PSHE
Quality of Education
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PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic education) supports children and young people’s personal development including their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. Its aims are to help children and young people to deal with the real-life issues they face as they grow up and that they will encounter as adults. Their learning will support them both online and offline, to make informed choices about their safety, physical and mental health, enabling them to live positive and fulfilled lives.
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Through our PSHE curriculum, we aim to provide children with the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to lead confident, healthy, independent lives and to become informed, active and responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society.
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Our PSHE programme is designed to provide accurate and age-appropriate information that helps children to develop their knowledge, skills and attitudes and supports them to make informed choices. We want our pupils to understand their rights and the rights of others and to develop positive and inclusive attitudes to everyone, including those who have protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. We seek to build children’s confidence, self-esteem and positive personal attributes, and to prepare them for the next stage of their education and for adulthood.
Statutory Relationships education includes understanding friendship, family and other relationships, conflict resolution and communication skills, and dealing with bereavement and loss. Children are taught to celebrate difference, how to recognise bullying behaviour and strategies for dealing with bullying situations.
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Statutory Health education covers mental wellbeing, internet safety and harms, physical health and fitness, healthy eating, drugs, alcohol and tobacco, health and prevention, rest and exercise, basic first aid, and the physical and emotional changes associated with adolescence and puberty. Please note that we are required by law to deliver statutory lessons on adolescence and puberty and there is no parental right to withdraw children from these lessons.
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The government recommends that all primary schools have a sex education programme, tailored to the age and maturity of pupils, that teaches the facts about human reproduction. We therefore provide some non-statutory sex education in Year 6, covering how human reproduction occurs. Parents have the right to request their child be withdrawn from non-statutory sex education lessons, and the procedure for doing so is outlined in our PSHE/RSHE policy which is linked here.
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We have chosen to use the Kapow Primary RSE scheme of work, which provides full curriculum coverage, including all the statutory content, for each year group. Access to Kapow PSHE is supported by the local authority for all schools in the area, to ensure consistency of provision between schools. In addition, we have chosen to supplement Kapow with additional lessons on money and finance provided by Twinkl in partnership with Santander bank.
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