Course Overview
With the strengthened statutory RSHE guidance coming into effect in September 2026, schools are expected to ensure PSHE—including Health Education—is delivered as a structured, progressive curriculum in which pupils build knowledge, skills and confidence over time. However, national reviews continue to highlight that assessment remains the weakest element of PSHE practice, despite being fundamental to high quality provision. Meaningful assessment not only enables teachers to identify whether learning is secure and age appropriate, but also ensures that teaching is responsive to pupil need and reflects their lived experiences. This training explores how robust, proportionate assessment can strengthen progression across the PSHE curriculum and provide reliable evidence of pupil learning in areas such as mental wellbeing, personal safety, and online behaviour—key priorities of the revised guidance.
Why Attend?
· From September 2026, the updated statutory Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) guidance places even stronger emphasis on ensuring that each school’s PSHE programme reflects its local needs, community context and pupil experience. Schools must design curricula that are responsive, evidence informed and aligned with the specific challenges, diversity and strengths of their setting.
· This CPD explores how schools can use meaningful consultation, high quality data and community engagement to design a PSHE curriculum that meets statutory expectations while remaining deeply relevant to the lived realities of their pupils. The revised guidance highlights the need for curriculum content that reflects real-world issues children encounter—including mental wellbeing, online harms, personal safety, social relationships and community context.
· You will examine the updated principles for RSHE curriculum design, which require schools to:
· know local and national health and societal trends
· consult with pupils and parents
· ensure transparency in curriculum development
· use high quality evidence to shape planning and resource selection.
What will it cover?
· Using data to identify your school’s unique PSHE priorities · Learn how to draw on safeguarding reports, attendance patterns, wellbeing surveys, pastoral trends and local community intelligence to shape curriculum decisions, as recommended by the DfE’s expectations for contextualised RSHE provision.
· Meaningful pupil consultation
· Explore approaches for gathering authentic pupil voice—through surveys, focus groups or reflective tasks—to ensure your curriculum responds to pupils’ lived experience, particularly around mental wellbeing, online behaviour, safety, and relationships.
· Effective and transparent parent consultation
· Understand how to conduct open, constructive consultation with parents, in line with statutory expectations that schools must share representative materials, listen to parent concerns, and demonstrate how decisions have been shaped.
· Building a responsive, progressive programme
· Discover how to integrate consultation outcomes and contextual data into a PSHE curriculum map that is progressive, developmental and aligned to the new statutory content.
Who should attend?
PSHE leads, Safeguarding leads, School leaders, teachers with responsibility for delivering PSHE
Cost £105 per delegate. All costs are subject to VAT. Failure to cancel or non-attendance will incur costs. All cancellations must be completed online at www.sil-ltd.co.uk at least 48 hours in advance.
