Year 4 PSHE

Every Year 4 PSHE lesson

In the order they are taught. 36 lessons.

1. Who Am I in Year 4? Revisiting Identity Through Values, Strengths, and Personal Growth Since Year 3
2. Emotions as Information: How Feelings Signal Needs and How to Read the Message
3. Regulating Emotions Under Pressure: Practising the RULER Approach in Real Scenarios
4. What Does Respect Really Look Like? Exploring Mutual Respect in Friendships, Family, and Online
5. Giving and Receiving Feedback: How to Communicate Honestly Without Hurting Others
6. When Friendships Get Complicated: Navigating Loyalty, Exclusion, and Social Pressure
7. Healthy vs Unhealthy Relationships: Using the Relationship Spectrum
8. Understanding Puberty: What Changes Happen and Why — A Deeper Look for Year 4
9. Puberty, Emotions, and the Changing Brain: Why Feelings Can Feel Bigger as We Grow
10. Body Image and Media: How Advertising, Social Media, and Filters Distort What 'Normal' Looks Like
11. What Is Consent? Practising Saying Yes, No, and Maybe in Everyday Situations
12. Online Safety: Deepfakes, Manipulated Images, and How to Question What We See
13. Managing Screen Time: Designing My Own Technology Rules Using Evidence About Wellbeing
14. What Is Physical Health? Mapping the Links Between Exercise, Diet, Sleep, and Mood
15. Alcohol, Tobacco, and Vaping: Why People Start and What They Do to Your Body
16. Peer Pressure and Saying No: Rehearsing Refusal Skills With Real-Life Scripts
17. What Is Mental Health? The Spectrum and Stigma
18. Understanding Depression and Low Mood: What It Is, What It Isn't, and How to Get Help
19. Building My Wellbeing Toolkit: Personalising the Five Ways to Wellbeing
20. Resilience in Real Life: How People Have Overcome Adversity and What We Can Learn
21. Income, Wealth, and Saving: Understanding Money
22. Budgeting for Real: Planning a Year 4 Class Trip With a Fixed Budget and Competing Priorities
23. Borrowing, Interest, and Debt: Why Borrowing £100 Can Cost Much More Than £100
24. Advert Detectives: How Brands Target Children
25. What Is Prejudice? Understanding How Stereotypes Become Harmful Assumptions
26. Race and Racism in the UK: Why It Is Wrong and How to Stand Up Against It
27. Diversity in Britain: How Migration Has Shaped UK Food, Music, Language, and Communities Since 1948
28. How Does Democracy Work? Parliament, Elections, Voting Rights, and Who Gets Left Out
29. Local Government and Community Decision-Making: How Councils Work and How Citizens Influence Them
30. Climate Change: Causes, Effects, and What We Can Do
31. Taking Action on Climate: What Can a Year 4 Child Actually Do?
32. Human Rights Around the World: Where the UNCRC Is Upheld, Where It Is Violated, and Why
33. What Is Justice? Exploring Fairness, Punishment, and Restorative Approaches
34. SMART Goals and Implementation Intentions: Planning Something That Genuinely Matters to Me
35. Ready for Year 5: Looking Back, Looking Forward
36. Year 4 PSHE Synthesis: Revisiting Identity, Relationships, Health, Money, and Citizenship Across the Full Year

Common questions

What does Year 4 PSHE cover?

Year 4 PSHE runs to 36 lessons across a 36 week year, covering identity, value, character strength, growth, emotion, amygdala and more.

How many PSHE lessons are in Year 4?

36 lessons, sequenced in teaching order across the school year.

How old is a child in Year 4?

Children in Year 4 are 8 to 9 years old during the school year in England and Wales.