Personal, Social, Health and Relationship Education

At Bourton Meadow Academy, we recognise the value of Personal, Social, Health Education (PSHE), which includes relationship education, and we offer a bespoke curriculum which is responsive to the ever-changing needs of our children. This means that we are constantly reviewing our curriculum and can add content or change the order of the units we teach to ensure that children learn aspects of the curriculum at the most appropriate time. This enables us to respond to the individual circumstances of our current cohort.

Our PSHE curriculum is structured around three key strands:

Health and Wellbeing (healthy lifestyles, self-esteem, dental hygiene)

Relationships (friendships, feelings, healthy relationships consent)

Living in the Wider World (rules, respect, responsibilities, safety, money)

A wide range of units are covered within each strand, with some examples shown in the brackets

above. Key themes are revisited as children move through the school, ensuring the curriculum is age-appropriate with opportunities for children to explore ideas in greater depth as they become older and prepare for the next stage of their journey.

We aim to motivate and educate children to become healthy, independent and responsible members of society. Our PSHE closely links with our school values and aims to promote and prepare pupils to understand how they are developing personally and socially and how to tackle some moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up. 

From September 2024, children will be using a PSHRE journal to record their learning in this subject. This journal will move with the children through the school, enabling them to reflect on their personal growth in terms of their developing knowledge, attitudes and values.

Relationship, Sex and Health Education (RSHE)

For more information about our relationship education and sex education, both of which are taught through the PSHRE curriculum, please click on the links below.