PSHE
Meryfield PHSE - Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE)
At Meryfield Primary School, PSHE supports children’s personal development, wellbeing and understanding of the wider world. Through an age-appropriate, carefully sequenced curriculum, we help pupils develop the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to lead healthy, safe and fulfilling lives and to make positive contributions to their school and wider community.
We deliver PSHE through the Jigsaw programme, a mindful, whole-school approach that promotes kindness, respect, inclusion and belonging. Jigsaw follows a progressive spiral curriculum, revisiting key themes each year to deepen understanding, develop resilience and support children as they grow and change.
Children explore six core areas:
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Being Me in My World – developing identity, belonging and responsibility
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Celebrating Difference – understanding and respecting diversity and difference
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Dreams and Goals – developing aspirations, resilience and motivation
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Healthy Me – supporting physical and mental wellbeing and making healthy choices
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Relationships – developing positive, respectful and safe relationships
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Changing Me – understanding growth, puberty, change and preparing for the next stage of life
Our PSHE curriculum incorporates the statutory requirements for Relationships Education and Health Education, alongside age-appropriate learning about relationships, personal safety, online safety, mental wellbeing, physical health, healthy lifestyles, puberty and growing up. Where appropriate, this learning is complemented by Science and our wider safeguarding, computing and personal development curriculum.
Our curriculum is aligned with the Department for Education’s statutory Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education guidance for implementation from September 2026. We regularly review our curriculum to ensure that it remains appropriate, inclusive and responsive to the needs of our pupils.
At Meryfield, we are committed to nurturing kind, confident, respectful and resilient individuals who understand how to look after themselves and others and are prepared to thrive in an ever-changing world.
For further information, please see our curriculum overview.
