Let's Talk: PSHCE Curriculum - YEAR 5 ISSUES

Helping children talk, think, question and understand the world around them.

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Let’s Talk is a PSHCE curriculum approach designed to help primary-aged children explore, discuss and debate relevant issues that affect their lives, relationships and the world around them.  It now includes coverage to support schools in meeting the statutory RSE requirements in primary school.

Each individual Let’s Talk issue provides teachers with a ready-to-use resource centred around an engaging question or topic, creating opportunities for children to talk, think, question, listen and reflect.

The approach encourages children to think about issues from three perspectives:

ME – understanding themselves as individuals
US – considering their relationships with friends, family and their peers
OTHERS – thinking about how issues, choices and behaviours can affect other people and the wider community

WHAT DOES EACH ISSUE INCLUDE?

Each individual issue provides a clear starting point for meaningful classroom discussion and includes:

• A carefully selected, age-appropriate text

• A realistic scenario linked to the issue

• A dilemma or key question to encourage deeper thinking

• Key vocabulary

• Structured opportunities for discussion and debate

• Practical activities

• Opportunities for children to work individually, in pairs, in groups and as a whole class

There is no expectation that learning should be dominated by written work. Instead, the emphasis is on developing children's confidence to express their ideas, listen to different viewpoints, explain their thinking and engage in thoughtful discussion.

PSHCE THROUGH TALK, THINKING AND REAL-LIFE CONTEXTS

The Let’s Talk approach helps teachers create a safe and purposeful environment in which children can explore subjects that may affect them now or in the future.

Topics across the wider Let’s Talk collection include friendships, families, emotions, relationships, online safety, discrimination, peer pressure, resilience, identity, responsibility, prejudice, money, democracy, drugs and the environment.

Whether you are looking to address a particular issue with your class, supplement your existing PSHCE provision or try the Let’s Talk approach before investing in the complete curriculum, individual issues provide a flexible and accessible way to bring meaningful PSHCE discussion into the classroom.

PLEASE NOTE

This product is for the individual Let’s Talk issue shown on this page only.

It does not include the complete EYFS–Year 6 Let’s Talk curriculum, whole-school vocabulary overview or termly parent newsletters. These additional resources are included when purchasing the Let’s Talk PSHCE Curriculum as a bundle.

WANT TO SEE IT IN ACTION?

You can access two free ‘issues’ / units
Year 2 Issue 5 How Important is it to have friends?
Year 4 Issue 9 Why is it wrong to discriminate?

Download an overview of the books used throughout the scheme

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Useful Information

Product Reference: LTPSHE
Format: eBook
Pages: Various
Publisher: Focus Education (UK) Ltd
Published Date: September 2024.  Revised September 2026.

Let's Talk: Y5 - What happens if I fall out with my special friend?
Let's Talk: Y5 - Why do we have to be careful using the internet?
Let's Talk: Y5 - Am I strong enough to resist pressure from my peers?
Let's Talk: Y5 - Why should we embrace change and not be frightened of it?
Let's Talk: Y5 - Why do some people find it easy to be prejudiced?
Let's Talk: Y5 - What is meant by a stereotype?
Let's Talk: Y5 - Why I should be proud of who I am and where I am from?
Let's Talk: Y5 - Do I have enough resilience to carry on with something I find hard?
Let's Talk: Y5 - Why are all families not the same?
Let's Talk: Y5 - How could I cope with losing someone who is dear to me?
Let's Talk: Y5 - What do I know about savings and having a bank account?
Let's Talk: Y5 - Do I do enough to help save our planet?
Let's Talk: Y5 - Why is cyberbullying so harmful?
Let's Talk: Y5 - Why should we be careful when online gaming?

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