At Holtspur School and Pre-School, we intend to provide a whole school PSHE curriculum that develops the needs of every child in a safe, nurturing environment where our values of ‘Ready, Respectful, Safe, Kind, Unique’ enable children to thrive emotionally and socially. We want children at Holtspur to deepen their personal, social, health and emotional development using the ‘Jigsaw’ scheme, whilst also expanding upon their prior knowledge using skills they have been taught through lessons (including Oracy training) as they progress through the school. We aim for all children, regardless as to their: age, gender or sexuality, race, religious beliefs (or none) or academic ability, to be able to articulate their thoughts in a safe environment that embraces every child’s uniqueness in the world today.

We want to provide a safe space for the children to enjoy PSHE, by providing them with the skills to make safe and informed choices, taking responsibility for their actions, respecting and valuing difference and being the best person that they can possibly be embedding Protected Characteristics. British Values are also embedded throughout the curriculum where possible and children have their own voices heard at School Council meetings, subject specific surveys and end of year pupil voice surveys; all results are analysed and fed back to staff, governors, parents and the children with any key areas addressed as soon as is practically possible. Holtspur aims to develop pupils’ acceptance and understanding of others regardless of their background, religion, race, gender or sexuality.

Throughout school, we want to provide effective Relationship and Sex Education, to enable the children to make responsible and well-informed decisions about their lives, to help and support them through their physical and emotional development. It is our aim to help pupils to learn to respect themselves and others and move with confidence from primary education into the next phase of their lives and beyond. Below is the content of the RSE curriculum that is progressively sequenced and taught across Reception – Year 6. This RSE coverage and policy is updated inline with the new 2026 DFE statatory guidance for schools.