Key aspects of PSHE education include:

Core Themes: It covers three main areas: health and wellbeing, relationships, and living in the wider world.
Purpose: The aim is to help children stay safe, healthy, and prepared for life and work.
Flexibility:
While the PSHE Association offers a widely used Programme of Study, schools have the flexibility to tailor the curriculum to their pupils' needs.
Statutory Components: Although PSHE is non-statutory, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education are statutory in schools.

Common topics covered in PSHE:

Health: Mental health, wellbeing, and physical health.
Relationships: Healthy relationships and sex education.
Economic: Financial capability, career choices, and economic well-being.
Skills: Resilience, self-awareness, and emotional literacy.

PSHE and RSE Education Policy 2026.pdf

PSHE and RSE Education Policy

PSHE Matters

PSHE Matters.pdf

Our PSHE progression map can be found here.

At Bradley we looked at keeping ourselves safe online - we learnt that once something is online - it is there forever and very difficult to get back. We used a tube of toothpaste to demonstrate this. It was very difficult to get the toothpaste back in the tube once it had been squirted all over the table!

Donaldson Class at Brailsford enjoyed making - and eating - delicious fruit Union Jack flags in honour of the Coronation of King Charles III

Some recent examples of our work in PSHE

Bradley Resaurant Launch Event

As part of their PSHE learning, the children at Bradley have been looking at healthy eating and how important having a balanced diet is.

We asked the children to design a balanced meal using all the knowledge of food groups, minerals and vitamins that they have been learning about over the past 5 weeks.

The children designed the following meal:

Starter - Tomato Soup

Main - Bean Chilli with Rice and Tortilla chips

Dessert - Fruit Salad and Ice Cream

The children designed posters and invited their families to join them to celebrate their learning, they prepared the meal during the afternoon and served it after school, everybody thoroughly enjoyed their visit to the Bradley Restaurant!