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Year 3 PSHE

Year 3 PSHE runs to 36 lessons across a 36 week year, for children aged 7 to 8 in Key Stage 2. Every lesson is listed below in teaching order.

The vocabulary a child meets this year includes self-concept, character strengths, virtue, resilience, situation, thought, anxiety, cognitive triangle, cortisol, grounding, cognitive reframing, parasympathetic nervous system.

We wrote these lessons ourselves. Oak does not publish PSHE, so the sequence, the content and the checks are all ours.

Every Year 3 PSHE lesson

In the order they are taught. 36 lessons.

  1. Who Am I Now? Character Strengths and New Challenges in Year 3
  2. Why Do I Feel This Way? Linking Emotions to Thoughts, Body Signals, and Situations
  3. Emotion Regulation Toolbox: Breathing, Grounding, and Reframing
  4. Empathy vs Sympathy: Understanding the Difference and Why It Changes Relationships
  5. Active Listening in Action: Using Verbal and Non-Verbal Skills to Show We Really Hear Someone
  6. Friendships Under Pressure: When Friends Change and How to Manage Shifting Relationships
  7. When Disagreements Turn Difficult: Practising the STOP–THINK–ACT Framework for Conflict
  8. What Makes a Relationship Healthy? Identifying Respect, Trust, and Equality in Friendships
  9. Families and Households: Understanding Different Structures and What Makes a Family Work
  10. Digital Relationships: How Online Friendships Are Similar to and Different From Face-to-Face Ones
  11. Is It Really Private? Understanding What Personal Data Means and How It Is Collected
  12. Cyberbullying vs Conflict: Recognising When Online Unkindness Crosses a Line
  13. Persuasion Techniques Unwrapped: How Social Media Algorithms, Likes, and Influencers Shape Choices
  14. My Unique Body: Puberty — What to Expect and Why Bodies Change at Different Times
  15. My Body, My Rules: Understanding Consent and Boundaries
  16. Tobacco, Alcohol, and Why People Use Them: Understanding Risk Without Glamorising
  17. Why Do People Take Risks With Their Health? Investigating Peer Pressure and Decision-Making
  18. What Is Mental Health? Understanding the Spectrum From Flourishing to Struggling
  19. Understanding Anxiety: Recognising Worry, Fear, and the Difference Between Helpful and Unhelpful Anxiety
  20. Building a Wellbeing Routine: Using the Five Ways to Wellbeing With Weekly Planning
  21. Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset: How Believing in Change Affects What We Achieve
  22. Where Does Money Come From and Where Does It Go? Exploring Income, Tax, and Public Services
  23. Needs, Wants, and Trade-offs: Making Spending Decisions When Resources Are Limited
  24. Designing a Budget: Planning a Class Event With a Fixed Spending Limit
  25. Borrowing and Debt: What Credit Means, How Interest Works, and Why Debt Can Grow
  26. Stereotypes in Britain: How Assumptions About Groups of People Can Limit What We Achieve
  27. Britain's Many Cultures: How Immigration Has Shaped UK Food, Language, and Life
  28. What Is Discrimination? Recognising Unfair Treatment and Knowing What to Do About It
  29. Bystander or Upstander: What Happens When We Speak Up
  30. Our Responsibilities to the Planet: Climate Change, Carbon Footprints, and Local Action
  31. Global Citizenship: Understanding Fair Trade, Supply Chains, and Our Choices as Consumers
  32. How Laws Are Made and Who Makes Them: Understanding Parliament, MPs, and Democratic Representation
  33. Rights and Responsibilities as a Global Citizen: The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
  34. Setting Goals That Stick: SMART Targets and If-Then Plans
  35. Moving On: How to Handle the End of Year 3
  36. Year 3 PSHE Synthesis: What Have You Learned This Year?

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Common questions

What does Year 3 PSHE cover?
Year 3 PSHE runs to 36 lessons across a 36 week year, covering self-concept, character strengths, virtue, resilience, situation, thought and more.
How many PSHE lessons are in Year 3?
36 lessons, sequenced in teaching order across the school year.
How old is a child in Year 3?
Children in Year 3 are 7 to 8 years old during the school year in England and Wales.