PSHE

At Bishop Martin CE Primary School our Guiding LIGHT Curriculum is built around the National Curriculum, enriched to reflect the children and community we teach.

We strive to provide a curriculum that is underpinned by our Christian Values, which are embedded in the life and work of our school, and to allow all our children to 'Let their Light Shine'.

Let Your Light Shine Before Others So They May See Your Good Deeds' (Matthew 5.16)

National Curriculum

Personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education is an important and necessary part of all pupils’ education. All schools should teach PSHE, drawing on good practice, and this expectation is outlined in the introduction to the proposed new national curriculum.

PSHE is a non-statutory subject. To allow teachers the flexibility to deliver high-quality PSHE we consider it unnecessary to provide new standardised frameworks or programmes of study. PSHE can encompass many areas of study. Teachers are best placed to understand the needs of their pupils and do not need additional central prescription.

However, while we believe that it is for schools to tailor their local PSHE programme to reflect the needs of their pupils, we expect schools to use their PSHE education programme to equip pupils with a sound understanding of risk and with the knowledge and skills necessary to make safe and informed decisions.

Schools should 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.

Intent

Our PSHE curriculum has been designed to provide a unique and inspiring curriculum that is created to suit our children, their learning, and their future. We prepare them to be a member of a class, school, local community as well as preparing them for their future role in modern Britain and as a global citizen.

PSHE is an embedded component of the whole school curriculum and is at the core of our school ethos. It has particularly strong links with our RE curriculum and our Christian School Values. The PSHE Curriculum at Bishop Martin C.E Primary is bespoke. It provides a broad, unique, and exciting curriculum that is rich in stimulus encourages and supports our children to become confident, caring, respectful and responsible citizens. We provide a quality education that is inclusive and equips all our children to be lifelong learners.

Through our PSHE Curriculum we aim to:

Promote the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental, emotional, and physical development of our children.

Give our children the knowledge, skills and understanding that will prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences that they already face and for those they will face in adult life, enabling them to become healthy, independent and responsible members of society.

Provide information about keeping healthy and safe, mentally, emotionally, and physically and enable them to feel positive about themselves, accept and embrace change and enjoy healthy, safe, responsible, and fulfilled lives.

Encourage our children to understand how all actions have consequences and how they can make informed choices to help themselves, and others as they live in the wider world.

Implementation

Our PSHE curriculum intends to ensure that children will have developed an understanding of how to keep themselves healthy and safe, mentally, emotionally, and physically. They will have the knowledge, skills and understanding that will prepare them for opportunities, responsibilities and experiences they face now and in the future enabling them to be healthy, independent, and responsible members of society. Children’s knowledge and skills will develop progressively as they move through the school and will prepare them to access the PSHE curriculum in secondary education. This progression has been mapped out in detail in the school’s PSHE progression document.

Curriculum Planning

The 'Kapow Primary Scheme of Work' is a whole school approach that 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 Stage 1 and 2.

EYFS:

Self – regulation

Building relationships

Managing self

Key Stage 1 and 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. The lessons are based upon the statutory requirements for Relationships and Health education, but where our lessons go beyond these requirements (primarily in the Citizenship and Economic wellbeing areas) they refer to the PSHE Association Programme of Study which is recommended by the DfE. Sex education has been included in line with the DfE recommendations and is covered in Year 6 of our scheme.

KAPOW lessons follow the following structure:

Attention Grabber – To capture the children’s interest.

Main Event – To explore and discuss the concept.

Activity – Gives the children the opportunity to share their own responses.

Wrapping Up – Gather back together and reflect on key questions.

PSHE Subject Overview

Impact

We monitor the impact of our PSHE Curriculum by:

Observing children at work, individually, in pairs, in a group and in class during whole class teaching.

Using differentiated, open-ended questions that require children to explain and unpick their understanding - this then enables teachers to analyse errors and pick up on misconceptions.

Facilitating and listening to discussions

Providing effective feedback to engage children with their learning and to provide opportunities for self-assessment.

Asking questions and listening to answers

Including retrieval practice within each lesson.

Ongoing assessment informs future planning and discussions, and lesson are adapted if needed. At the end of each half term/unit, children complete a reflection task which incorporates all of their learning across the half-term. The KAPOW scheme incorporates a robust assessment. Teachers use the assessment grids to assess whether each child has achieved the expected standard (EXP), is working towards the expected standard (WTS) or working at a greater depth standard (GDS) in relation to age related expectations (ARE). This information is then recorded in an assessment grid along with any gaps in learning which can then be addressed in future lessons. This, formative and summative assessment, then allows the teachers to make a judgement at the end the year, which is then reported to parents/carers.