PSHE and RSHE

The PSHE and RSHE Curriculum at Brentfield:

 

At Brentfield, PSHE and RSHE are central to developing confident, safe and respectful children. Our curriculum is designed in line with statutory guidance from the Department for Education (DFE), ensuring all pupils receive high quality relationships education and health education that prepares them for life in modern Britain.  

In line with DFE expectations, we ensure that pupils learn how to stay safe, build positive relationships and become responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society. 

 

Our Curriculum Approach

Our PSHE and RSE curriculum is carefully structured around two key strands:

  • Life Skills: developing knowledge, understanding and personal attributes children need to thrive

  • Local Risks: responding directly to safeguarding issues relevant to our pupils and community

 

This approach ensures learning is both proactive and responsive, equipping children to manage real-life situations such as online safety, peer pressure, wellbeing and community safety. 

The curriculum is carefully sequenced so that pupils revisit key themes each year with increasing depth. In Key Stage 1, children build strong foundations in friendships, feelings and safety, In Key Stage 2, learning deepens to include more complex topics such as healthy relationships, online influence, financial awareness and preparation for secondary school. Lessons are taught weekly and are discussion based, inclusive and responsive to pupil needs. Real-life scenarios help children practise decision-making and apply their learning in meaningful contexts. By the end of Year 6, pupils leave us equipped with the knowledge, skills and confidence to thrive, maintain healthy relationships and contribute positively to their communities. 

 

Relationships and Sex Education

Relationships education focuses on teaching the fundamental building blocks and characteristics of positive relationships. Children are taught about healthy relationships and explore how to keep themselves and others safe in a variety of different situations and environments, so that they are prepared for the future. Units within this area include: 

  • Families and people who care for me

  • Caring friendships

  • ​Respectful relationships

  • Online relationships

  • Being safe

 

Our sex education focuses on:

  • Preparing boys and girls for the changes that adolescence brings

  • How a baby is conceived and born

 

RSE is predominately delivered within PSHE, however biological aspects of this unit are taught within the Science curriculum, and other aspects are included in Religious Education (RE). RSE sessions are delivered to pupils in a nurturing and respectful environment by their class teacher.  ​

 

Our BRAVE Values

Our curriculum is rooted in our school values of BRAVE:

  • Belonging: promoting inclusion, respect and a strong sense of community

  • Responsibility: encouraging pupils to make safe, thoughtful choices

  • Aspirational: supporting children to aim high and achieve their potential

  • Value Diversity: celebrating differences and promoting equality 

  • Empowered: giving pupils the confidence and knowledge take action

 

Through these values, pupils develop the confidence, resilience and moral understanding needed to navigate the world around them. 

 

British Values

We also promote the fundamental British Values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and believes, through our curriculum. These are reflected in our school culture, ensuring pupils develop as respectful, informed and active citizens. 

Our BRAVE values guide us, the British Values unite us.