Description
Becoming Responsible, Confident and Ethical Citizens
Primary PSHE | Year 5 | 12 Fully Editable Lessons
Overview
Round off Year 5 with a unit that empowers children to step up as confident, thoughtful citizens. From developing essential learning and life skills to exploring cultural awareness, prejudice, substance safety, and basic first aid, this term challenges pupils to think critically about the world around them and their role within it. Ambitious, engaging, and fully statutory-aligned, this Cre8tive Resources unit is the perfect launchpad for the transition to Year 6 and beyond.
What’s Covered
- Successful learning — strategies for effective study and self-management
- Recognising personal achievements — building confidence through reflection on success
- Actions have consequences — understanding long-term impact of choices
- Developing cultural awareness — exploring and celebrating diversity in Britain and the world
- The media and prejudice — critically examining how media shapes attitudes
- Personal organisation — practical skills for managing time and responsibilities
- Public speaking — developing confidence to communicate ideas to an audience
- Alcohol and tobacco — age-appropriate, evidence-based substance awareness education
- Responsible medicine use — understanding when and how to use medicine safely
- Basic first aid — practical, potentially life-saving skills
- Consolidation and Assessment
What’s Included
- 12 fully editable PowerPoint lessons
- Teacher guidance notes with substance education and first aid support
- Literacy key term links
- Over 45 minutes of flexible activities per lesson
- Medium Term Planning document
- Optional student work booklet
- Parent Information letters
- Statutory RSHE documentation
- Student revision quiz
- Bonus and extension resources
Curriculum Mapping
- DfE Statutory Health Education — drugs, alcohol, and first aid (July 2025)
- PSHE Association — Living in the Wider World strand
- British Values — individual liberty, mutual respect, rule of law
- KCSIE requirements
- Ofsted Personal Development framework
Ideal For
Year 5 teachers wanting to finish the year with an ambitious, skills-focused unit that builds genuine life competencies alongside statutory PSHE content.
Suggested Tags
Year 5 PSHE Citizenship, Alcohol Tobacco Year 5, First Aid Primary, Cultural Awareness KS2, Media Literacy PSHE, Public Speaking Year 5, Statutory PSHE 2026, Cre8tive Resources, Ethical Citizens KS2, Prejudice Awareness Primary
