At Northside Primary Relationship, Social, Health Education (RSHE) enables all our children to become healthy, independent and responsible members within our community. Its aims to help our children understand to develop personally and socially, and equips them with the skills of the moral, social and cultural issues that are a part of growing up. We provide our children with opportunities to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse Northside and British society.  

Northside children come from a range of cultures and backgrounds, speaking over 40 different languages, and aim to create a happy community. Differences are celebrated and forge school cultural links, behaviour is a strength of the school and Northside children are Happy to Learn and Inspired to Flourish. 

The curriculum reflects the needs of our children and is tailored through the use of differentiation in planning and SEND support plans. Teachers use the RSHE programmes to equip our children with an understanding of risk and with the knowledge and skills necessary to make safe and informed decisions. All staff will further develop the children’s knowledge of local, national, global and current events and issues.

The curriculum is split into three core themes of: Relationships, Living in the Wider World and Health and Wellbeing. The children will meet these themes and the skills and knowledge are built upon through the year. Throughout the programme of study the children should have a balance of overarching concepts:

Identity, Career/money, Relationships, A healthy balanced life style, Identification of risk and safety, Diversity and equality, Rights, responsibilities and consent, Change and resilience and Power

In EYFS: 

Provision is planned to ensure development in Physical, Social and Emotional Development (PSED). Children will explore the ideas of relationships, feelings and appropriate behaviours, self-confidence and self-awareness, rules and routines, empathy and restorative justice.

In KS1 and KS2: 

The statutory framework, British Values and Northside Values are taught every half term. Topics include: Respecting Ourselves and others, Families and Friendships, Safe Relationships, Media Literacy and Digital Resilience, Belonging to a community, Money and Work, Keeping Safe, Physical Health and Mental Wellbeing and lastly, Growing and Changing.

All pupils will have weekly RSHE lessons. Themed assemblies occur each week. A meaningful RSHE curriculum is key to children becoming confident, tolerant and well-rounded young adults who contribute positively to society. Children will leave Northside as respectful, inclusive, creative members of their community who are proud of their achievements and resilient to challenge.