At Mayville, we believe Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE) is fundamental to helping pupils become healthy, confident, safe and responsible members of society. Our curriculum gives children the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to manage their lives now and in the future, within a safe and supportive environment.

PSHE is delivered through 1Decision and has been reviewed to reflect the revised statutory Relationships Education, RSE and Health Education guidance effective from September 2026. We clearly distinguish statutory Relationships and Health Education from wider PSHE and any additional primary sex education.

Our aims

Our PSHE/RSHE curriculum enables pupils to:

• recognise and manage their emotions and develop resilience
• develop healthy, respectful relationships and understand friendship, families, boundaries, privacy and consent
• keep themselves physically and mentally healthy
• recognise risks and keep themselves safe, both online and offline
• understand their rights and responsibilities and make informed choices
• respect people with different backgrounds, families, beliefs and experiences
• develop an age-appropriate understanding of growing, changing and puberty
• know when, where and how to seek help for themselves or others.

Teaching approach

PSHE/RSHE is carefully sequenced from EYFS to Year 6 using 1Decision. Learning is organised into key themes, which are revisited at increasingly sophisticated levels as pupils mature:

Feelings and Emotions  •  Computer Safety  •  Keeping/Staying Safe  •  Keeping/Staying Healthy  •  Our World  •  A World Without Judgement  •  Being Responsible  •  Relationships  •  Growing and Changing

Teachers use discussion, questioning, scenarios, decision-making and reflection so that pupils can explore real-life situations safely. British Values – democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect and tolerance – are woven throughout.

EYFS

PSHE is embedded in daily practice, relationships, routines and continuous provision. Children learn about feelings, friendships, personal hygiene, healthy choices, pedestrian safety and the perspectives of others, developing early self-regulation, independence and resilience.

KS1 and KS2

• Relationships – families, caring friendships, bullying, kindness, loneliness, boundaries, body autonomy, privacy, appropriate and inappropriate touch and trusted adults.
• Online safety – taught explicitly, progressing from privacy, respectful behaviour and trusted adults to image sharing, personal data, age restrictions, harmful contact and content, scams, financial harms and reporting concerns.
• Health – healthy eating, physical activity, sleep, dental health and hygiene, followed by age-appropriate learning about smoking, vaping, nicotine, alcohol and drugs.
• Growing and changing – taught sensitively, from healthy relationships, boundaries and privacy to the physical and emotional changes of puberty, menstruation and correct body-part vocabulary.

Sex education (Year 6)

Additional primary sex education in Year 6 is clearly distinguished from statutory Relationships and Health Education. Parents are consulted, and the right to withdraw applies to sex-education content only, as set out in the school’s curriculum overview.

Inclusion

All pupils, including those with SEND and EAL, access PSHE/RSHE meaningfully, with adaptations made through quality first teaching. Support may include:

• modelling and visual support
• pre-teaching of key vocabulary and concepts
• carefully chosen, age-appropriate language
• additional scaffolding and adult support.

Challenge

Pupils are challenged to apply their learning to realistic scenarios, weigh up choices and consequences, and explain and justify their decisions, while respectfully considering the views of others.

Pupils become confident, respectful, resilient and responsible individuals who make informed decisions about their relationships, health, wellbeing and safety. By the end of Year 6, they have an age-appropriate understanding of:

• healthy, respectful relationships, boundaries and privacy
• physical and emotional wellbeing, including puberty
• online and offline safety
• equality, respect and responsible decision-making
• their role in school, the community and wider society.

Pupils know how to recognise when something is wrong, where to seek support and how to keep themselves and others safe.

Assessment

Assessment is embedded in the curriculum through baseline and summative assessments, alongside teacher observation, questioning, discussion and pupils’ responses.

Monitoring

The subject leader monitors the quality and impact of PSHE/RSHE through pupil voice, learning walks, scrutiny of learning, assessment information, planning and staff discussion. They check coverage and progression from EYFS to Year 6 against statutory RSHE requirements, ensuring provision remains appropriate to pupils’ age, needs and our community.