As a result of our PSHE and RSE teaching at HWCE you will see:

• Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) enables our children to become healthy, independent and responsible members of a society.
• It aims to help them understand how they are developing personally and socially, and tackles many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up.
• We strive to provide our children with learning opportunities across and beyond the curriculum, in specific lessons, circle time, special school projects and other activities that enrich pupils’ experiences.
• It allows pupils to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse society.
• Our children are encouraged to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community. 
• At HWCE, we embrace in which PSHE supports many of the principles of safeguarding and its close links to the school’s Safeguarding, SMSC and British Values Policies.
• Personal, Social, Health Education is central to our curriculum; it helps children grow and develop as individuals and as members of families and communities.
• Through PSHE, children will have the knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes they need to lead confident, healthy, independent lives, and to become informed, active and responsible citizens.
• Children are encouraged to take part in a wide range of activities and experiences across and beyond the curriculum, contributing fully to the life of their school and communities. They reflect on their experiences and understand how they are developing personally and socially, tackling many of the spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up. They learn to understand and respect our common humanity; diversity and differences so that they can go on to form the effective, fulfilling relationships that are an essential part of life and learning.
• The personal and social development of pupils underpins our curriculum. Through a carefully planned programme, supported by all who work in or with the school, we want children to leave HWCE’s ready for the transition into secondary school and adult life.  Our framework for PSHE embeds the three strands — health and wellbeing, relationships and living in the wider world, as well as the statutory aspects of the Relationships and Sex Education, and Health Education guidance.