Overview

our PSHE curriculum is designed to help pupils develop the knowledge, skills and values they need to lead healthy, safe and responsible lives.

We teach children about relationships, health and wellbeing, and living in the wider world, ensuring they understand how to make positive choices and respect themselves and others.

Through engaging lessons pupils learn resilience, empathy and confidence, preparing them to thrive both in school and beyond.

Year 1

  • Personal goals and how you feel when you achieve these
  • Challenges and how to overcome these
  • Making the classroom a safe and happy space
  • Similarities and differences in people
  • Introduction to the protected characteristics
  • Bullying and how this might feel
  • Supporting friendships using personal qualities
  • Belonging and rule of law
  • Identifying emotions and related feelings
  • Zones of regulation
  • Staying healthy including diet, water, exercise, sleep and dental hygiene
  • Medicines within the household
  • Road safety
  • Family types and key attachments

Year 2

  • Personal goal setting
  • Developing resilience when working on personal tasks
  • Working with others
  • Resilience and respect
  • Bullying, tolerance and respect through difference
  • Celebrating difference
  • Features of a healthy relationship
  • Personal behaviours and their impact on others
  • Positive contributions and how to make them
  • Helpful and unhelpful behaviours
  • Managing own behaviour
  • Safe use of medicines and reasons why
  • Choices around food
  • Relaxation and its impact on the body
  • Naming and labelling body parts including reproductive organs

Year 3

  • Overcoming challenges using different approaches to resilience
  • Metacognition and how children learn
  • Confidence through speaking and sharing success
  • Inclusion within the classroom
  • Family roles and responsibilities
  • Expressing appreciation
  • Evaluating own life compared to others
  • Choices and their impact on others
  • Identifying a range of feelings
  • Organising feelings and responding to big emotions
  • Thinking positively about daily challenges
  • Discussing ambitions and steps to achieve them
  • Impact of exercise on the body
  • Identifying key contents of food through nutritional information
  • Drugs and alcohol safety and attitudes
  • Family types including appropriate and inappropriate contact

Year 4

  • Growth and fixed mindset
  • Improving resilience
  • Planning and setting new goals
  • Jealousy and maintaining relationships
  • Feelings associated with loss
  • Challenging assumptions
  • Bullying and bystanders
  • Peer pressure and resisting it
  • Celebrating inner strength
  • Differentiating right and wrong
  • Smoking, alcohol and drugs and their effects
  • Personal opinion and how to deliver it

Year 5

  • Comparing personal life with others
  • Rules, rights and responsibilities
  • Actions and consequences
  • Using a growth mindset
  • Direct and indirect bullying
  • Racism and discrimination
  • Acts of unkindness
  • Comparing friendships and feelings
  • Staying safe online
  • Hopes and dreams
  • Zones of regulation
  • Sun safety
  • Financial management
  • Substance misuse and its impact
  • Eating disorders and body image pressure
  • Respect and valuing own body
  • Key changes during puberty
  • Puberty and reproduction

Year 6

  • Choices and the community including global impact
  • Empathy and influence
  • Growth mindset and future success
  • Conflict and celebration
  • Bullying including peer-on-peer abuse
  • Social groups and contexts
  • Managing feelings
  • Gang culture and its impact on health
  • Mental health and maintaining personal wellbeing
  • Internal and external factors of goal setting
  • Overcoming obstacles and remaining positive
  • Emotions and physical health and how these link
  • Puberty and changes in male and female bodies
  • Reproduction