Welcome to the PSHE and RSE section of Slimbridge Primary School’s website, where we are committed to delivering an inclusive, age-appropriate curriculum, designed to support children’s wellbeing, safety and personal development.
We teach Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSE) in line with the DfE’s updated statutory guidance (2025), compulsory from September 1st 2026.
Our RSHE and PSHE Curriculum
Our core PSHE curriculum is delivered through Twinkl Life, SCARF and GHLL resources, ensuring structured, high-quality coverage of all statutory RSHE content, whilst also allowing teachers to tailorise additional lessons to suit the needs of their pupils . Learning is enriched through visits and workshops from external specialists. We are also a My Happy Mind school.
We firmly believe that “high-quality PSHE education helps pupils to develop the knowledge, skills, and attributes they need to manage their lives, now and in the future.” Our curriculum at Slimbridge Primary School reflects this guidance, ensuring that our students are provided with a rich and engaging learning experience that promotes their personal, social, and emotional well-being.
Additionally, we follow the DfE’s statutory guidance on RSE, which highlights the importance of delivering age-appropriate, inclusive, and comprehensive education that equips children with the necessary knowledge and skills to navigate healthy relationships, consent, and personal safety.
Curriculum statement of Intent
Our scheme of work aims to equip children with essential skills for life; it intends to develop the whole child through carefully planned and resourced lessons that develop the knowledge, skills and attributes children need to protect and enhance their wellbeing. Children will learn how to stay safe and healthy, build and maintain successful relationships and become active citizens, responsibly participating in society around them. We want to ensure that they have the necessary knowledge about drugs, alcohol, healthy diet, sleep and other areas to help them begin to make healthy life choices now and in the future.
The children are encouraged to explore and communicate their ideas confidently helping them to develop their own voice and express their own individuality whilst also raising their self-esteem as valued members of their community.
We want to inspire our children to be enterprising and to support them in making effective transitions, positive learning and career choices and in managing their finances effectively. It gives children and young people the skills to reflect on and analyse their own values and equips them to face difficult and sometimes conflicting attitudes they may face in the future.
What Children Learn by the End of Primary School (Statutory 2026)
Relationships Education
By the end of Year 6, pupils learn to:
- Understand different types of families and know that all families can provide love, care and stability.
- Build and maintain caring friendships, including resolving conflict and recognising when friendships feel unsafe.
- Develop respectful, kind relationships, including understanding boundaries, consent, stereotypes and equality.
- Stay safe online and communicate respectfully in digital spaces.
- Recognise unsafe situations and know how to seek help from trusted adults.
Health Education
By the end of Year 6, pupils learn to:
- Understand mental wellbeing, including how feelings change and how to seek support.
- Use the internet safely, including recognising risks such as misinformation, pressure and harmful content.
- Make healthy choices about activity, sleep and screen time.
- Understand healthy eating and the impact of diet on health.
- Know the risks of drugs, alcohol, tobacco and vaping, including nicotine addiction and harmful substances.
- Understand puberty and body changes, including correct scientific vocabulary.
- Perform basic first aid and know how to call emergency services.
- Prevent illness through hygiene, sun safety, sleep and vaccinations.
- Stay safe in the community, including road, rail and water safety.
Working With Parents
We value strong partnerships with parents and carers. We share curriculum information in advance, offer opportunities to view resources, and provide a short parent survey as part of our consultation process.
Implementation
The Twinkl Life scheme of work fulfils the requirements of 2020 Statutory Relationships and Health Education, setting these learning intentions in the context of a broad and balanced PSHE curriculum. The scheme is designed to be taught in thematic units each with supporting materials including a planning overview, assessment statements and display materials. The themes are revisited in each year group to recall and build upon previous learning, exploring the underlying principles of PSHE education regularly at a depth that is appropriate for the age and stage of the child. Lessons also signpost keywords, building a rich vocabulary to develop understanding.
The three main units of Twinkl are:
- Health and wellbeing → Growing up, It’s my body, Safety first, Think positive
- Living in the wider world → Aiming high, Diverse Britain, Money Matters, One world
- Relationships → Be yourself, digital wellbeing, Together Everyone Achieves More (TEAM), Very Important People (VIP)
Units are designed to be delivered in a creative manner, using many approaches such as role play, discussion and games. Each lesson begins with a discussion of the children’s existing knowledge and experience, providing an opportunity for baseline assessment. Each lesson ends with an opportunity to consolidate and reflect on learning.
We follow our RSHE policy which has been developed in accordance with national and county guidance. There has been pupil and parental involvement in the development of this curriculum. Age appropriate lessons are delivered from Reception up to Year Six and links are made to the Science, PE and DT curriculum where appropriate.
Science curriculum where appropriate. At Slimbridge we use Twinkl scheme of work as a basis for our RSE teaching. We have adapted some of this planning after staff discussion, parental survey and a parent workshop. Teaching staff have copies of planning in folders.
The UPKS2 RSE lessons are within the Twinkl units:
- Health and wellbeing → Growing up, It’s my body
- Relationships → Be yourself, digital wellbeing, Together Everyone Achieves More (TEAM), Very Important People (VIP)