PSHE and RSE

Personal, Social, Health Education & Relationships and Sex Education

At Willingdon Primary School, we teach PSHE using the Jigsaw Scheme of work. Jigsaw, the mindful approach to PSHE, is a progressive and spiral scheme of learning. In planning the lessons, Jigsaw PSHE ensures that learning from previous years is revisited and extended, adding new concepts, knowledge and skills, year on year as appropriate. The Map below draws out the spiral knowledge and skills progression within all six Puzzles (units of work) including the key vocabulary used in each year group; explicit links to the DfE statutory Relationships and Health Education outcomes have been made in each Puzzle.

eyfs year 6 curriculum overview.pdf

Through regular PSHE lessons, the children are given the space to be mindful and reflect upon their own thoughts and opinions, to listen to the ideas of others and to challenge any prejudices, stereotypes or negative ideas. The lessons are an opportunity to discuss, think deeply and develop their own personal views. They also support our Online Safety curriculum to teach our children how to keep themselves safe in a digital world.

pshe policy 2026.pdf

You’ll find the Jigsaw Knowledge Organisers for Term 1 attached. They include the key vocabulary your child will be learning, simple questions you can use to spark conversations at home, and helpful links if you’d like to explore the topics together.

The download below includes words which have been carefully chosen to help pupils explore the topics within each Puzzle, whilst also equipping them with language that matters for their relationships and understanding of the world around them. By using this vocabulary consistently, we will be actively supporting children's emotional literacy, giving them the words they need to understand and express how they feel.

emotional literacy progression.pdf