Unit 1: Me | Strand: Discovering Me
Help your Year 1 children begin building a confident sense of self with this warm, practical lesson exploring likes, dislikes, and simple personal strengths. Through interactive prompts, discussion, and creative tasks, pupils learn that it’s okay to like different things, that everyone has different strengths, and that we can still belong together and be friends.
Learning Objective: To be able to recognise and name personal likes, dislikes, and simple strengths.
Statutory links:
Primary Link: Primary Mental Wellbeing
Seocondary: Kind Relationships
Subtle Link: Equality and Inclusion
What’s included (3 resources)
- PDF lesson presentation (includes access to an editable Canva template version)
- Activity 1 handout: pupils tick likes, cross dislikes, and circle what they’re good at (visual, accessible, low-prep)
- Activity 2 handout: “I like… / I don’t like… / I’m good at…” poster template for drawing and personal reflection
The lesson presentation also includes teacher notes, a clear step-by-step lesson flow (starter, key vocabulary, main tasks, exit task), and cross-curricular extension ideas to help you embed learning beyond PSHE.
Lesson outline (at a glance):
- Starter: simple “Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down” style prompts to build oracy and confidence
- Key vocabulary taught with child-friendly explanations
- Main tasks: structured reflection worksheet plus a creative poster task
- Exit task: quick partner share to practise kind, respectful noticing of others
Key selling points:
- Low prep, high impact: print-and-go handouts and a ready-to-teach slide deck
- Inclusive by design: visuals and structured choices support EAL, SEND, and emerging writers
- Trauma-informed and confidence-building: encourages safe self-expression, normalises difference, and strengthens belonging
- Editable version included: adapt quickly for your class, display interactively, or tweak examples
- Part of a spiral curriculum: builds foundations children return to year after year in The Ripple Project
Perfect for:
Year 1 PSHE, wellbeing sessions, start of the year, transition support, circle time, and building a calm, connected classroom culture.
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 (from February 2026), 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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