PSHE AND RSE AT SIMONSTONE ST.PETERS
SUBJECT LEADERSHIP
Mrs J Booth and Mrs J Cockings
Mr Haworth (Link Governor)
intent
PSHE refers to the teaching of Personal, Social, Health and Economic education. Our aim is to provide a rich curriculum to all children across the school to deepen their understanding of themselves and the wider world.
We aim to provide the children with skills and knowledge to:
- Understand their emotions/feelings and how this can affect their behaviours and wellbeing;
- Help our children develop self-confidence and a feeling of worth;
- Develop a caring and considerate attitude toward themselves, others and the environment;
- Help our children form and maintain meaningful relationships and to understand how to manage their feelings;
- Enable our pupils to make informed choices about their lives and respond to peer pressure;
- Understand their bodies, how they work and the changes which take place;
- Understand how society works, together with the rights and responsibilities of each individual child;
- Encourage involvement with school life.
As outlined in the Department for Education guidelines (updated September 2021), at Simonstone St Peters we will seek to use PSHE Education to “build, where appropriate, on the statutory content already outlined in the national curriculum, the basic school curriculum and in statutory guidance on: drug education, financial education, sex and relationship education (SRE) and the importance of physical activity and diet for a healthy lifestyle.”
implementation
Here at Simonstone St Peter's we deliver a full, discrete PSHE curriculum from EYFS to year 6 - following a sequence of knowledge through the PSHE Association guidance, which was written alongside the 2014 National Curriculum, along with Coram Life Education SCARF. Children cover the three core themes of health and wellbeing, relationships and living in the wider world through a personalised curriculum. Every class experiences a discrete lesson once a week, but we also access PSHE resources to support other subjects and adapt our teaching and discussions to meet the needs of individual children, groups and classes. We adapt daily to support children with current news and 'worry' points - PSHE is fluid within our school, to support our young people. PSHE development happens across all aspects of school life and heavily contributes to the children’s spiritual, moral, cultural, and social development. As a Christian school, our collective worship and Religious Education teaching has strong links to the PSHE Education curriculum. In addition to this, cross curricular links are made with a variety of subjects, such as Maths and Technology, where problem-solving embeds the PSHE skills. We also use outside agencies such as Bike-Ability, Coram Life Education, health professionals and the Emergency Services to engage the children.
Children’s mental health and wellbeing is at the forefront of our school’s curriculum and ethos. Our school recognises the importance of a whole-school approach in teaching PSHE Education in order to develop skills and
attributes such as resilience, self-esteem, risk-management, teamworking and critical thinking. we use the Gem Project to support this element of the curriculum for life!
- Using the Coram Life Education SCARF planning and resources, pupils will be taught to:
Listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers;
Ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge;
Articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions;
Give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings;
Maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments;
Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas;
Speak audibly and fluently with an increasing command of Standard English;
Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates;
Gain, maintain and monitor the interest of the listener(s);
Consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others;
Select and use appropriate registers for effective communication. - Use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary;
Knowledge Maps
impact
The Subject Leader for PSHE Education, in conjunction with the Curriculum lead and the Headteacher, is responsible for monitoring the planning and delivery of PSHE Education at Simonstone. The Subject Leader supports colleagues in the teaching of PSHE by providing them with current developments in the subject, sharing the subject’s action plans and aims and modelling exemplary practice. monitoring consists of:
Pupil voice
parental questionnaire
Lesson observations
Walking journey's
We also monitor the impact and teaching of British Values, Protected Characteristics and Christian Values along with how these link with our PSHE teaching.
The subject is assessed through careful observations and pupil discussions and recorded termly. Self regulation is used in every year group consistently to support well being and daily mood.
