Life Lessons is Transforming Primary PSHE

Here at Life Lessons we believe PSHE is the most important learning children can experience. It is where they develop essential life skills, enabling them to leave education able to: face the challenges of an increasingly complex world, take advantage of opportunities presented to them and thrive personally, socially and professionally.

So, having a PSHE curriculum that puts these life skills at the heart of it and presents learning in a way that empowers young people to take ownership is going to deliver on these outcomes in a way no other resource has before.

Life Lessons will empower your young people to leave education excited to experience the world and thrive in whatever they want to do. 

Evidence-Based

The Life Lessons Primary PSHE approach follows three evidence-based premises: 

Skills based learning –  Our curriculum explicitly links learning to ‘life lessons’ through a carefully planned progression in important key skills. With carefully planned for progression in a range of key skills, our curriculum explicitly links learning to ‘Life Lessons’ – ensuring children are able to apply classroom activities to everyday experiences and skills, bringing learning to life. 

Narrative and Storytelling – The unique and captivating media used in our lessons enables learners to explore abstract and sensitive concepts in a memorable and safe way. Seeing the world and exploring experiences through the eyes of a range of diverse, familiar and relatable peers allows children to consider different perspectives, build empathy, and enhance their language skills by listening to and retelling stories.

Peer-based learning – Driving learning through sharing, discussing and collaborating increases the opportunity for connections. Hearing and contributing to discussion with a diverse range of peers through high quality videos and scaffolded resources, allows children to express their learning in their own way linked to their own experiences, as well as explicitly driving empathy and critical thinking.

Developing Key Life Skills

Through the Life Lessons approach you will secure outstanding development in key life skills:

Critical thinking – every lesson provides multiple opportunities for young people to hear, share and discuss a range of ideas. Children progressively become competent at seeing different points of view, using a range of sources, evaluating information and developing informed opinions that they can articulate clearly. 

Empathy – through a diverse and inclusive range of media, young people explore the full breadth of current, lived cultural, social and economical experiences in Britain. The discussion and understanding of these experiences are linked to the progression of empathy based skills such as respect, establishing boundaries and allieship. 

Emotional Awareness – emotional literacy is embedded through every single lesson in our curriculum. Through the use of engaging characters and narratives, children are able to explore the range of human emotional experience, exploring different perspectives and testing regulation strategies in safe environments to understand their own and others emotional responses. 

Positivity and purpose – framing learning in a way that presents the world as full of opportunities and adventures, encourages children to go into the world with optimism and excitement. Seeing challenges as opportunities, feeling empowered to evaluate risks and actively take safe action and having the resilience and aspiration to influence the world for the better! 

Over the next few months we will be exploring the research and evidence behind our approach and offering practical tips and guidance for you to deliver Life Lessons in your classroom. 

For more information about our Primary PSHE Curriculum and to access resources, please sign up to our newsletter and attend our exciting announcement event on the 18th March 2025. 

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