Making Good Choices (Y1 PSHE)

Making Good Choices | Year 1 PSHE Lesson | Unit 1: Me

Help young children understand that the choices they make each day lead to different outcomes. In this simple, child-friendly Year 1 lesson, pupils explore everyday examples of helpful and unhelpful choices, learn what an outcome is, and practise predicting what might happen next. Perfect for building early responsibility, self-awareness, and classroom community in a calm, structured way.

Learning objective: Learn to recognise simple choices in your everyday life and their outcomes.

What’s included:

• Full lesson slide deck (PDF) with a clear, ready-to-teach structure: Spark Plug, Starter, Key Words, Teacher Explanation, Main Activities, Exit Task, Cross-Curricular Links
• Spark Plug: “Two Doors, One Choice” discussion prompt to introduce decision-making in a visual, engaging way
• Starter: “The Choices I Make” mini whiteboard task to help pupils connect learning to real life
• Key word focus: Outcome (what happens next because of your choice)
• Activity 1 worksheet: Match the choice to the outcome (draw lines to link simple choices to what might happen next, e.g. waiting your turn, pushing in line, drinking water, using kind words)
• Activity 2 worksheet: My Choices “two doors” activity where pupils draw two possible choices, tick the one they would choose, and draw the outcome
• Exit task: Quick choice check-out (draw one good choice on a post-it)
• Cross-curricular extension ideas included (reading, art, maths, writing/reading, science, PE), plus a suggested class text: The Bad-Tempered Ladybird by Eric Carle
• Editable Canva template included within the resource for interactive teaching (recommended)

Why teachers love it:

• Low-prep lesson with clear visuals and simple language that works beautifully in KS1
• Helps children practise cause-and-effect thinking in a way that feels relevant and empowering
• Supports classroom culture by reinforcing kind choices, turn-taking, and thinking before acting

Suitable for: Year 1 / KS1
Unit: Unit 1: Me
Theme: Making Smart Choices

About The Ripple Project

The Ripple Project is more than a PSHE curriculum. It’s a mission.

A mission to help children grow into emotionally literate, self-regulated, and informed young people, with the knowledge and skills they need for personal, social, health, and economic life.

Here at RevEd, we believe children deserve more than surface-level lessons that rush through big topics. Our lessons are designed to go deeper, revisit themes over time through spiral learning, and help learners practise real-life skills in creative, practical ways that actually stick.

How the programme is organised

The Ripple Project is divided into three units that learners return to year after year:

• Me: Learners build a picture of who they are, including their interests, strengths, needs, goals, motivators, and values.
• You: Learners explore how they connect to others, including safety, healthy relationships, boundaries, diversity, tolerance, and more.
• Us: Our optional Citizenship unit helps learners connect ideas from Me and You to society and the wider world, encouraging responsibility, justice, and meaningful contribution.

A whole-school spiral curriculum

The Ripple Project spans Year 1 through to Year 11. Students revisit the same themes every year with increasing depth and complexity, so that by the time they reach bigger topics like coercive control in Year 10, they already have a strong foundation. They’ve practised essential concepts such as boundaries, healthy relationships, and consent throughout Years 1, 2, and 3 and beyond.

Every lesson is mapped to DfE statutory guidance, and we intentionally fill the gaps where essential topics are missing or not explored deeply enough.

Ultimately, our aim is to spark a ripple effect that begins with one child’s understanding, one better choice, one kinder response, and one moment of courage. Over time, those small shifts shape behaviour, actions, and values. They travel outward through friendships, families, classrooms, and communities, helping to build a fairer, safer, more compassionate wider world.

When are more resources available?

The Ripple Project is being released in a planned weekly rollout, with new lessons added each week as the programme grows. Keep coming back to see what’s new, or join our mailing list to get updates straight to your inbox. Complete packs will be added to our website as soon as they become available. For enquiries, contact Natalie at natalie@revolutionaryeducation.co.uk

Copyright & licensing

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This resource is licensed for use by the original purchaser for personal classroom or home education use only. You may download and print this resource for your own teaching, but you may not share, redistribute, upload, resell, or reproduce it in whole or in part, in any format (including digital sharing via email, messaging apps, social media, or cloud drives).

School-wide, MAT/umbrella organisation, and co-op/home education group licences are available. For licensing enquiries, please contact natalie@revolutionaryeducation.co.uk