PSHE
At Leatherhead Trinity we aim to provide pupils with the knowledge, understanding, attitudes, values and skills they need in order to reach their potential as individuals and within the community. We teach our PSHE lessons through Kapow Primary scheme. This scheme is a spiral curriculum which is designed to ensure our pupils revisit the five key areas of RSE & PSHE throughout their time at primary school. It provides increasing depth, meaning each time a key area is revisited, it is explored with greater maturity and complexity. The pupils at Leatherhead Trinity build on what they have already learnt, making connections rather than starting again.
Our PSHE lessons encourages pupils to think with empathy, integrity and self-awareness, recognising how their actions and attitudes contribute to their communities. It supports them in developing respect for diversity, managing change and understanding their rights and responsibilities as citizens. Our PSHE lessons are designed to build a strong foundation for safeguarding, preparing pupils to navigate an increasingly complex world with confidence and care. Furthermore, our lessons promote emotional literacy, resilience and a sense of personal agency, helping pupils to approach life’s challenges with maturity and compassion.
Pupils are encouraged to take part in a wide range of activities and experiences across and beyond the curriculum, contributing fully to the life of their school and communities. In doing so they learn to recognise their own worth, work well with others and become increasingly responsible for their own learning. They reflect on their experiences and understand how they are developing personally and socially, tackling many of the spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up. Pupils learn to understand and respect our common humanity, diversity and differences, so that they can appreciate empowering values and go on to form the effective, fulfilling relationships that are an essential part of life and learning.
The Department for Education has announced changes to Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) statutory guidance. These changes will come into effect from September 2026 and all schools are required to comply with the updated requirements. The scheme we follow are already revising their RSE and PSHE scheme of work in response to the guidance and we will be implementing this in September 2026.
Please find below details of the proposed changes, a copy of our RHSE Policy, an overview of our PSHE curriculum, an RSE guide for parents and the DfE's FAQs.