Mrs C Shiels (PSHE Lead)
Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE) is a wide-ranging subject encompassing many issues including health and wellbeing, sex education, personal and social relationships, keeping safe and issues of moral and ethical values. It encourages pupils to make decisions and develop positive attitudes so that they can become healthy, happy and secure adults. Effective PSHE is vital to ensure that pupils grow up able to enjoy the positive benefits of loving, rewarding and responsible relationships. At Eslington Primary school, PSHE is at the centre of all teaching and learning and includes all aspects of school life. As part of a whole school approach, PSHE education develops the qualities and attributes pupils need to thrive as individuals, family members and members of society.
PSHE at Eslington Primary school covers the Health Education and Relationship and Sex Education curriculum that became statutory in all maintained primary schools in September 2021. Health Education focusses on how to maintain physical health and mental wellbeing including simple self-care techniques, personal hygiene, prevention of health and wellbeing problems and basic first aid. Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) is all about learning the emotional, social and physical aspects of growing up, relationships, sex, human sexuality and sexual health. Some aspects of this are taught in science, and others are taught as part of PSHE. A comprehensive programme of RSE provides accurate information about the body, reproduction, sex, and sexual health. It also gives children and young people essential skills for building positive, enjoyable, respectful and non-exploitative relationships and staying safe both on and offline. RSE involves a combination of sharing information and exploring issues and values and is not about the promotion of sexual activity.
At Eslington Primary school, we do not have to follow the National Curriculum but we are expected to offer all pupils a curriculum that is similar to the National Curriculum including requirements to teach science which would include the elements of sex education contained in the science curriculum.
