Summary

Our school is committed to providing all students with a broad and balanced curriculum that promotes good behaviour  and spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. The provision of a comprehensive, developmental PSHE education programme is central to our school’s approach.

Our PSHE education programme recognises that children will bring prior learning and real life experiences to their learning. We provide PSHE education through a spiral programme that gradually expands and enriches key concepts, increases knowledge, deepens understanding and rehearses and develops key skills through a thematic approach.

Early Years Foundation Stage

Our PSHE programme for the Early Years is delivered in accordance with Development Matters in the Early Years Foundation Stage. Personal, Social and Emotional Development is a prime area of learning and comprises three aspects: Making Relationships, Self-confidence and Self-awareness and Managing Feelings and Behaviour.

Key Stage 1 & Key Stage 2

Our PSHE programme for the rest of the school follows the PSHE Association’s Education Programme of Study for Key Stages 1 and 2 and is based on three ‘core themes’: Health and Wellbeing, Relationships and Living in the Wider World.

Sex and Relationships Education forms part of the PSHE programme and the Science programme. In Years 5 and 6, lessons relating to puberty, sex and relationships are taught. In the event that a parent objects to the content of a specific lesson, alternative work is provided for the relevant pupil.

Assessment

Children do not pass or fail within this area, but have the opportunity to reflect on their own learning and personal experiences and to set personal goals and agree strategies to reach them. The process of assessment has a positive impact on young people’s self-awareness and self-esteem and there are opportunities to record learning and progress in different ways, including self-assessment, peer-assessment and teacher-assessment.

Enrichment

Our PSHE curriculum is just one part of what the school does to help students to develop the knowledge, skills, attitudes and understanding they need to fulfil their potential. In addition to the timetabled lesson, class teachers are free to dedicate more curriculum time to a specific issue or area. The whole school takes part in anti-bullying week each year, we have a School Council that informs our whole school approach to PSHE and the whole school meets for assembly twice a week.