Personal, Health and Relationships Education

Personal, Health and Relationships Education (PHRE) is a term used to combine the areas of personal, health and relationships education. PHRE is about the emotional, social and cultural development of pupils and involves learning about relationships, healthy lifestyles, diversity, personal identity and how to keep safe both in the real world and online.

We believe that Personal, Health, Relationships Education (PHRE) is the foundation of a child’s learning. It helps give children the skills and understanding they need to be morally good, healthy and independent citizens. In addition, it gives our children the opportunity to learn about their rights and understand how their actions affect others. We want our children to know and experience the components of safe relationships - in the real world and online. 

In order to prepare pupils for their future learning in PHRE, we aim to introduce them to the key substantive concepts:

• Families and people who care for me
• Respectful and caring relationships
• Keeping myself safe: online and in the real world
• Keeping my brain healthy
• Keeping my body healthy
• My changing body 

We have designed a bespoke curriculum, which reflects the context of the community we serve. Our PHRE currciulum has several strands, which include:

Learning about emotions and the language we can use to describe our different feelings

Learning about the neuroscience of our brains and how this impacts on our mental well-being

Learning about how to conduct ourselves online and how to navigate the online world safely

Learning about different types of families and how our relationships with others develop and change as we get older

Learning about the physical differences we experience as our  bodies grown and change