PSHE and RSE
Personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) is an important and necessary part of all pupils’ education.
Relationships and sex education (RSE) forms a statutory part of PSHE education.
Teaching the subjects
Although some parts of PSHE are non-statutory, all schools should teach it. The subject contributes to the ‘personal development’ of pupils that the 2019 Ofsted inspection framework considers.
Relationships education is compulsory for all primary school pupils, and RSE is compulsory for all secondary school pupils. For more information visit the Department for Education's statutory guidance.
The PSHE Association
The PSHE Association is the national body for PSHE education. It offers its members a wide range of CPD training and resources, including SEND-specific resources, lesson plans and assessment tools to help schools to develop their high-quality PSHE education.
Resources are also available for the following topics:
- RSE
- Physical health
- Mental health
- Drug, alcohol and tobacco
- Growing and changing
- Personal safety
- Bullying and discrimination
- Media and digital literacy
- Money and work
- Community and responsibility
- Engaging parents and Governors about RSE for primary and secondary schools
For more information email info@pshe-association.org.uk.
Free memberships
In the 2023 and 2024 academic years, we are funding 70 free memberships to the PSHE Association. Any Wandsworth maintained primary, secondary or special school is eligible for this first come first served offer.
For more information and to claim your free membership email info@pshe-association.org.uk.
Resources
The Department for Education and Wandsworth Council recommend that schools use PSHE Association resources.
Coram Life Education - SCARF
SCARF provides primary and secondary schools with fully resourced, progressive PSHE scheme. It covers relationships, health, wellbeing and drugs education. Schools can sign up for a free six week trial of SCARF resources, including an online tour so that they can see how SCARF can meet the RSHE and PSHE requirements for their school.
Jigsaw
Jigsaw offers a comprehensive set of resources to help teach PSHE and health and wellbeing to pupils aged 3 to 16 years old.
Life to the Full (Ten:Ten)
This is a fully resourced scheme of work in Relationships and Health Education (RHE) for Catholic primary and secondary schools.
Christopher Winter Project
The Christopher Winter Project (CWP) offers a whole-school scheme of work covering RSE and Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco Education for primary schools
Templates
The Healthy Schools programme has provided the following templates for RSE and PSHE education:
Sex education
The organisations below provide guidance and resources for sex education.
Better Health - Every Mind Matters
The Every Mind Matters resource page was developed by Public Health England. It contains PSHE, relationships and health education (RHE) and RSE resources, including lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations and videos directed at KS2, KS3 and KS4 students.
Topics covered by the resources include:
- Relationships
- Positive friendships
- Bullying
- Cyberbullying
- Self-care, physical and mental wellbeing
- Worry
- Social media
- Sleep
- Alcohol
- Exam stress
- Body image in a digital world
Getting it on
Getting it on offers information and services for 13 to 19 year olds on sexual and mental health issues, drug and alcohol and relationship problems. It is a safe informative website where secondary school teachers can signpost students covering six south west London boroughs.
Teachers can introduce this website to students using the GIO Lesson Plan and also share the information with parents through school news letters or individual contacts with parents.
NSPCC PANTS
NSPCC PANTS has provided resources for teachers to help children to keep save from sexual abuse.
Schools can also share parents resources but signposting to Talk PANTS.
Brook
Brook provides free RSE resources for schools and professionals.
Sex Education Forum
The Sex Education Forum offers RSE teaching resources and guidelines including:
Diversity Role Models
Diversity Role Models is a charity working with schools to end LGBTQ+ bullying by harnessing the power of storytelling to build empathy and celebrate difference. They offer student workshops for primary and secondary schools, staff training and parent and care workshops.
Stonewall
Stonewall is an organisation that is passionate about the rights of the LGBTQ+ community. They provide resources, primary and secondary school toolkits and guidance for schools to create a supportive, inclusive environment for all.
Children's Commissioner
‘A lot of it is actually just abuse’ – Young people and pornography is a report by the Children's Commissioner. It highlights the harm pornography can have on children and young people's future relationships.
Fantasy vs Reality
The Fantasy vs Reality lesson plans for KS3 and KS4 helps to promote skills of children and young people to critically review the impact and influences of media and pornography.
Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC)
The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC), jointly with Tender, developed The Ending Gender-Based Violence toolkit for teachers to tackle the attitudes which perpetuate gender-based violence and to support safeguarding and the PSHE curriculum.
RSE guides for parents
The government have produced some useful guides for parents. of primary and secondary age pupils that schools can use to communicate with them about teaching relationships and health education.
Exploitation support pack for parents and carers
We have developed a support pack for local parents and carers who are concerned that their child is, or could be, experiencing exploitation.
View the parents and carers support pack.
The pack is primarily for parents whose children have experienced exploitation either by their peers or adults. It is designed to help parents and carers reduce the risk of further exploitation, help understand what is happening if it does and provides tips, helpful information, and guidance to protect and support their child going forwards.