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Year 6 PSHE

Year 6 PSHE runs to 36 lessons across a 36 week year, for children aged 10 to 11 in Key Stage 2. Every lesson is listed below in teaching order.

The vocabulary a child meets this year includes identity, self-concept, character strength, signature strength, VIA Classification, cognitive appraisal, emotional granularity, affect labelling, primary appraisal, secondary appraisal, amygdala, cortisol.

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

Every Year 6 PSHE lesson

In the order they are taught. 36 lessons.

  1. Who Am I in Year 6? Mapping Identity, Character Strengths, and How I've Grown Since Year 5
  2. Emotions as Signals: Using the Cognitive Appraisal Model to Make Sense of Complex Year 6 Feelings
  3. Regulation in High-Stakes Moments: Applying the STOP–BREATHE–CHOOSE Framework
  4. What Do I Actually Value? Clarifying Personal Values and Using Them to Make Decisions Under Pressure
  5. Advanced Listening and Communication: How Tone, Timing, and Non-Verbal Signals Shape Every Conversation
  6. Friendship Dynamics: Power, Loyalty, and Healthy Belonging
  7. Resolving Real Conflicts: Practising Restorative Conversation Skills for Complex Year 6 Friendship Disputes
  8. What Makes an Online Friendship Real? Evaluating Trust, Safety, and Authenticity in Digital Relationships
  9. Puberty, Brain Development, and Why Emotions Feel More Intense in Year 6 Than They Did in Year 4
  10. Real or Filtered? Body Image, Social Media, and What You're Actually Worth
  11. Consent and Boundaries: Voice, Images, Privacy, and Digital Sharing
  12. Spaced Retrieval: Identity, Relationships, Puberty, and Online Safety — Connecting Learning From Weeks 1–11
  13. Physical Health in Year 6: Mapping Evidence-Based Links Between Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Academic Performance
  14. Alcohol: What the Science Says About Why People Start and How to Stay Safe
  15. Vaping, E-Cigarettes, and the Limits of Evidence: Separating Fact From Marketing in a Fast-Moving Field
  16. Drug Classification and Risk: How UK Law Categorises Drugs and Why People Make Risky Choices
  17. What Keeps Us Mentally Healthy? Investigating the Five Ways to Wellbeing
  18. The Anxiety Cycle: Why Avoidance Makes Things Worse
  19. My Personalised Wellbeing Strategy: Designing a Year 6 Wellbeing Plan Using Evidence and Self-Knowledge
  20. Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth: What Research Says About Bouncing Forward, Not Just Back
  21. Peer Pressure: Why Even Smart People Conform — and How to Hold Your Ground
  22. How the UK Economy Works: Earning, Taxation, National Insurance, and Public Services
  23. Banking, Interest, and Inflation: How Money Grows, Shrinks, and What It Means to Manage It Wisely
  24. Designing a Real Budget: Planning a Year 6 Leaving Event With a Fixed Budget and Competing Priorities
  25. Consumer Credit, Debt, and 'Buy Now Pay Later': How Borrowing Works and Why the True Cost Is Often Hidden
  26. Fairness, Prejudice and Discrimination: What They Mean and How to Treat Everyone Fairly
  27. Britain's Diverse Communities: How Post-1945 Migration Has Shaped UK Culture, Food, Language, and National Life
  28. How Democracy Works in the UK: Parliament, Elections, Devolution, and Citizen Power
  29. Your Digital Footprint: Reputation, Privacy, and Your Data Rights
  30. Media Literacy: How to Spot Bias, Misinformation, and Propaganda
  31. Democracy Under Pressure: Disinformation, Echo Chambers, and Low Engagement
  32. Looking After Our Local Environment: Waste, Biodiversity, and What One Community Can Actually Do
  33. Rights, Responsibilities, and Justice: How UK Law Protects Children and What Citizens Owe Each Other
  34. Goal-Setting for Secondary School: WOOP, Habit Stacking, and Implementation Intentions
  35. Preparing for Secondary School: Managing Uncertainty, Building Confidence, and Saying Goodbye to Year 6
  36. Year 6 PSHE Synthesis: Who You Are, How You Relate, and Where You're Headed

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Common questions

What does Year 6 PSHE cover?
Year 6 PSHE runs to 36 lessons across a 36 week year, covering identity, self-concept, character strength, signature strength, VIA Classification, cognitive appraisal and more.
How many PSHE lessons are in Year 6?
36 lessons, sequenced in teaching order across the school year.
How old is a child in Year 6?
Children in Year 6 are 10 to 11 years old during the school year in England and Wales.