R(S)HE

Changes to the R(S)HE Curriculum for September 2026

The RSHE curriculum was updated in September 2026. New guidance builds positively upon what we already teach, with a stronger focus on the realities children face today, particularly online. 

For primary-aged children, the key updates include:

• Enhanced Online Safety: Greater emphasis on navigating digital spaces safely, understanding age-restricted content, and recognising online boundaries.
• Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing: Expanded focus on helping children identify and manage complex feelings, including building resilience, and understanding grief, loss, and loneliness.
• Practical Personal Safety: New, explicit content to help children recognise risks around roads, railways, fire, and water safety.
• Body Protection & Safeguarding: Reaffirming best practice by teaching children accurate anatomical vocabulary for body parts. This is a vital safeguarding tool that reduces stigma and empowers children to speak up if they ever feel unsafe.
• Diverse Families: Ensuring our lessons continue to reflect and respect the diverse family structures within our modern British society (such as single parents, same-sex parents, foster carers, and blended families).

Why R(S)HE is important

We want Sheringham children to grow up to be happy, confident and respectful adults ready to face the challenges and responsibilities they will face. Relationship (Sex) and Health Education is a subject through which pupils develop the knowledge, skills and attributes to stay healthy, safe and to prepare them for life and work in modern Britain. We believe our current situation makes it more important than ever that children have this safe place to share their feelings, worries and questions.  

Children in years 1-6 will have a weekly lesson covering the Oak National Academy Curriculum.

Children in Reception and our specialist provision have access to this content through the age and developmentally appropriate content and social stories,  to support their understanding. 

Our school assemblies are often linked to content covered within the RHE curriculum. Teachers integrate aspects of Relationship & Health Education into the curriculum through other areas such as geography and science. At Sheringham, we are proud of how we safeguard our children through workshops, to ensure that every child knows how to keep themselves safe. 

The teaching of R(S)HE follows our school policy. The aim of it is to support children in developing safe relationships, self-esteem and making well-informed decisions. We use an evidence-based curriculum, which is also funded by the DfE called Oak National Academy. All statutory lessons are covered from Autumn through to Summer in line with the school policy. Year 6 parents will be invited every year before we teach the non-statutory lesson about conception. This gives families a chance to discuss the lessons and see more resources.

RSHE Lead / Contact Details

The RSHE Lead at Sheringham Primary School is Ms Seamons. 

Please contact the school via info@sheringham.lihtrust.uk if you have any questions.

Curriculum Map

Please click here to view our curriculum map for R(S)HE

R(S)HE Policy

Here you can find our RSHE Primary policy, which includes the curriculum map and how we will communicate with families.

Parent Consultation Slides

Here are the R(S)HE consultation slides we shared with our community in June 2026.