Intent
At Wolsingham Primary School, our PSHE curriculum aims to equip children with the knowledge and skills to be confident, responsible, and well-rounded individuals. They will learn to manage their emotions, build self-esteem, form positive relationships, and handle conflicts constructively. The curriculum promotes healthy lifestyle choices, mental well-being, and the importance of seeking support when needed. Children will also develop an understanding of their role in the community, value diversity, and engage in discussions about social issues. Additionally, they will gain financial literacy skills to manage money responsibly and appreciate the value of resilience and independence in facing life’s challenges.
The PSHE & RSE curriculum develops the priorities for pupils at Wolsingham Primary School in the following ways:
Basic skills – Through carefully planned lessons pupils are given the opportunity to develop their communication and social skills. Computing skills are also developed through the understanding of issues surrounding e-safety.
Resilience and Perseverance – Pupils are encouraged to listen to others and talk things through and develop an understanding of the issues that arise in their everyday lives. They are taught how to cope and deal with situations that arise in their lives daily and in the future.
Social Awareness – There is a great emphasis on being socially aware and developing an understanding of their own and others thoughts and feelings. Pupils are taught to understand and accept differences, other cultures and communities and to develop safe and healthy relationships.
Knowledge – Lessons are carefully planned and structured in order to allow all pupils to feel comfortable and safe. The more sensitive issues in RSHE are planned carefully allowing pupils to feel as comfortable as possible when being covered. Pupils are regularly encouraged to involve themselves in various types of discussions, role-playing of scenarios and working in pairs and groups.
Implementation
- The PSHE curriculum is divided into three core themes: Health and Wellbeing, Relationships, and Living in the Wider World.
- Pupils will explore a balanced range of overarching concepts, including:
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- Identity
- Relationships
- A healthy, balanced lifestyle
- Identification of risk and safety
- Diversity and equality
- Rights, responsibilities, and consent
- Change and resilience
- Power
- Career
- At Wolsingham Primary, PSHE is a vital part of primary education and is taught at least weekly, with opportunities to make cross-curricular links whenever possible.
- Staff may also teach PSHE in response to issues arising within their own class to ensure relevant and timely learning.
- PSHE supports the development of children’s values, preparing them to be positive citizens in a dynamic community.
- It is an integral part of school assemblies and collective worship, where children’s spiritual, moral, social, and cultural curiosity is stimulated, challenged, and nurtured..
Impact
- The PSHE curriculum will help pupils at Wolsingham Primary to live healthy, safe, productive, capable, responsible and balanced lives.
- It encourages them to be enterprising and supports them in making effective transitions, positive learning and choices and in achieving economic, physical and emotional wellbeing.
- The curriculum also provides opportunities for the children to reflect on, and clarify their own values and attitudes and explore the complex and sometimes conflicting range of values and attitudes they encounter now and in the future.
- To develop resilience and to provide strategies to prepare them for adulthood.
PHSE and RSE in the Early Years
A well rounded child in the early years will demonstrate levels of emotional stability, being able to talk about and regulate their emotions, expressing their feelings. They will be given opportunities to confidently talk about their family life, customs and traditions, knowing what makes them unique, comparing similarities and differences. They will learn to consider how their actions may affect others and how to make the right decisions. An early year’s child will understand what behaviour is acceptable in different social situations and how to adhere to boundaries and routines set, learning how to solve their own problems without aggression. Mistakes will be seen as a learning opportunity with in the early years. Children will be confident in their setting selecting and using resources independently, showing respect for their setting and resources. Children’s confidence and personalities will develop and blossom over their time in the early years, promoting a can do attitude. Children will be given lots of opportunities to experience different social situations, developing confidence and how to adapt their behaviour to different situations. Children’s relationships with adults and children will be nurtured and extended throughout their time in the early years. They will experience the feelings associated with friendships, and how to play with others, responding to what is happening/being said. Through modelling they will learn how to play cooperatively with others, taking turns.
Children will become independent in their self-care, being able to express their own needs, wants and interests, attend to toileting needs and manage their own hygiene. They will be encouraged to dress and undress themselves and through outdoor provision, and physical development opportunities. A lot of learning in the early years takes place through purposeful play, both indoors and outdoors.