Personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education is an important and necessary part of all pupils’ education.
Department for Education
Relationships Education is designed to help children to have positive and safe relationships with family, friends and online. Health Education will help children to make good decisions about their health and wellbeing and enable them to know how to seek support if any health issues arise for themselves or others.
We have been delivering Relationships and Health Education within our Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) curriculum for many years. We have reviewed our PSHE curriculum to make sure that our lessons meet the requirements that the government has set out.
We follow the DfE guidance to deliver PSHE and implement it using the whole school PSHE scheme of work ‘Twinkl Life’ from Twinkl which is fully in line with the PSHE Association Programme of Study and meets the Guidance for Statutory Relationships Education.
Within each key stage (KS1, LKS2 & UKS2) there are 12 units which are covered each half term as part of a 2 year rolling programme.
This PHSE curriculum is split into 3 areas and works as a spiral curriculum. All classes will cover the same unit in the same half term but the work will build on that previously taught in the previous key stage and be more challenging, thought provoking and age appropriate.
The RSE section of the curriculum works on the principle of teaching the children about RSE before the changes actually happen to them and will be covered every other year, in the final summer term of each class.
Parents and carers may wish to withdraw their child from the strands of sex education which are not statutory in the new Relationships Education. Parents and carers have a right to make such a request.
Children are assessed at the end of each unit of work