PSHE

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Empowering Learners...Growing Minds

 

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Empowering Learners 

At Kidsgrove we strive to ‘Grow Minds …. Empower Learners’ for all children. This mission can only be achieved if we prioritise the PSHE (personal, social, health, and emotional) education of all children in all year groups. We want to give all children the time and the safe space to discuss their personal education each week in school.

Growing Minds

We offer a core PSHE curriculum which covers all areas of personal, social, health, and emotional education required to allow all children the opportunity to thrive in school. Additionally, we offer some non-statutory learning options designed to keep children safe from harm.  We are transparent with our PSHE curriculum, and it is shared with all of our community to ensure that parents are fully aware of the PSHE learning their children is engaging with in school.

At Kidsgrove, we recognise that PSHE needs to be given time and space within the school timetable, but we also recognise that the personal education of our children is a golden thread that runs through our entire curriculum. Our teachers will teach PSHE weekly, but also make the most of every teachable moment in the school day to have honest and respectful conversations that help all our children to thrive.

Implementation 

Our Curriculum

At Kidsgrove we base our curriculum on that of Kapow but personalise to our children and evolving contexts. We teach PSHE weekly across the school with designated time set aside. We use this scheme to ensure PSHE coverage of our entire statutory core PSHE curriculum, but every PSHE lesson is planned and adapted by class teachers to meet the needs of the children in their classrooms. Our PSHE curriculum progression document demonstrates the personal learning journey of a child.

The scheme aims to give children the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that they need to:

Effectively navigate the complexities of life in the 21st Century. The curriculum covers key areas which will support children to make informed choices now and in the future around their health, safety, wellbeing, relationships, and financial matters and will support them in becoming confident individuals and active members of society.

• Kidsgrove Primary’s RSE/PSHE scheme of work covers the Relationships and Health
• Education statutory guidance (as set out by the Department for Education), including the non-statutory sex education.
• Our whole school approach consists of three areas of learning in EYFS: Reception (to match the EYFS Personal, social and emotional development prime area) and five areas of learning across Key stages 1 and 2.

EYFS:

• Self-regulation
• Building relationships
• Managing self

Key stage 1 - 2:

• Families and relationships
• Health and wellbeing
• Safety and the changing body
• Citizenship
• Economic wellbeing

Each area is revisited to allow children to build on prior learning. The lessons also provide a progressive programme.  We ensure that we support equality direct teaching, for example learning about different families, the negative effect of stereotypes and celebrating differences, in addition to the inclusion of diverse teaching resources throughout lessons. There are also meaningful opportunities for cross-curricular learning, in particular with Computing for online safety and Science for growing, nutrition, teeth, diet and lifestyle. 

 

School Values

At Kidsgrove we have created our core values which we aim to instil into all children. Teachers interweave these values into lessons to ensure children have a secure knowledge of what they are and how they make us better members of society.

Strong Foundations

We recognise the positive impact that a strong EYFS foundation has on children’s learning, particularly in the areas such as PHSE. It is on entry into school where the difference in children’s experiences becomes clear.

Vocabulary

We understand the importance of developing pupils emotional literacy.  Throughout PHSE lessons both staff and children use appropriate language, and this vocabulary is identified within the scheme’s progression documents.  Each unit allows children to develop their emotional literacy in an age-appropriate way.

 

School Parliament

At Kidsgrove school we have an active School Parliament where representatives from every year are voted in by their peers.  School parliament allows pupils to put forward their views about the school and make suggestions.  Pupil voice is promoted across all areas of the curriculum.

Red2Blue

Red to Blue is an important part of children’s wellbeing at Kidsgrove.  We believe that for children to learn they must first feel happy and secure.  Staff have made this approach part of their everyday practice with Wellbeing Champions and Red2Blue areas as part of each classroom environment.

Restorative Practice

We use restorative practice as part of promoting behaviour.  We understand that the language we use should have a positive effect on those around us. This is what teaches our children social interactions, emotional literacy and understanding the impact of positive and negative behaviour. The way that we speak to each other and manage conflict os a vital part of children’s learning in PHSE.

Impact

Each lesson features assessment guidance, helping teachers to identify whether pupils have met, exceeded, or failed to meet the desired learning intentions for that lesson. Each unit of lessons comes with an Assessment quiz and Knowledge catcher. The quiz contains 10 questions, nine of which are multiple-choice and used at the end of the unit. Once taught the full scheme, children will have met the objectives set out within the Relationships and Health Education statutory guidance and can utilise their learning within their daily lives, from dealing with friendship issues to resilience to making healthy choices and knowing where and how to get help when needed. ‘

The impact of our PSHE teaching is also assessed through:

• Observations of pupil behaviour, attitudes and conduct.
• Consideration of preparedness for next step/transitions.
• Regular team teaching, informal observation and constructive feedback.
• Regular pupil, parent and teacher voice (quizzes, interviews etc).

 

 

PHSE Documents