My Interests & Me | Year 4 PSHE Lesson | The Ripple Project (Unit 1: Me)
Help pupils explore who they are through what they enjoy. In this engaging Year 4 lesson from The Ripple Project’s spiral PSHE curriculum, children identify their personal interests, link them to positive characteristics, and reflect on the kind of person they are becoming. Perfect for building self-awareness, confidence, and wellbeing in a calm, structured, child-friendly way.
Learning objective: To be able to identify personal interests and describe how these reflect who you are.
Statutory curriculum links (how this lesson supports requirements):
- Explicit link: Mental Wellbeing (pupils build self-awareness, confidence, and vocabulary to describe feelings of enjoyment, pride, and motivation)
- Foundation building: Caring Friendships (pupils practise respectful listening, positive peer feedback, and valuing differences)
- Subtle link: Families & Carers (pupils recognise how interests are shaped and supported at home and reflect on trusted relationships that help them grow)
What’s included:
- Full lesson slide deck (PDF) with a clear, ready-to-teach structure (Spark Plug, Starter, Key Words, Teacher Explanation, Knowledge Check, Main Activities, Exit Task)
- Activity 1 worksheet: pupils analyse fictional characters’ interests and match them to characteristics using the provided characteristics bank (ideal for guided discussion and reasoning)
- Activity 2 worksheet: “My Interests & Me” ID Card where pupils record their top interests, characteristics, and a goal for growth (includes an example page to model strong answers)
- A link inside the resource to an editable Canva version of the presentation with interactive features (recommended for use)
- Cross-curricular extension ideas (reading, writing, art, maths, science, PE) to deepen learning beyond PSHE
- Copyright/licensing page included
Why teachers love it:
- Low-prep, high-impact wellbeing lesson that helps pupils describe identity in a positive, structured way
- Builds on earlier learning about likes/dislikes, uniqueness, and strengths while moving pupils towards deeper reflection
- Inclusive and confidence-building: reinforces that interests can change, grow, and be explored over time
Suitable for: Year 4 / KS2
Strand: Discovering Me | Unit 1: Me
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
© Revolutionary Education CIC. All rights reserved.
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
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