everyone a turn If a line goes to the wrong example, read that example aloud and ask your child which strength it shows. Then join it again.

2. A value: honesty, fairness · Not a value: my shoe size, having a pet dog If your child puts shoe size or the pet dog under value, ask: is this a quality you try to live by, or a fact about you?

3. curious

4. Look for: A specific change in what the child can do or believes, compared with last year.

D

1. Look for: Identity changes as you grow, through choices and experiences, so Sam can keep growing. If your child agrees with Sam, ask what they did differently this year compared with last year. Growth is usually easy to find once they look.

E

1. Look for: Disagrees with the friend, saying strengths are tools for growing and identity keeps developing.

Words to use

Say“Which of your sentences tells me what you care about, and which tells me what you look like or do?”

Instead of“Tell them who they are, or say that they are too young to know.”

After the sheet

At home, ask your child to draw a quick identity map on the back of an envelope: a name in the middle and four lines out (values, strengths, relationships, how I have grown). Keep it, then make a new one at the end of Year 5 and compare. If your child wants to talk about worries, Childline is 0800 1111 and the NSPCC helpline for grown-ups is 0808 800 5000.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Event, appraisal, feeling(with a plan)
Pausing Under Pressure(with a plan)
Three kinds of empathy(with a plan)
Why Messages Get Misread(with a plan)
Friendship Maps(with a plan)

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