Common Questions 

 Our Credentials 

Who are you, and why should I trust your resources?

We are Marieke Roebuck, (BSc, MSc, PGCE) and Sarah du Sautoy (BA (Oxon), LLM, QTS). Together, we have almost 30 combined years of experience teaching PSHE in secondary schools. We are both passionate about PSHE, but we know that it can feel stressful and daunting to teach, especially when the content is outside your area of expertise or you don’t feel you’ve been given enough guidance on how to cover it. 

When we left full-time classroom teaching, we set up PSHEasy and created the resources we wish we’d had when we needed them. Between the two of us, we have degrees in humanities, biology, neuroscience and law. We’ve drawn on our academic backgrounds as well as our research skills and classroom experience to produce a curriculum that covers all the required content as well as striking the balance between making busy teachers’ lives easier and making lessons engaging and meaningful for students of all abilities.

 Lesson Length 

You’ve divided your topics into lessons, but how long is a lesson?

This is a tricky question to answer! By its nature, PSHE can (and should) involve plenty of thought and discussion, but we know from experience that the success of this depends as much on the learners you have in front of you on a given day as it does on your facilitation. 

Our resources use a mix of video clips, short-answer questions and activities, scenarios and prompts for discussion. On the accompanying teacher notes we list the durations of each video clip to help with lesson planning, but we’ve deliberately avoided allocating a suggested time to each activity. If students are engaging well at a particular point, let it run, and if not, move on.

As a very rough guide, we think each of our lessons has enough content for 60 minutes of classroom time, and we have allocated six lessons per half term. We know that not every school has regular timetabled PSHE lessons, and that you may find yourself trying to cram topics like Prejudice or Sexually Transmitted Infections into a few ten-minute tutor time slots instead. The fact that our lessons are divided into multiple short activities means that they can be used in this way too.  Because each activity is capped at around 10 minutes, you can organise these around your timetabling needs. 

 SEND Students 

Are your resources suitable for students with SEND (special educational needs and disabilities)?

We aim to make all our resources as accessible and inclusive as possible, without sacrificing important content. Our student workbooks are written in a dyslexia-friendly sans serif typeface (Lexend) with a minimum font size of 12, and have a white background to allow for the use of coloured overlays. Presentation slides are clear and free from unnecessary visual clutter. All our resources can be provided in a Google docs format that is compatible with the ScreenReader extension. 

Most of our lessons have a large discussion component, and contain at least one video or other multimodal element. We’ve tried to identify in the teacher notes any videos that we feel are particularly fast-paced or content-heavy, so that you can factor in time for a second viewing or pauses for explanation. 

Where a topic introduces complex language or specialist terms, we use tasks such as vocab-matching exercises or word clouds, so that students can build their understanding without needing to write or spell unfamiliar words. 

Our student workbooks are not intended to be formally marked and do not require the students to write extensively - questions can be answered in note form, or used simply as prompts for discussion and debate. The amount of text for students to read is kept to a minimum, and suggested answers to each question are given in the slide presentation so that students can self-mark and follow along. 

We want to give teachers flexibility in how they use our resources, so while we provide plenty of opportunities for group work and discussion, our lesson plans aren't prescriptive. This means that neurodiverse students or those with SEMH issues will be able to participate in the way that works best for them. Lesson tasks are short and clearly delineated, to help students who struggle to stay focused. 

 Payment Schedule 

Do I have to pay an annual subscription?

No, we do not operate a subscription mode. Once you have bought a resource, you may continue to use it for as long as you wish, but you are responsible for ensuring that its content remains appropriate and factually correct. As our resources go out of date, we intend to update them and remove old ones from our selling platforms, but we won’t be able to contact all previous customers individually to advise them of this. 

 Individual Lessons 

Do all your lessons work as stand-alone lessons, or do I have to buy a whole unit?

They all work as stand-alone lessons. Very occasionally, previous lessons may be referenced (for example in a starter activity) but we have tried to keep this to a minimum, because we want to give teachers the flexibility to pick and choose. We’d be delighted if you were to purchase our whole curriculum, but you can also buy just one or two lessons to supplement your existing resources or focus on a particular topic. 

 Pack Contents 

What’s contained in each lesson pack?

Each lesson pack contains: 

• Printable PDF student worksheet (most of these are 3 sides of A4)

• Teacher notes (containing the worksheet questions with suggested answers and useful information)

• Presentation (PowerPoint deck with video links, worksheet questions, and suggested answers revealed on subsequent slides)

• Suggested lesson plan with learning outcomes and any specific content warnings. 

If you buy a whole unit, we also provide a PDF student workbook and PDF teacher workbook, which combine the worksheets for all 6 lessons in order.

 Age Ratings 

Can I use one of your Year 8 lessons for my Year 6 class, or use one for Year 9 that says it’s for Year 11?

Of course - you know your students best. Please bear in mind, though, that the lessons are aimed at particular age groups both by reason of their subject matter (e.g. Drug Overdoses and Sexual Pleasure are unlikely to be suitable topics for most KS3 classes) as well as the content and language of the recommended video clips. We’ve provided warnings in the teacher notes for potentially distressing topics, as well as flagging up any uses of offensive language. 

The 2025 statutory guidance on the teaching of RSE is not prescriptive about the ages at which certain topics can be studied, beyond requiring that content must be “age-appropriate” and listing what must be covered by the end of primary and secondary school, allowing you to exercise professional judgement.  

 Our Values 

Do your lessons promote any particular ideology or agenda, for example, on issues such as politics, religion or gender identity?

No, we are educators, not activists. Naturally, we both have our own opinions on certain topics, but we don’t seek to bring those into the classroom. PSHE teaching in the UK is required to promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual freedom, tolerance and respect, and we feel that these values have been reflected in our coverage of all issues, including those that may be considered divisive or controversial.  If you feel that any of our lessons are not meeting this standard, please don’t hesitate to get in touch and let us know why. 

 Resource Delivery 

How are your resources delivered?

We send all our resources electronically as digital downloads. You can buy these instantly on TES, or for the best price you can request them directly from us via the order form. For direct orders, we aim to invoice within 2 working days and to send the files within 2 working days of receiving payment.

We can also arrange to have our worksheets and booklets printed and bound and sent to you in hard copy - please contact us to discuss this.

 Further Questions 

I have another question. 

We’d love to hear from you. Please contact us using the online form.