Y4 PSHE - Block 1

Me and My Relationships - Term 1

Unit Themes

  • Healthy relationships

  • Listening to feelings

  • Bullying

  • Assertive skills

Progressive content

Children will learn

Human machines

  • Demonstrate strategies for working on a collaborative task;

  • Define successful qualities of teamwork and collaboration.

Ok or not (part 1) ?

  • Explain what we mean by a ‘positive, healthy relationship’;

  • Describe some of the qualities that they admire in others.

Ok or not (part 2)?

  • Recognise that there are times when they might need to say 'no' to a friend;

  • Describe appropriate assertive strategies for saying 'no' to a friend.

An email from Harold

  • Describe 'good' and 'not so good' feelings and how feelings can affect our physical state;

  • Explain how different words can express the intensity of feelings.

Different feelings

  • Identify a wide range of feelings;

  • Recognise that different people can have different feelings in the same situation;

  • Explain how feelings can be linked to physical state.

Under pressure

  • Give examples of strategies to respond to being bullied, including what people can do and say;

  • Understand and give examples of who or where pressure to behave in an unhealthy, unacceptable or risky way might come from.

Valuing Difference - Term 2

Unit Themes

  • Recognising and celebrating difference (including religions and cultural difference)

  • Understanding and challenging stereotypes

Progressive content

Children will learn

Can you sort it?

  • Define the terms 'negotiation' and 'compromise';

  • Understand the need to manage conflict or differences and suggest ways of doing this, through negotiation and compromise.

What would you do?

  • List some of the ways that people are different to each other (including differences of race, gender, religion);

  • Recognise potential consequences of aggressive behaviour;

  • Suggest strategies for dealing with someone who is behaving aggressively.

The people we share our world with

  • List some of the ways in which people are different to each other (including ethnicity, gender, religious beliefs, customs and festivals);

  • Define the word respect and demonstrate ways of showing respect to others' differences.

Friend or acquaintance?

  • Recognise that they have different types of relationships with people they know (e.g. close family, wider family, friends, acquaintances);

  • Give examples of features of these different types of relationships, including how they influence what is shared. Adoption mentioned - cohort sensitivity maybe required.

Islands

  • Understand that they have the right to protect their personal body space;

  • Recognise how others' non-verbal signals indicate how they feel when people are close to their body space;

  • Suggest people they can talk to if they feel uncomfortable with other people's actions towards them.