Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) at Park

 

INTENT

At Park, we have designed our PSHE curriculum to:

  • Meets the requirements of the National Curriculum, Early Years Framework and statutory guidance from the DfE

  • Be accessible and ambitious, ensuring all pupils can participate and achieve their potential as kind, thoughtful and responsible individuals

  • Develop the knowledge, skills and attributes pupils need to lead confident, healthy and fulfilling lives

  • Helps pupils understand themselves and others, form positive relationships and make informed choices that support their wellbeing and the wellbeing of those around them

  • Promote emotional literacy, resilience and a sense of personal agency, helping pupils to approach life’s challenges with maturity and compassion

  • Encourage pupils to think with empathy, integrity and self-awareness, recognising how their actions and attitudes contribute to our community

  • Develop respect for diversity, managing change and understanding their rights and responsibilities

  • Be prepared to navigate an increasingly complex world with confidence and care



IMPLEMENTATION

RSE & PSHE is guided by the DfE’s statutory guidance for Relationships Education and Health Education (2019) and informed by key non-statutory frameworks, including the PSHE Association Programme of Study and the DfE’s non-statutory Citizenship curriculum. Our RSE and PSHE curriculum is structured around five key areas:

  • Families and relationships

  • Health and wellbeing

  • Citizenship 

  • Economic wellbeing

  • Safety and the changing body.

These key areas are revisited through each year group, ensuring clear progression, coherence and balance. In Year 6, pupils also explore an additional key area, Identity, to support their transition to secondary school. This progression can be seen in our long-term plan below:

We have an integrated whole school approach to teaching RSE and PSHE which begins right from Early Years. Each class has a weekly session using resources from the Kapow scheme of work to support our delivery of the RSE and PSHE curriculum.

In addition to the weekly sessions, Park Primary is also proud to be a Forest School offering sessions in the school grounds and in our local parks. During these lessons the children not only learn about nature but they build relationships, increase their resilience and learn to appreciate the world in which they live. They consider how to keep themselves and others safe at all times whilst learning valuable life skills, which they would not ordinarily gain within a classroom environment.


Statutory Guidance - Relationships and Health Education (RHE)

Part of our RSE and PSHE curriculum includes the statutory requirements to teach children about healthy relationships, changes during puberty and how babies are made.  This is carefully planned out to ensure that what we teach is appropriate for the age and stage of your child and always taught with sensitivity.  Please click below to see what is taught in each year group.

RSE curriculum - INFORMATION for families
RSE Parent Guidance - detailed breakdown by year group

If you have any questions or concerns about what we are teaching, would like to see the materials we will use with your child, or withdraw your child from these sessions, please call the office to book an appointment to discuss this.

The statutory guidance for Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education can be found below by clicking the link:

DfE guidance for relationship and health education



IMPACT

To be sure that our curriculum is working for your child, we regularly check whether they have gained the knowledge set out in our PSHE curriculum.  Within lessons, we set up short activities to check what they have understood and remembered.  Where children show they have not understood or remembered some key learning, we will make adaptations for them within the lesson and change our planning for future lessons to address this and help them remember more.

At the end of the unit, we check whether children have remembered all of the key learning for the unit.  We make a summary judgement as to whether they have met Park’s expectations and learned what we expect them to.  We will inform you of your child’s PSHE attainment in their end of year report.  We will also let their next teacher know, so that they can plan to meet your child’s needs in the next class.

Our PSHE subject leader and senior leadership team regularly review the assessments made in PSHE and visit their lessons and talk to children to check whether our curriculum is working to help your child master key personal, social and health understanding.  We use this to reflect on what has been taught, how it has been taught and make further improvements to our curriculum.