PSHE and RHE at Longshaw Infants:

Intent

To provide pupils with the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to keep themselves healthy, safe and to prepare them for life as an adult in a modern British society.

Today’s children and young people are growing up in an increasingly complex world and living their lives seamlessly on and offline. This presents many positive and exciting opportunities, but also challenges and risks. In this environment, children and young people need to know how to be safe and healthy and how to manage their academic, personal and social lives in a positive way. PSHE education aims to help pupils to achieve their academic potential and leave school equipped with skills they will need throughout later life.

Our aim is to provide a rich, balanced, flexible curriculum that is relevant to the needs of all children across school to deepen their understanding of themselves and the wider world. It will develop skills and attributes such as resilience, self-esteem, risk-management, team working and critical thinking in the context of three core themes:

• Health and Wellbeing,
• Relationships
• Living in the wider world (including economic wellbeing and aspects of careers education).

We aim to provide children with skills and knowledge to:

• Develop a caring and considerate attitude towards, themselves, others and the environment.
• Respect the difference between people and consider other views and beliefs.
• Understand their emotions/feelings and how this can affect our behaviour and wellbeing.
• Maintaining good mental health and develop personal awareness.
• Develop positive personal attributes such as resilience, self-confidence, self-esteem and empathy and have a feeling of self-worth.
• Enable children to make informed responsible choices and decisions, keeping themselves and others safe
• Encourage children to make meaningful relationships, being aware of their own/others feelings and views, when resolving disagreements.
• Manage and understand positive and negative relationships.
• Understand how our bodies work and to stay as healthy as possible.
• The skills, language and strategies they need in order to live healthy, safe and fulfil responsible and balanced lives.
• Accurate, balanced and relevant knowledge to enable them to appreciate what it means to be a positive, tolerant member of a diverse multicultural society.

By teaching pupils to stay safe and healthy, and by building self-esteem, resilience and empathy, our effective PSHE programme enables staff to tackle barriers to learning an raise aspirations for our pupils.

Implementation - Curriculum Design

The school follow the guidance of the PSHE Association which is recommended by the Department for Education, along with SCARF to compliment the planning and delivery of lessons.  

Whilst PSHE is split into three separate core themes, in reality there will always be extensive overlap. PSHE education addresses both pupils’ direct experience and preparation for their future. Therefore, we feel it is important to provide a spiral programme of knowledge, skills and attribute development, where prior learning is revisited, reinforced and extended in age and key stage appropriate contexts.  We feel that PSHE education should reflect the universal needs shared by all pupils as well as the specific needs of the pupils at our school.  The importance of children’s wellbeing and mental health is also at the forefront of the school’s curriculum and ethos, in which a whole school approach is taken.

Nursery and EYFS

In Nursery and EYFS, HRE is taught through the PSED strand of the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework and is a prime area of learning, meaning it is central to the curriculum. However, teachers also have access to the SCARF scheme to support teaching and learning and a progression document has been created to keep the whole school topics in mind.

KS1

KS1 will follow the SCARF scheme to support teaching and learning and a progression document has been created to keep the whole school topics in mind. Teachers are also encouraged to teach objectives via cross-curricular whenever possible.

The objectives are split over the year:

Autumn Term – Me and My Relationships, Valuing Difference.

Spring Term –Keeping Safe, Rights and Respect

Summer Term – Being my Best, Growing and Changing

The Long-Term Curriculum Overview has been produced for teachers to follow and implement, however if a teacher feels a particular need or has an area of concern that needs to be addressed with their cohort, alterations can be made to the overview with discussions with the subject leader. This is to ensure that the children’s, personal, social, emotional and health needs are consistently being met.