PSHE

What is PSHE Education?

PSHE stands for Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education.

PSHE is an important part of our curriculum and supports children to develop the knowledge, skills, confidence and understanding they need to look after themselves, build positive relationships, make informed choices and play a positive role in their community and wider society.

Through our PSHE curriculum, children are given opportunities to talk, listen, reflect and learn about themselves and the world around them. We help children to develop their emotional wellbeing, resilience, independence and confidence, while learning how to respect themselves and others.

Our PSHE curriculum includes learning about:

• Relationships and friendships – developing positive, respectful and healthy relationships, understanding boundaries and knowing how to seek help.

• Health and wellbeing – understanding physical and mental health, emotions, healthy lifestyles and how to look after ourselves.

• Keeping safe – recognising risks, understanding how to stay safe and knowing who to talk to when we need help.

• Online safety – developing safe, responsible and respectful behaviours when using technology and navigating the online world.

• Respect and inclusion – understanding and celebrating differences, promoting equality and challenging unkind or harmful behaviour.

• Growing and changing – learning age-appropriate information about our bodies, feelings, relationships and personal development.

• Living in the wider world – developing an understanding of money, responsibilities, communities, democracy and how we can contribute positively to society.

What do schools have to teach?

PSHE is a broad programme of learning which schools can design to meet the needs of their pupils. Within our PSHE curriculum, we ensure that we meet all relevant statutory requirements.

In primary schools, Relationships Education and Health Education are statutory. From 1 September 2026, schools have been required to follow the revised Department for Education statutory guidance for Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education.

The updated guidance strengthens the importance of children learning about healthy and respectful relationships, boundaries, safety, online harms, harmful behaviour, mental health and wellbeing, and harmful stereotypes and attitudes, in an age-appropriate way.

Our curriculum has been reviewed to reflect these updated requirements and to ensure that learning is carefully sequenced, age-appropriate, inclusive and relevant to the lives of our children.

PSHE also contributes to our wider responsibility to provide a broad and balanced curriculum which supports children's spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.

We also promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs, helping children to understand their responsibilities and their role within our school, local community and wider society.

Working together with families

We recognise that parents and carers play an important role in supporting children's personal, social, emotional and health development. We aim to work in partnership with families, providing children with a safe and supportive environment in which they can ask questions, share their thoughts and feelings, and develop the confidence to make positive and healthy choices.

Our aim is for every child to leave our school feeling confident, valued and prepared for life beyond primary school, with the knowledge, skills and understanding to look after themselves, respect others and make a positive contribution to the world around them.