Personal, Social, & Health Education
We follow the government’s guidance for Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education, including Relationships and Sex Education (RSE), which involves learning about relationships, health and wellbeing, including living in a wider world.
Our curriculum supports children in developing the knowledge, skills, and values they need to lead healthy, safe, and fulfilling lives — both now and in the future.
Our approach to PSHE reflects the values at the heart of our school ethos: to challenge and support every child to reach their full potential in a culture of mutual respect. Lessons promote resilience, self-awareness, and a sense of responsibility, preparing our pupils not only for secondary school, but for life beyond the classroom.
Three core themes
- Theme 1: health and wellbeing; healthy lifestyles; growing & changing; keeping safe
- Theme 2: relationships; feelings & emotions; healthy relationships; valuing difference
- Theme 3: living in the wider world; rights & responsibilities; environment, money.
Relationships Education will put in place the building blocks needed for positive and safe relationships and how it influences health and wellbeing. These areas of learning are taught within the context of family life; taking care to ensure that there is no stigmatisation of children based on their home circumstances along with reflecting sensitively that some children may have a different structure of family support around them.
Health & Wellbeing helps children to know and understand what constitutes a healthy lifestyle. Children will learn about physical, mental and emotional health and how these contribute to their wellbeing. Children will be aware of safety issues in all aspects, including how to respond in an emergency. They will learn how to manage change, including puberty, transition and loss.
Living in the Wider World enables children to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes they need to be safe, confident, healthy and happy in the modern world in which they live. We believe that this strand of PSHE, including basic citizenship education, will help children to become healthier, more independent, responsible and worthwhile members of society, including embracing the British Values.
We currently use the excellent Jigsaw PSHE scheme to deliver all elements of the PSHE curriculum.
Jigsaw content overview (3 to 11 UK)
Relationships and Sex Education
RSE Presentation to parentsLetter to all ParentsRSE Curriculum SummaryRelationships & Sex Education PolicyRelationships Education Relationships and Sex Education RSE and Health Education (DfE)Barnet Emotional Wellbeing and PSHE Framework