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Edwards Hall

RSHE

RSHE

The RSHE curriculum was updated in September 2026. New guidance builds positively upon what we already teach, with a stronger focus on the realities children face today, particularly online.

For primary-aged children, the key updates include:

  • Enhanced Online Safety: Greater emphasis on navigating digital spaces safely, understanding age-restricted content, and recognising online boundaries.
  • Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing: Expanded focus on helping children identify and manage complex feelings, including building resilience, and understanding grief, loss, and loneliness.
  • Practical Personal Safety: New, explicit content to help children recognise risks around roads, railways, fire, and water safety.
  • Body Protection & Safeguarding: Reaffirming best practice by teaching children accurate anatomical vocabulary for body parts. This is a vital safeguarding tool that reduces stigma and empowers children to speak up if they ever feel unsafe.
  • Diverse Families: Ensuring our lessons continue to reflect and respect the diverse family structures within our modern British society (such as single parents, same-sex parents, foster carers, and blended families).

At Edwards Hall, we will also be teaching sex education in Year 6, as recommended by the DfE. Sex education is non-statutory, which means you have the right to withdraw your young person from these lessons.

Approach to Teaching

At Edwards Hall Primary School, we believe that Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) is a vital part of every child's education. Our curriculum is carefully planned to equip pupils with the knowledge, skills and confidence to build positive relationships, make informed decisions and develop into happy, healthy and respectful members of society.

We teach RSHE in a safe, inclusive and supportive environment where children feel respected, listened to and able to ask questions. Lessons are age-appropriate, responsive to the needs of our pupils and delivered with sensitivity by class teachers who know the children well. We recognise that every child is unique and adapt our teaching to ensure the curriculum is accessible for all learners, including those with SEND. Our curriculum is carefully planned using high-quality resources from the PSHE Association and the Yasmin & Tom programme, ensuring that learning is accurate, engaging and fully aligned with statutory guidance.

Through RSHE, pupils learn how to develop healthy relationships, understand and manage their emotions, respect themselves and others, recognise risks, stay safe both online and offline, and know where to seek help if they need it. As children progress through the school, learning builds sequentially, enabling them to revisit and deepen their understanding of key concepts in an age-appropriate way.

At Edwards Hall, we value the important role that parents and carers play as children's first educators. We work closely in partnership with families by sharing curriculum information, inviting parents to view resources and attend information sessions, and providing guidance to support conversations at home. We believe that open communication between home and school helps children receive consistent messages and feel confident discussing sensitive topics with trusted adults.

Our RSHE curriculum reflects the diverse world in which we live and promotes the values of kindness, respect, equality, empathy and inclusion. We encourage children to celebrate differences, challenge stereotypes and understand that every individual deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. Throughout our teaching, we prepare pupils for life in modern Britain while fostering resilience, emotional literacy and responsible citizenship.

RSHE Policy

Below you can find our RSHE Primary policy, which includes the curriculum map, how we will communicate with families and a curriculum map.

EHPS RSHE Primary Policy (Sep 2026)

RSHE Lead / Contact Details

The RSHE Lead at Edwards Hall Primary School is Mrs Josie Eborn

Please contact the school via info@edwardshall.lihtrust.uk if you have any questions.

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