At our school, we aim to give our children the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that they need to effectively navigate the complexities of life in the 21st Century. We want pupils to be confident to make informed choices now and in the future around their health, safety, wellbeing, relationships, and financial matters and through our teaching, we hope that we will support them in becoming confident individuals and active members of society.

We believe that it is crucial for children at Barnacre Road to have an understanding of the world they are growing up in and that they learn to co-exist and demonstrate respect toward all individuals. Our curriculum introduces and revisits ideas of personal boundaries, consent and communicating our boundaries with others, with the intention that we will prepare our pupils for the challenges and responsibilities they will face in the future, in an ever-changing world.

At Barnacre Road, we follow the Kapow scheme of work for PSHE. Kapow Primary’s PSHE scheme of work enables pupils to meet the statutory guidance for Relationships and Health Education, including the non-statutory aspect of sex education as well as wider PSHE learning, in line with the requirement of the National curriculum (2014) that schools ‘should make provision for personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE). For EYFS, the teaching allows pupils to work towards the “Personal, social and emotional development” Early Learning Goal / Development Matters statement, while also laying the foundations of understanding and knowledge that will support them in their further PSHE learning in KS1