PSHE
At Leatherhead Trinity, we aim to provide pupils with the knowledge, understanding, attitudes, values, and skills they need to reach their potential both as individuals and within the community.
Our PSHE Curriculum
We teach our PSHE lessons through the Kapow Primary scheme. This scheme is a spiral curriculum designed to ensure 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. Pupils build on what they have already learnt, making connections rather than starting again.
Developing Empathy, Integrity, and Self-Awareness
Our PSHE lessons encourage pupils to think with empathy, integrity, and self-awareness, recognising how their actions and attitudes contribute to their communities. The curriculum supports them in developing respect for diversity, managing change, and understanding their rights and responsibilities as citizens.
Building Foundations for Safeguarding and Emotional Wellbeing
PSHE lessons at Leatherhead Trinity are designed to build a strong foundation for safeguarding, preparing pupils to navigate an increasingly complex world with confidence and care. The lessons promote emotional literacy, resilience, and a sense of personal agency, helping pupils to approach life’s challenges with maturity and compassion.
Encouraging Active Participation and Personal Growth
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. Through this, 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 their personal and social development, tackling many spiritual, moral, social, and cultural issues relevant to growing up.
Promoting Respect, Diversity, and Effective Relationships
Pupils learn to understand and respect our common humanity, diversity, and differences. This helps them appreciate empowering values and form effective, fulfilling relationships that are essential for life and learning.
Upcoming Changes to Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)
The Department for Education has announced changes to Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) statutory guidance, effective from September 2026. All schools are required to comply with the updated requirements. The Kapow scheme we follow is already revising its RSE and PSHE curriculum in response to this guidance, and we will implement these changes in September 2026.
Additional Information and Resources
Please find below details of the proposed changes, a copy of our RSE Policy, an overview of our PSHE curriculum, an RSE guide for parents, and the Department for Education's FAQs.