Wakefield Snapethorpe Primary School

RSHE

Implementation

RSHE is taught in discrete, weekly lessons but it is also embedded in other areas of the curriculum and day to day life of the school. The scheme of work used comes from the PSHE Association and Pol-Ed. Our curriculum has been developed using both the Programme of Study and Curriculum Model documents. This was chosen as it provides a comprehensive RSHE curriculum for our school. The topics are mapped out clearly to ensure a progressive, spiral curriculum where all the statutory elements are covered by the end of KS2. The content is delivered through 3 core themes: health and wellbeing, relationships and living in the wider world. This is then tailored to our pupil’s needs and supplemented with additional theme days, assemblies and lessons.

RSHE is taught by adults who are familiar to the children, mostly class teachers. This helps to facilitate constructive and supportive discussions in a safe and open environment. All teaching staff have received in house CPD training to ensure subject knowledge is strong and staff know how to respond to children’s questions appropriately. Teachers provide a range of activities both practical and recorded to allow children to demonstrate their understanding. Misconceptions are addressed as they arise through discussions and real life examples as appropriate. The curriculum aims to be developmentally appropriate for all pupils and enable all pupils to access good quality PSHE teaching.

Impact

The RSHE curriculum is well sequenced and carefully planned so pupils leave with a thorough understanding of the key concepts highlighted in our curriculum plans. They know how to keep themselves safe and leave school well prepared for the challenges they may encounter at KS3 and beyond. We know this through our assessment system, visits to lessons, discussions with groups of pupils and individual pupils. We ensure our most vulnerable pupils are prioritized when assessing and checking that key concepts are understood.

Below you can find the whole school overview for the RSHE coverage per year group and the medium term plans for each unit.

               Relationships, Sex and Health Education Policy (RSHE) September 2026

RSHE stakeholder consultations 2026

In July 2025, the government published updated statutory guidance on the teaching of RSHE in schools. This is being implemented from September 2026.

As a school, we reviewed the guidance alongside our current policy and curriculum and made changes and updates, where needed. As part of this, we consulted with parents and carers to gain their views on RSHE including key priority areas, curriculum content and organisation. 

Below are the outcomes of our online consultations. We invited feedback from parents, teaching staff and pupils.

Parent Information Sessions - 7th July 3.30pm and 30th June 9.00am.

We held two parent information sessions over the Summer term. We invited parents to come into school to learn more about RSHE and how it is taught in school. As part of this session, we looked at what RSHE is, what it covers and how it is taught. We also shared our updated curriculum plans as well as some of the resources, books and scenarios used in lessons.

We are hoping to run more of these over the 2026/2027 academic year so look out for further information!

Frequently asked questions

The government also have a FAQs page on their website which is very helpful for parents and carers to access.

Relationships education, relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education: FAQs - GOV.UK 

Full RSHE Statutory Guidance

If you would like to read the guidance in full, please follow this link to the full government guidance:

Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education guidance

To find further information relating to learning in individual year groups, please use the year group tabs on the website homepage.