Friends and Friendship PSHE
NEW 12 HOURS- A selection of brand new 2026/27 EC Publishing PSHE lessons created for the new 2026 KS3 DfE / PSHE Association guidance for managing and navigating healthy friendships at school, in the wider world, online and throughout life. Perfect for young people navigating our challenging modern world. There are 12 hours of total content as four of the lessons are doubles, each coming with detailed easy to follow PowerPoint, worksheets, clips, activities and info packs. Made by a wonderful team of consultants and teachers who are, above all, humans, not AI (we write and check every word and fact and are happy to stake our company reputation on what we produce). This is a saver pack - bought separately the lessons would total £22.
CONTENTS:
1) Friendship , Friends , Friendship Fall-outs - PSHE FOR NEW 2026 RSHE GUIDANCE - coverage cited in lesson plan (included). Two-hour friendship / being a good friend and managing fall-outs PSHE / RSE lesson. Everything is editable. engaging and easy to follow, with a variety of activities, from scaffolded written tasks, clip tasks, Students will investigate what personal qualities we need to be a good friend, how to differentiate good, genuine friendship groups from toxic ones as well as how we can be a good friend online, when our friends need us most.
2) Anti bullying Online Safety Group Chats - 2 HOURS 2026 RSHE GUIDELINES COMPLIANT (see lesson plan included for details) online safety / social media bullying lesson all about the problems teens face from group chats and online messaging services. The lesson focuses on WhatsApp and the problems caused by teens using the service before the legal joining age of sixteen. Many issues are explored in detail, such as mob mentality leading to cyber-bullying in large group chats, the T+Cs of messaging services (especially how they own any content you post and the possible repercussions of this) as well as practical advice on how to distance yourself from online trouble and legal issues.
3) Trust PSHE - An RSHE lesson created to cover the new DfE 2026 guidelines for KS3. Students will investigate what we mean by trust, how to recognise when we can trust someone and will investigate what they would do in different situations by exploring real-life case studies. All answers are included. The lesson is entirely editable. It covers the DfE new 2026 guidance (see lesson plan) and will last you one hour. Lesson plan included.
4) Friendship, meeting new people and trusting our instincts - PSHE lesson for 2026 all about how it can be important to trust our instincts / intuition if ‘something feels off’. Best suited to UKS3, KS4 or KS5 - although nothing unsuitable for younger secondary students. Students will explore what it means to trust your gut if you get a bad feeling about a person, why we have these feelings and how they have protected people in the past. They will watch clips, investigate case studies and explore how to recognise unsafe situations and examine what they would do in different situations where some danger could be present.
5) Peer Pressure and Influence - TWO HOURS - meets new 2026 RSHE DfE Guidelines (see lesson plan for references) PSHE lesson all about peer pressure and peer influence. In this lesson students will discover the psychology behind peer pressure and peer influence - why we feel so inclined to act the same way as our peers. After learning this, they will explore many clear strategies which have been proven to work to avoid being pressured into situations by their peers which they don’t feel comfortable with. The lesson includes case studies, clip tasks, creative tasks, analysis and literacy tasks and much more. Created for KS3 but could be used as a reminder for KS4. Includes lesson plan.
6) Conflict + Relationships PSHE - 2 HOURS 2026 NEW RSHE GUIDELINES COMPLIANT Conflict Management PSHE lesson. In this lesson students will explore what makes a discussion turn into an argument and how we can turn arguments around before they escalate into conflict. Students will examine a wide variety of case studies and explore expert advice from a Harvard Professor on conflict management, before actively trying out some conflict management role play themselves. Includes case studies, creative tasks, clip tasks, literacy tasks and much more.
7) Anti Bullying PSHE Lesson - FOR NEW 2026 RSHE GUIDANCE New edition, all new content. A detailed, differentiated and editable PSHE lesson which meets all the latest 2026 PSHE guidelines (see lesson plan included) and will last you around 60-90 minutes if all tasks completed. No previous knowledge needed to teach - all information included and a detailed lesson plan. Activities are scaffolded, there is a detailed and colourful PowerPoint, clip tasks with questions and answers, worksheets, creative task, match-up tasks, signposting to further help agencies and charities, clear outcomes and also literacy and partnered activities. Could also be used in Tutor Time or during anti-bullying week.
8) Kindness + Empathy PSHE- 2026 RSHE guidance compliant (see lesson plan included for details). A lesson aimed at KS3 investigating why kindness is so important, the science behind the benefits of kindness, how kindness actually spreads more kindness, the evolutionary origins of kindness and finally the difference between empathy and sympathy, as well as their importance in exercising kindness. This has been created to cover the DfE new 2026 RSHE guidance and will last you one hour. Everything is editable and a lesson plan is included.
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