St Winifred’s Catholic  Primary School

 

Please click on these links to see our PHSE curriculum for each year group:

PSHE Statement of Intent

PSHE Curriculum

PSHE Statement of Intent

Intent

At St Winifred’s Catholic Primary School, we want our children to be happy, confident, well-rounded individuals with a love of learning and life. We recognise that PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education) makes a significant contribution to developing the values, skills and knowledge that pupils need to thrive as individuals at school, in the wider community and globally. PSHE helps to prepare our pupils to manage many of the most critical opportunities, challenges and responsibilities they will face growing up. With this in mind, we cover a broad and rich PSHE curriculum (please refer to the PSHE curriculum maps for more details).

 

Implementation

To ensure coverage and progression, we have a PSHE curriculum map that integrates all of the national expectations: being healthy, well-being, caring for others, staying safe and the wider world. Each year group covers these topics through lessons and resources that are age appropriate and adjusted to ensure they every child can access the learning. Each year, their knowledge builds on the progression from prior years, and they revisit key ideas to embed and deepen their understanding. We use a number of approaches: teaching through our core subjects, discreet PSHE lessons, school trips, specialist visitors, class discussions, assemblies, performances, debates and play.

 

Playtime, is a rich opportunity to have fun, exercise be social, develop empathy and learn the art of negotiation. As part of our commitment to nurturing confident and capable children, we have well-trained playground supervisors who are committed to supporting the children to solve any disagreements restoratively. This means that the children are encouraged to prevent disputes and build better relationships by communicating effectively and positively. Research has shown that children who are party to the restorative approach have fewer disputes, develop their empathy and build confidence. Further to this, we have trained students who are also on hand to support others.

 

To enrich their PSHE learning, we have specialist visitors, focussed weeks and trips: wellbeing week, anti-bullying week, career visits, money workshops, and MPs and RSPCA visits (please refer to the curriculum maps for more examples). These contribute to raising the profile of key areas in PSHE and provide the children with essential social and emotional learning opportunities, and extend their understanding of the wider world.

 

We know that the world is an unpredictable place.  As such, we understand how important it is that PSHE lessons are also responsive and so, whenever possible, we provide opportunities for the children to express themselves and discuss issues, concerns and current affairs as they occur.

 

Impact

When children leave St Winifred’s, we expect them to have the following knowledge and skills:

 

  • To be socially and morally prepared for the wider world.
  • To have tolerance, patience and appreciation of others.
  • To be able to recognise, develop and maintain healthy relationships.
  • To know how to deal with challenges and success.
  • To have self-belief and determination.
  • To be proud and dignified custodians of our world.
  • To know how to take care of their well-being.
  • To know how to stay safe- both online and in the world we live in.
  • To know that we are all unique and special.
  • To be able to develop their personal role in society.
  • To know how to avoid and resolve conflict.
  • To be able to show respect to themselves and to others.

 

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PSHE Policy

Introduction

At St Winifred’s, the PSHE programme of study brings together citizenship with personal well-being through a values-based education. It is structured to support the school in developing a coherent whole-school approach to personal, social, health and economic well-being (PSHE). Relationship, sex education is set within PSHE and the RSE policy is to be delivered as part of the PSHE framework. Please refer to the separate RSE policy for more details.

The PSHE curriculum aims to:

  • promote the physical, social and emotional well-being of pupils;
  • provide sex and relationships education;
  • promote community cohesion;
  • achieve the aims of the whole curriculum.

Through PSHE, we endeavour to foster the notions of responsibility and empowerment to promote a sense of achievement and to enhance self-confidence. PSHE education is guided by the values of:

  • Honesty;
  • Kindness;
  • Trust;
  • Responsibility;
  • Friendship;
  • Self-control;
  • Empathy;
  • Respect;
  • Tolerance.

Aims:

PSHE education at St Winifred’s aims:

  • to give pupils the knowledge and develop the self-esteem, confidence and self-awareness to make informed choices and decisions;
  • to encourage and support the development of social skills and social awareness;
  • to enable pupils to make sense of their own personal and social experiences;
  • to promote responsible attitudes towards the maintenance of good physical and mental health, supported by a safe and healthy lifestyle;
  • to enable effective interpersonal relationships and develop a caring attitude towards others;
  • to encourage a caring attitude towards and responsibility for the environment;
  • to help our pupils understand and manage their feelings;
  • to understand how society works and the rights and responsibilities involved.
  • to develop financial and political literacy
  • to develop E-safety

Content:

Foundation Stage-

In the Early Years Foundation Stage, PSHE is encouraged through the ‘Personal, Social and Emotional Development’ curriculum.

PSHE is about making connections and is strongly linked to play. PSHE is taught through activities that are part of topics, as well as on an individual basis to develop personal skills such as dressing, feeding and toileting. Positive experiences are built through daily opportunities to share and enjoy a range of different activities. The children are given the opportunity to engage in social activities, as members of a small group or occasionally during whole school activities.

KS1 and KS2 –

The PSHE curriculum divides the year into values and PSHE may be linked to these values or taught on a more individual basis to promote necessary skills.

The children are encouraged to engage in activities that promote an understanding of themselves as growing and changing individuals, and as members of a wider community, based on their own first hand experiences. These activities also encourage pupils to understand how their choices and behaviours can affect others. The children are encouraged to play and learn alongside, and then collaboratively with, their peers. They may use their personal and social skills to develop or extend these activities. The children are also given the opportunity to make choices about their health and environment and are encouraged to develop a caring attitude to others

The PSHE framework is flexible. The guidelines are not designed to be taught sequentially and will be incorporated into other subject areas (e.g. science) and reordered, combined and revisited as appropriate.

 We will:

  • Set suitable learning targets
  • Respond to diverse learning needs
  • Overcome potential barriers to learning
  • Promote continuity and progression

Implementation:

PSHE will be delivered by the class teacher. PSHE may be delivered using a multi-sensory approach (for students working at P4 and below) by a teacher or TA. Visiting professionals often provide talks/workshops to pupils to further deepen the children’s learning. See the PSHE Enrichment map for more details.

 Whole School Approaches

 PSHE values are introduced in and explored within both whole school and Key Stage assemblies. In addition to this, PSHE is delivered through a range of whole school activities. Pupils are given opportunities to join in and contribute to local and national initiatives e.g. anti-bullying week, community cohesion projects and fund-raising activities. Pupils may take part in school assemblies, be elected onto the Pupil Councils and are encouraged to express their opinions. Pupils are offered a wide range of opportunities to enhance their learning and engage with the concepts and content of the subject through learning in other subjects and areas of the curriculum and out-of-school activities.

Assessment:

Learning builds on children’s prior knowledge, and assessment, although not formal, will reflect progression in PSHE learning, not Literacy learning.

 Equal Opportunities:

Within PSHE, staff set high expectations. Each individual is ensured access to a full and varied programme of activities, with opportunities for all pupils to participate fully and effectively, including boys and girls, pupils with diverse additional educational needs, and pupils from all social and cultural backgrounds. Pupils are equally respected for who they are and for the contributions they make regardless of their background. Knowledge, skills and understanding are taught in ways that suit pupils’ current attainment level, and care is taken that all learning is appropriate so that pupils can make progress and show what they can achieve.

In order to provide access to learning and to meet pupils’ diverse needs, specific action will be taken by staff to:

  • create effective learning environments, providing for pupils who need additional support with communication, language and literacy;
  • provide a multi-sensory approach using a variety of media;
  • provide equality of opportunity through teaching approaches and personalisation of tasks and materials as appropriate;
  • use appropriate summative and formative assessment approaches to inform future learning;
  • set targets for learning and behaviour including taking steps to

           help pupils manage their own emotions.

 IT:

IT should be used in PSHE when it has the potential to drive learning and progress. It is useful to record pupils’ learning and performances as they develop, using digital cameras and/or camcorders. Children may also use a video camera or iPad to record these themselves.

Students will be encouraged to:

  • find things out from a variety of sources, selecting and using information to meet their needs;
  • develop their ideas using IT tools to refine their learning and enhance its quality and accuracy.

Children will be taught how to use the internet safely both inside and outside of school. They will be encouraged to ask questions and participate in ongoing conversations about the benefits and dangers of the online world.