Halfway Nursery Infant School
Relationships and Health Education (RSHE)
As part of your child’s educational experience at Halfway Nursery Infant School, we aim to promote personal wellbeing and development through a comprehensive programme of Personal, Social and Emotional Education (PSHE) that gives children and young people the knowledge, understanding, attitudes and practical skills to live healthy, safe, productive and fulfilled lives both now and in the future.
Since 2020 RSHE forms part of the National Curriculum. The statutory guidance can be found here.
​All schools providing primary education need to teach both Relationships Education and Health Education (please note that Relationships Education is not the same as Relationships and Sex Education). As a school, our curriculum is based upon the Sheffield agreed syllabus for RSHE. However, we have supplemented this curriculum with additional opportunities to look at safeguarding (both off and online) and the Zones of Regultion.
Our RSHE curriculum focuses on healthy relationships and keeping children safe in the modern world. It also covers a wide range of topics relating to physical development, mental health, wellbeing and safeguarding. Learning about the emotional, social and physical aspects of growing up will give children and young people the information, skills and positive values to have safe, fulfilling relationships and help them to take responsibility for their own wellbeing.
As detailed in our policy, age appropriate biological aspects related to this curriculum are taught within the science curriculum. It is a statutory requirement and part of the science curriculum for children to name external body parts at Key Stage 1, and it is recommended that we start to use some correct terminology of body parts to promote safeguarding.
Parents/carers do not have the right to withdraw their child from any aspect of Relationship or Health education, although parents/carers do have the right to withdraw their children from the non-statutory/non-science components of sex education within Relationships and Sex Education (for children in Key Stage 2).
RSHE Policy
EYFS PSHE yearly overview
KS1 yearly curriculum overview
Zones of regulation
At school, one way in which we support children with understanding and managing their own emotions and wellbeing is through The Zones of Regulation. This is a curriculum that aims to help children understand and manage their emotions effectively, with the concept of self-regulation at the core.
Regulation is something everyone continually works on whether we are aware of it or not. We all encounter trying circumstances that can test our limits. If we can recognise when we are becoming less regulated, we are able to do something about it to manage our feelings and get ourselves to a healthy place. This comes more naturally for some, but for others it is a skill that needs more attention and practice. This is the goal of The Zones of Regulation​.
For children especially, feelings are complicated. They come in different intensities and levels that are unique within our brains and bodies. As a way to make them easier to talk about and regulate, The Zones of Regulation organises our feelings into four coloured Zones- Blue, Green, Yellow and Red. These colour zones not only help organise feelings but levels of alertness and energy levels too. This very visual and clear for all learners as well as those who support them.
It is important to stress that all the colour zones are ok! We routinely experience several zones across the day and it is vital that we don’t covey the message that the Green Zone is the only acceptable Zone to be in.
