Me You Us: KS2 PSHE Creative Programme

Three creative primary PSHE sessions on valuing your own idea, respecting someone else’s boundaries, and making something together.

Me, You, Us moves outwards. In the first session each pupil turns the same six shapes into something only they would have made. In the second they work in pairs, and nobody may add a mark to anybody else’s drawing without asking first - and “no” is a complete answer. In the third, small groups invent a new living species by combining one characteristic chosen by each member, so that the finished creature contains everybody.

Taught in order, each session prepares the next: you cannot respect somebody else’s idea until your own has been taken seriously.

Everything is offline and screen-free, and uses paper, pencils and felt-tip pens. No accounts, pupil names, photographs or uploads are needed at any point.

Curriculum links are quoted in full on page 3, including the statutory spoken language requirements that pupils “listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers” and “consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others”, and the Relationships Education outcome on “the importance of setting and respecting healthy boundaries in relationships”.

What’s included - 13 pages, print-ready PDF:

Teacher guidance for all three sessions, with timings, materials and grouping
Curriculum links (England): spoken language, Relationships Education, art and design
Adaptations for Years 1-2 and extensions for Years 5-6
Pupil sheet: Transform The Shapes
Cut-out dialogue cards for the paired permission work
Reflection questions and a key message for every session
Before-and-after class observation grid
Safe learning environment, ground rules and safeguarding guidance
Inclusion and SEND adaptations
Teacher reflection sheet

Ages 7-11 | 3 sessions of about 60 minutes | Screen-free | Low-cost materials

Written for ages 8-10, with a page of adaptations for Years 1-2 and a page of extensions for Years 5-6, so the same programme can be run across the primary range.

Assessment is at class level and is not a test: you complete the same five-indicator grid before the first session and after the third. Artistic ability is never assessed, and there is no finished example for pupils to copy.

Designed by Bahar Chirali, an artist and creative-education designer who ran an art-based children’s programme in Cyprus for around ten years before developing ART TO GROW for classroom use.

Independently produced classroom resource. Not reviewed, endorsed or accredited by the Department for Education or the PSHE Association.