R(S)HE at Drew

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).

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

The RSHE Lead at Drew is Julie Clancy.

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