Y4 PSHE - B2

Keeping Safe - Term 3

Unit Themes

  • Managing risk

  • Understanding the norms of drug use (cigarette and alcohol use)

  • Influences

  • Online safety

Progressive content

Children will learn

Danger, risk or hazard?

  • Define the terms 'danger', 'risk' and 'hazard' and explain the difference between them;

  • Identify situations which are either dangerous, risky or hazardous;

  • Suggest simple strategies for managing risk.

How dare you!


  • Define what is meant by the word 'dare';

  • Identify from given scenarios which are dares and which are not;

  • Suggest strategies for managing dares.

Keeping ourselves safe

  • Describe stages of identifying and managing risk;

  • Suggest people they can ask for help in managing risk.

Raisin challenge (2)

  • Understand that we can be influenced both positively and negatively;

  • Give examples of some of the consequences of behaving in an unacceptable, unhealthy or risky way.

Picture wise

  • Identify images that are safe/unsafe to share online;

  • Know and explain strategies for safe online sharing;

  • Understand and explain the implications of sharing images online without consent.

Medicines - check the label

  • Understand that medicines are drugs;

  • Explain safety issues for medicine use;

  • Suggest alternatives to taking a medicine when unwell;

  • Suggest strategies for limiting the spread of infectious diseases (e.g. hand-washing routines).

Knowing the norms

  • Understand some of the key risks and effects of smoking and drinking alcohol;

  • Understand that increasing numbers of young people are choosing not to smoke and that not all people drink alcohol (Social Norms theory).

Traffic lights

  • Identify strategies for keeping personal information safe online;

  • Describe safe behaviours when using communication technology.

Rights & Respect - Term 4

Unit Themes

  • Making a difference (different ways of helping others or the environment)

  • Media influence

  • Decisions about spending money

Progressive content

Children will learn

Who helps us stay healthy & safe?

  • Explain how different people in the school and local community help them stay healthy and safe;

  • Define what is meant by 'being responsible';

  • Describe the various responsibilities of those who help them stay healthy and safe;

  • Suggest ways they can help the people who keep them healthy and safe.

Its your right

  • Understand that humans have rights and also responsibilities;

  • Identify some rights and also responsibilities that come with these.

How do we make a difference

  • Understand the reason we have rules;

  • Suggest and engage with ways that they can contribute to the decision-making process in school (e.g. through pupil voice/school council);

  • Recognise that everyone can make a difference within a democratic process.

In the news

  • Define the word influence;

  • Recognise that reports in the media can influence the way they think about a topic;

  • Form and present their own opinions based on factual information and express or present these in a respectful and courteous manner.

Safety in numbers

  • Explain the role of the bystander and how it can influence bullying or other anti-social behaviour;

  • Recognise that they can play a role in influencing outcomes of situations by their actions.

Harold's expenses

  • Define the terms 'income' and 'expenditure';

  • List some of the items and services of expenditure in the school and in the home;

  • Prioritise items of expenditure in the home from most essential to least essential.

Why pay taxes?

  • Explain what is meant by the terms 'income tax', 'National Insurance' and 'VAT';

  • Understand how a payslip is laid out showing both pay and deductions;

  • Prioritise public services from most essential to least essential.