PSHE & RSE
Our PSHE lessons aim to equip children with essential skills for life. They aim to develop the whole child through carefully planned and resourced lessons that develop the knowledge, skills and attributes children need to protect and enhance their wellbeing.
Intent (Rationale)
Through our lessons, children will learn how to stay safe and healthy, build and maintain successful relationships and become active citizens, responsibly participating in society around them. We believe that a successful PHSE curriculum is a vital tool in preparing children for life in society now and in the future. Our PSHE units aim to cover a wide range of social and emotional aspects of learning, enabling our children to develop their identity and self-esteem. The themes and topics have been carefully chosen to support the social, moral, spiritual and cultural development of our children and provide them with protective teaching on essential safeguarding issues, developing the knowledge of when and how to ask for help.
Our plans are developed from the Learning Outcomes and Core Themes provided by the PSHE Association Programme of Study, which is recommended and referred to by the DfE in all key documentation relating to PSHE provision in schools. Our plans follow the three core areas of Health and Wellbeing, Relationships and Living in the Wider World. Our lessons fulfil the requirements of 2020 Statutory Relationships and Sex Education, setting these learning intentions in the context of a broad and balanced PSHE curriculum.
Our PSHE lessons are designed to be taught in thematic units. We will teach these units as a spiral curriculum that revisits each theme every year. This will enable our children to recall and build upon previous learning, exploring the underlying principles of PSHE education regularly at a depth that is appropriate for the age and stage of our children. Our lessons signpost key words, building vocabulary to develop understanding. Teachers have the flexibility to choose from a range of resources which will help them to tailor their lessons to the maturity and needs of their class. We will also draw on the expertise of people around us and invite visitors in to enhance our lessons.
