What do schools have to teach in Personal Social Health Education?

According to the latest guidance from the government, via the National Curriculum, every school needs to have a broad and balanced curriculum that:-

• promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and of society;
• prepares pupils at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life; and,

• promotes British Values.

Schools also have statutory responsibilities to promote pupil well-being and pupil safeguarding (Children Act, 2004) and community cohesion (Education Act, 2006). PSHE Education plays an important part in fulfilling all of these responsibilities.

Kapow

Hurst Drive Primary School uses the Kapow scheme which is a comprehensive PSHE Education programme for the whole primary school from Reception through to Year 6.

Kapow brings together PSHE Education, emotional literacy, mindfulness, social skills and spiritual development. Kapow is designed as a whole school approach. 

What is PSHE & RSE?

PSHE stands for Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education. RSE stands for Relationships and Sex Education. Schools may use different names for these subjects: RSE may be referred to as RSHE when health education is included; similarly, PSHE may be referred to as PSHCE when citizenship is included.

The Kapow Primary RSE & PSHE scheme covers the full breadth of learning pupils need to stay healthy, safe and prepared for life. This includes:

• Personal.
• Social.
• Health.
• Economic.
• Relationships.
• Citizenship.
• Sex education 

Progression

The RSE & PSHE: Progression of skills and knowledge shows how learning develops across each phase, both within the key areas and across the strands. It demonstrates how pupils build the knowledge, understanding and skills required to meet the statutory outcomes by the end of EYFS and the end of primary school.

Learning builds progressively across the key areas of My healthy self, Connecting with others, The online world, Staying safe, Health protection, Citizenship and Growing up, with optional units on Sex education and First aid in Year 6. Within these key areas, pupils revisit important knowledge and concepts with increasing depth and maturity.

Alongside this, the strands of self-regulation, managing self, building relationships and critical thinking show how pupils’ personal and social skills develop from Reception to Year 6, supporting them to make thoughtful, informed choices and to thrive in school and beyond.