RSHE
High quality, evidence-based teaching of relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) can help prepare pupils for the opportunities and responsibilities of adult life, and can promote their moral, social, mental and physical development.
Effective teaching will support young people to cultivate positive characteristics including resilience, self-worth, self-respect, honesty, integrity, courage, kindness, and trustworthiness. Effective teaching will support prevention of harms by helping young people understand and identify when things are not right. (DFE, 2025)
Intent, Implementation and impact
intent
- To provide a comprehensive, progressive RSHE curriculum that supports children’s wellbeing, relationships, and understanding of the world around them.
- To enable all pupils to develop the skills to form positive, respectful relationships and understand how to keep themselves physically and emotionally safe.
- To promote the core SCARF values: Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience, and Friendship – embedding them across school life.
- To ensure children understand diversity, inclusion, and respect for different families, cultures, and beliefs.
- To prepare children for key transitions (e.g. puberty, moving to secondary school) in an age-appropriate and sensitive way.
- To ensure statutory RSHE requirements are met while also addressing the specific needs of our school community.
- To engage and be transparent with parents about the content and materials we are using in RSHE.
implementation
- Teaching weekly through SCARF’s six themed half-termly units, which provide a clear and consistent structure across all year groups:
- Me and My Relationships
- Valuing Difference
- Keeping Myself Safe
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Being My Best
- Growing and Changing
- Building on prior learning, allowing progression from EYFS to Year 6 with age-appropriate content and vocabulary.
- Providing lessons that are interactive and inclusive, using SCARF’s high-quality resources such as stories, discussion prompts, role-play, and reflection tasks.
- Adapting lessons to the needs of their class, with support from SCARF’s differentiated materials for SEND and EAL learners.
- Reinforcing key messages through whole-school assemblies, themed weeks (e.g. Anti-Bullying Week), and links to other curriculum areas such as Science and Computing.
- Delivering Puberty education in upper Key Stage 2 using SCARF’s “Growing and Changing” unit, with clear communication to parents.
- Providing Staff with CPD and ongoing support to deliver RSHE confidently and handle sensitive topics appropriately.
impact
From monitoring we have seen that it has allowed;
- Pupils talk confidently about relationships, emotions, safety, and healthy lifestyles, using appropriate vocabulary taught through SCARF and the use of our zones of regulation resources around the school.
- Children demonstrate the SCARF values in everyday interactions – showing respect, resilience, empathy and care.
- Pupil voice (via school council, feedback surveys and informal discussions) shows high engagement with SCARF lessons.
- Teachers report improved emotional literacy and behaviour in class, with pupils better able to resolve conflicts and express feelings.
- Safeguarding logs and pupil disclosures indicate children know how to identify trusted adults and ask for help.
- Lesson assessments (provided within SCARF) show good understanding and retention of key RSHE concepts.
- Children are well-prepared for puberty and secondary school transitions by the end of Year 6.