Description
Growing Up Safely: Physical, Emotional and Digital Wellbeing
Primary PSHE | Year 5 | 12 Fully Editable Lessons
Overview
This Year 5 PSHE unit is the essential guide to growing up well. Covering puberty, menstruation, digital safety, personal safety, harassment, and strategies for emotional resilience, it prepares pupils for the physical and emotional changes they are experiencing or will soon face. Developed in consultation with NHS professionals and safeguarding specialists, this unit handles sensitive topics with accuracy, confidence, and the care that children deserve.
What’s Covered
- Building confidence — practical strategies for developing self-belief
- Growth mindset — applying resilience thinking to real-life challenges
- Puberty (continued) — comprehensive, gender-inclusive puberty education
- Menstruation — accurate, supportive, destigmatising education about periods
- Public health and hygiene — understanding hygiene needs during puberty
- E-Safety and harmful online content — identifying and avoiding harmful material online
- E-Safety strategies — practical tools for staying safe in digital spaces
- Personal safety — knowing how to keep safe in a range of situations
- Harassment and violence — understanding what these are and why they are never acceptable
- Reporting and seeking help — knowing who to turn to and how to speak up
- Consolidation and Assessment
What’s Included
- 12 fully editable PowerPoint lessons
- Teacher guidance with NHS-informed puberty and menstruation content
- E-Safety content aligned to KCSIE
- Safeguarding notes throughout
- Literacy key term links
- Over 45 minutes of activities per lesson
- Medium Term Planning document
- Optional student work booklet
- Parent Information letters
- Student revision quiz
Curriculum Mapping
- DfE Statutory Health Education — puberty and menstruation requirements (July 2025)
- KCSIE online safety requirements
- PSHE Association core themes
- NHS health education guidelines
- Ofsted Personal Development framework
Ideal For
Year 5 teachers and PSHE leads who need a confident, evidence-informed unit that covers puberty and online safety with the accuracy and sensitivity the topics demand.
Suggested Tags
Year 5 PSHE Puberty, Menstruation Primary, E-Safety Year 5, Personal Safety Upper KS2, Harassment Awareness Primary, Digital Wellbeing KS2, Statutory PSHE 2026, Cre8tive Resources, Growing Up PSHE, Online Safety Year 5
