Our approach to the mixed-age RSE & PSHE curriculum 

This printable PDF document provides a detailed overview of Kapow Primary’s mixed-age RSE & PSHE scheme of work, designed to support mixed-age settings arranged into Y1/2, Y3/4 and Y5/6 classes.

The plan organises RSE & PSHE units into a rolling two-year programme, with Cycle A and Cycle B units taught alternatively. This allows teachers to confidently deliver a well-structured, mixed-age RSE & PSHE scheme aligned with the DoE’s statutory guidance and the PSHE Association’s Programme of Study.

What does the mixed-age RSE & PSHE plan contain?

The plan outlines the progression of skills and knowledge in RSE & PSHE, ensuring that pupils build upon their learning each year in a spiral curriculum.

It covers the statutory requirements of the National curriculum, details the RSE & PSHE skills and knowledge taught and offers guidance on primary RSE & PSHE assessment and the scheme’s implementation.

How does Kapow Primary’s RSE & PSHE scheme develop knowledge and skills?

This document provides a suggested long-term plan for mixed-age year groups, ensuring a clear pathway for pupil learning. Progression is broken down into the following key areas:

• Families and relationships – learning how to recognise and form positive relationships with family and friends; identifying how to deal with conflict and bullying.
• Health and wellbeing – learning strategies for maintaining physical and mental health, including hygiene, exercise, healthy eating, sleep and self-awareness.
• Safety and the changing body – learning how to stay safe in a variety of online and offline situations; what to do in an emergency; naming parts of the body; distinguishing between appropriate and inappropriate physical contact; identifying the physical and emotional changes of puberty.
• Citizenship – recognising the importance of rules; caring for others and the local environment; learning about rights, responsibilities and the importance of participation in community life.
• Economic wellbeing – exploring what money is, ways to earn it and how to take care of it.

What other Kapow Primary resources support primary RSE & PSHE teaching? 

• If you follow our mixed-age long-term plan, see the corresponding Progression of skills and knowledge – mixed-age version.
• If you follow our Long-term plan – condensed, see Progression of skills and knowledge – condensed.
• To further explore Cycle A and Cycle B of the mixed-age scheme, browse our Mixed-age units.