One Life

At Horbury St Peter's and Clifton Primary School, we believe that every child deserves to know how to live their one life well. Our Personal Development and PSHE curriculum is built around this simple but powerful idea: that if children know better, they will choose better.

We use One Life as our core Personal Development curriculum, rooted in recent research from psychologists, social physiologists and doctors. One Life supports the Wakefield Educational Psychology Service's mission of 'Relate to Educate' — helping schools build the intentional culture that enables children to develop, learn, adapt and thrive. It goes beyond the statutory requirements for Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) to equip pupils with the knowledge, skills and personal attributes they need to thrive — mentally, physically and socially.

The Three Strands

One Life is structured around three interconnected areas of fitness:

• Mental Fitness — helping pupils understand themselves, manage their emotions, build resilience, develop self-awareness and show up as their best selves. Pupils learn about their response system, the power of the present moment, self-compassion, bouncing back from challenges, and how to balance doing and being well.
• Social Fitness — supporting pupils to build and maintain healthy relationships with others and themselves. This includes families and friendships, respectful relationships, being safe, online relationships and cyberbullying, and understanding stereotypes and diversity.
• Physical Fitness — equipping pupils with the knowledge to look after their bodies and health. This covers physical health and exercise, healthy eating, health and prevention, basic first aid, and — for older pupils — understanding drugs, alcohol and tobacco.

Across all three strands, the content is carefully sequenced and revisited each year to ensure pupils know more, remember more and can do more with what they learn.

Complementary Programmes

To ensure full curriculum coverage, we also use KAPOW for specific areas that sit alongside One Life:

• Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)
• Online safety
• Financial and economic wellbeing

Wider Curriculum Links

Our Personal Development curriculum supports pupils' Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) development, promotes British Values, and contributes to the school's safeguarding and equality duties. It also aligns with the Ofsted framework's emphasis on Personal Development and Behaviour and Attitudes.

The One Life programme places relationships, respect, responsibility and restoration at its heart — shaping not just what pupils know, but who they are becoming.