PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic education), including Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education, is a key part of our curriculum. It supports children’s personal development, wellbeing, and understanding of how to stay safe and healthy in modern life.

The teaching of Relationships Education and Health Education is statutory in all primary schools (from September 2020). Our RSE provision is delivered in line with the Department for Education Relationships, Sex and Health Education guidance (2019). We ensure all learning is age-appropriate, inclusive, and fully compliant with statutory requirements.

We also ensure our PSHE and RSE curriculum meets key statutory and safeguarding requirements, including:

• Keeping Children Safe in Education (statutory guidance)
• Equality Act 2010

We use the Jigsaw PSHE programme, which provides a structured and progressive curriculum across the school. It is taught weekly and follows a spiral approach, revisiting key themes each year:

• Being Me in My World
• Celebrating Difference
• Dreams and Goals
• Healthy Me
• Relationships
• Changing Me

Through these units, children develop understanding of friendships, families, respectful relationships, online safety, emotional wellbeing, and growing and changing. This includes age-appropriate RSE learning, focusing on the foundations of healthy relationships, respect, and personal safety.

PSHE and RSE are also reinforced through school values, assemblies, and everyday interactions, helping children apply their learning in real-life situations.

We are committed to ensuring all children develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes they need to build positive relationships, stay safe, and thrive.

Useful links

• Department for Education RSHE guidance:
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/relationships-education-relationships-and-sex-education-rse-and-health-education
• NSPCC guidance for families:
  https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule