PSHE Relationships Education and Health Education

At St Mary’s, PSHE helps pupils develop the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to stay healthy and safe, build respectful relationships and prepare for life. It includes statutory Relationships Education and Health Education alongside wider learning about wellbeing, responsibility, community, economic understanding and personal development.

Our curriculum

PSHE is taught through planned lessons from Reception to Year 6 and reinforced through the wider curriculum and life of the school. Learning is carefully sequenced so that pupils revisit important ideas, build their understanding and learn age-appropriate protective skills.

Using Muse Wellbeing

We use Muse Wellbeing to support PSHE planning and delivery. Muse provides structured lessons, curriculum overviews, progression and statutory mapping for Relationships Education, Health Education and wider PSHE. School leaders review and adapt resources to reflect our pupils, community, Christian character, statutory guidance and local decisions.

Policy and information for parents and carers

Our PSHE Relationships and Health Education Policy explains what is statutory, how teaching is organised, how sensitive content is handled and how any non-statutory primary sex education is managed. Parents and carers can view the policy, curriculum overview and statutory mapping on this page. Paper copies are available free of charge from the school office.

Parents and carers with questions can contact Mrs Freeman, Education Lead, through the school office. Before non-statutory primary sex education is taught, families are informed about the content and materials and about the right to request withdrawal from that content. Pupils cannot be withdrawn from Relationships Education, Health Education or National Curriculum science.

Useful links

• PSHE Relationships and Health Education Policy  September 2026
• PSHE curriculum overview
• Statutory Relationships Education and Health Education mapping
• Muse Wellbeing primary PSHE curriculum information
• Muse Wellbeing information for parents and carers

References

• Department for Education  Relationships Education Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education statutory guidance  effective 1 September 2026
• Department for Education  What academies and further education colleges must or should publish online
• Muse Wellbeing  Primary PSHE and RSHE Policy Guidance
• Muse Wellbeing  School Website Content Guide