PSHE & RSE

PSHRE is an integral part of our curriculum. At Martello Primary we want children to be able to feel comfortable in their own skin, celebrate uniqueness and diversity, know how to support their peers as well as stay safe online, in school and in their community. 

Our curriculum has been designed with the children and our diverse community in mind.

We have developed our curriculum using the PSHE Association Programme of Study, incorporating its fourteen learning opportunities. These are aligned with the updated statutory guidance for PSHE and Relationships and Sex Education (RSE), effective from September 2026.

Core Themes: 

• Families and people who care for me 

• Respectful, kind relationships

• Being safe

• Wellbeing online

• Healthy eating

• Health protection and prevention 

• Basic first aid

• Caring friendships

• Online safety and awareness

• General wellbeing

• Physical health and fitness

• Drugs, alcohol, tobacco and vaping 

• Personal safety

• Developing bodies

At Martello, we believe children need the self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence to:

• Keep themselves healthy

• Keep themselves and others safe

• Recognise and build healthy relationships

• Respect differences and similarities between people

• Develop independence and responsibility

• Prepare for life in a modern, democratic Britain

• Be aware of, and utilise their own and others’ abilities

Our aim is that through the teaching of PSHE, pupils will develop the knowledge, skills and attributes to value their own achievements, asses and deal with risk appropriately and become aware of their own values, whilst celebrating and respecting those of others.

Children will explore the world around them and participate in a range of learning opportunities through a range of medium including drama, role play, enquiry, discussion, circle times and active learning.

Each new term, learning focused on an overarching theme linked to PSHE and our school Values (Bravery, Kindness and Responsibility). Objectives drawn from the aforementioned documentation and outline learning for each year group at age appropriate levels. Weaved throughout this learning are themes surrounding well-being, diversity and citizenship. British Values are revisited across the year and taught explicitly in Term 1.

For this academic year our PSHE and Values learning is focused as follows:

• Our School, Our Community & British Values

• Healthy Relationships: Your words can hurt (including anti-bullying week)

• Keeping Safe (including Online Safety)

• Mental Health and Self Awareness: It’s Good to be me!

• Economic Wellbeing and Aspirations

• Growing and Changing

However, PSHE learning is also interwoven across all aspects of our curriculum, including assemblies. 

We use Kapow Primary’s RSE scheme of work to cover the Relationships and Health Education statutory guidance from September 2026, including the non-statutory sex education. Sex education has been included in line with the DfE recommendations and is covered in Year 6 of our scheme.

If you would like to find out more about Kapow's RSE curriculum please click here: https://www.kapowprimary.com/subjects/rse-pshe/curriculum/rse-pshe-parent-information/

Online Safety: 

Martello’s computing and e-safety is built upon:

Computing: The ‘Teach Computing’ Curriculum

E-Safety: Project Evolve

Project Evolve:

An online safety curriculum developed and resources through a number of high profile agencies and specialists within the Online safety field. It prepares the children for the digital world across 8 different strands.

Children are provided with:

Relevant, coherent, progressive computing education that equips them to use computational thinking and creativity.

Within each strand there is a set of progressive objectives covered. The objectives have been mapped into the PSHE and Computing curriculum and are taught on a weekly basis from Years 1-6 computer science -The principles of information and computation, how digital systems work, and how to put this knowledge to use through programming.

Opportunities to create programs, systems and a range of content.

Opportunities to express themselves and develop their ideas through information and communication technology at a level suitable for the future workplace and as active participants in a digital world.