Healthy Relationships PSHE

NEW 10 HOURS- A selection of brand new 2026/27 EC Publishing PSHE lessons created for the new 2026 KS3 DfE / PSHE Association guidance for KS3 Healthy Relationships. Perfect for young people navigating our challenging modern world. There are 10 hours of total content as two 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 £25.

1. Marriage + Civil Partnerships. For new RSHE 2026 guidelines (detailed on lesson plan) all editable. A lesson all about the benefits of marriage, why people get married, the history of marriage and how it should only ever be freely entered into. Also explores the legal rights of married couples and those in civil partnerships and how co-habiting couples or people who have non-binding marriages are not entitled to those rights.

2. 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.

3. Healthy Safe Relationships / Positive Relationships - NEW 2026 RSHE GUIDELINES COMPLIANT (see lesson plan included). A detailed, differentiated and editable PSHE lesson which meets all the new RSHE 2026 guidelines (see lesson plan) and will last you one 60 minute lesson. The lesson introduces the concept of healthy and unhealthy relationships, what makes a healthy relationship, how we can recognise them and much more. Includes lesson plan.

4. Family : Types of Family PSHE - 2 HOURS PSHE MEETS NEW 2026 GUIDELINES (see lesson plan included for references) - Different Families + Committed, Stable Relationships PSHE lesson exploring different, stable family relationships and roles - including single parenting, same-sex parenting, adoption, extended families and other non-traditional family units. Suitable for new 2026 RSHE guidance. The lesson also explores different long-term commitments (marriage, civil partnerships) that couples often enter into when starting a family. Best suited to KS3, all editable. Lesson plan included.

5. Romantic Relationships First Romance - NEW 2026 RSHE guidance compliant (see lesson plan included for references) - Love and Romance PSHE (falling in love, early romantic relationships and romantic feelings) PSHE / RSE lesson. Created in 2026 to cover both the DfE’s new guidelines. Everything is editable. engaging and easy to follow, with a variety of activities, from scaffolded written tasks, clip tasks, creative tasks, active tasks, case study analysis and much more. Lesson plan included. Students will investigate what it feels like to fall in love and have romantic feelings, what exactly is going on in the brain to cause us to feel this way, how it can present problems, make us act differently, and how to handle feelings appropriately. They will examine real life case studies from teenagers who have fallen in love, the problems this has caused them and how they have coped with hurt and rejection as well as happiness.

6. LGBT + Diverse Relationships PSHE - NEW 2026 DfE RSHE GUIDELINES COMPLIANT (see lesson plan included for details)- This lesson focuses on what all good relationships have in common and how, no matter our sexuality, we’re all seeking the same universal qualities in a good, long-term partner. The lesson also examines the additional challenges some members of the LGBT+ community have to face in order to achieve this, such as (depending on a person’s background), cultural, family or religious expectations. There is also a focus on how dating apps (and those tailored to LGBT+ individuals in particular) don’t always prioritise long-term relationship seekers and why this causes further issues for those after a committed relationship.

7. 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.

8. 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.

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