This area of PSHE teaches children:

• What is meant by a healthy lifestyle
• How to maintain physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing
• How to manage risks to physical and emotional health and wellbeing
• Ways of keeping physically and emotionally safe
• How to manage change, including puberty, transition and loss
• How to make informed choices about health and wellbeing, and where to get help with this
• How to respond in an emergency
• To identify different influences on health and wellbeing

Pupils will learn things like the importance of personal hygiene; the physical differences between boys and girls; road safety, cycle safety and online safety; people who help us; how to talk about their feelings; and the benefits of physical activity.

This is just a snapshot of the many elements that the Health and Wellbeing core theme covers.

This theme includes:

• How to develop and maintain a variety of relationships, within a range of social and cultural contexts
• How to recognise and manage emotions within relationships
• How to respond to risky or negative relationships, including bullying and abuse
• How to respond to risky or negative relationships and ask for help
• How to respect equality and diversity in relationships

Among other things, children will learn to recognise that their behaviour can affect other people; to listen to other people and work and play cooperatively; to identify special people in their lives (parents, siblings, friends) and how they should care for each other; what physical contact is acceptable; and what to do if they’re being bullied.

Through this theme, children learn:

• About respect for themselves and others, and the importance of responsible actions and behaviour
• About rights and responsibilities as members of families, other groups and citizens
• About different groups and communities
• To respect equality and diversity, and how to be a productive member of a diverse community
• About the importance of respecting and protecting the environment
• About where money comes from, keeping it safe, and the importance of managing it effectively
• The part that money plays in people’s lives
• A basic understanding of enterprise

Some of the things your child will learn include how to make and follow group, class and school rules; what protects and harms the environment; how to make choices about spending or saving money; ways in which we are all unique and the things we have in common; about basic human rights; and to respect national, regional, religious and ethnic identities.

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