PSHE resources
Whilst there are many PSHE resources available, it remains a school decision as to which are the best for your school and your pupils. No single resource should be used without detailed consideration of the need to adapt lessons and respond to the current, local and national circumstances that impact on pupils.
Below is a list of resources known to be being used in Hertfordshire schools at the time of publishing:
The PSHE Association provides guidance on developing the PSHE curriculum, and a resource library which offers high-quality resources — from planning frameworks to detailed lesson plans. The resources are either developed by the Association or quality assured by them against best practice criteria.
Please let us know if you have other highly recommended resources in your school.
Body positivity
To help schools and colleges to promote body positivity, the Public Health team, with input from a range of partners and schools, have developed some guidance pulling together free to access, quality assured, information and resources.
Online support programme
Hertfordshire has commissioned a 4 week programme called “First Step ED skills”. It offers free online workshops for Hertfordshire parents, carers and older siblings, who are supporting a young person with their body image, disordered eating and/or eating disorders. find out more at:
Promotion of breastfeeding within PSHE
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, among others, have called for breastfeeding to be taught in schools as one way to fill this knowledge gap and contribute to the ‘renormalisation’ of breastfeeding in the UK.
These materials are free for use in schools and contain lesson plans and resources for use in settings from Early Years Foundation Stage through to Key Stage 3.