PSHE

Intent of PSHE - Health and Relationships Education 

PSHE Intent Statement 

At St. Peter’s our vision for PSHE is that all children develop the knowledge and skills they need to keep themselves healthy, safe and prepared for life in our ever-changing world. We aim to develop children’s confidence and resilience to enable them to make positive choices in their lives.

Our PSHE curriculum is tailored to meet our children’s needs and through the topics -

Relationships

• Families and close positive relationships
• Friendships
• Managing hurtful behaviour and bullying
• Safe relationships
• Respecting self and others

Health and Wellbeing 

• Healthy lifestyles (Physical wellbeing)
• Mental health
• Ourselves, growing and changing
• Keeping safe
• Drugs, alcohol and tobacco 

Living in the Wider World

• Shared responsibilities
• Communities 
• Media literacy and digital resilience
• Economic wellbeing: Money
• Economic wellbeing: aspirations, work and career

Through these topics children will have the opportunities to explore their attitudes, values and beliefs about issues. They are taught skills, language and strategies that they will need to manage these issues if they ever need to.

Implementation of PSHE - Relationship and Health Education 

DfE statutory guidance states that from September 2020, all Primary Schools must deliver Relationships Education.

KS1 & 2 Five Topics:

• Families and people who care for me
• Caring Friendships 
• Respectful relationships
• Online relationships
• Being safe

DfE statutory guidance states that from September 2020, all Primary Schools must deliver Physical Health and Wellbeing Education (Health Education).

KS1 & 2 Eight Topics:

• Mental wellbeing
• Internet safety and harms
• Physical health and fitness
• Healthy eating
• Drugs, alcohol and tobacco
• Health and prevention
• Basic first aid
• Changing adolescent body

We will do this by using the question-based model from the PSHE Association to cover the following topics:

Relationships 

• Families and close positive relationships
• Friendships
• Managing hurtful behaviour and bullying
• Safe relationships
• Respecting self and others

Health and Wellbeing 

• Healthy lifestyles (Physical wellbeing)
• Mental health
• Ourselves, growing and changing
• Keeping safe
• Drugs, alcohol and tobacco 

Living in the Wider World

• Shared responsibilities
• Communities 
• Media literacy and digital resilience
• Economic wellbeing: Money
• Economic wellbeing: aspirations, work and career

These topics have been mapped to the statutory guidance to ensure full coverage across Key Stage 1 and 2. In addition to statutory content, we include non-statutory topics that support the personal development and wellbeing of our pupils.

As a school, we have chosen not to teach sex education beyond the statutory requirements. If questions arise, they will be addressed in an age-appropriate manner, following a discussion with parents to determine whether they prefer to answer the question at home or would like the school to respond.

PSHE - Relationship and Health Education Curriculum

• Relationship Education is highlighted in pink.
• Health Education is highlighted in green.
• Living in the Wider World is highlighted in blue.

Some of the objectives from Health Education and Relationship Education overlap in these topics but the colour indicated the main focus of the topic.

See documents - PSHE Key Stage 1 Overview, PSHE Key Stage 2 Overview to see how the objectives are covered in each year group

See document - How PSHE Links to Statutory Guidance to see how the objectives from the question-based model from the PSHE Association link to the statutory objective and what year groups cover them.

We recognise that our school community is continually evolving, and we are committed to addressing any relevant topics, issues or concerns that may arise. PSHE will remain flexible and responsive, ensuring children are supported to understand and navigate the challenges and opportunities of an ever-changing world. Therefore, topics may move or be changed depending of the needs of each cohort.

Parental Engagement

Parents and carers have been informed about and consulted on the policy through parent discussion with one family and then a consultation letter that was sent out which they were asked to respond to.

The policy is available to parents and carers through the school website. Parent and carer information meetings and updates will be planned when appropriate. Parents and carers are informed of the content of the lessons by having access to the policy and curriculum overviews on the school website. There is no right to withdraw from Relationships Education curriculum or Health Education as this content is statutory.

Timetabling PSHE - Relationship and Health Education 

We allocate 1 hour per week curriculum time to PSHE - Health Education and Relationship Education. This takes place as a stand-alone lesson however PSHE Health Education and Relationship Education could take part at any time of the school day. When PSHE topics have been discussed at other times they will be recorded in the class book.

Our PSHE Health Education and Relationship Education provision is further enriched by theme days, school trips, enrichment activities, breakfast club, after school clubs, Worship and all areas of the curriculum. Where appropriate evidence of this can be shown in the class book.

Who will be responsible for the curriculum?

The PSHE Health Education and Relationship Education curriculum will be led by Katy Gardner, the PSHE lead. It is taught by the class teachers, where possible. It is supported by Teaching Assistants, where possible.

The school supports staff delivering PSHE Health Education and Relationship Education to access appropriate CPD. We have a service level agreement with Lancashire which allows the PSHE lead to attend three network meetings per year and have support from the PSHE Consultant. The information from these courses and support is then shared with staff at staff meetings or as one to one support if needed.

Impact of PSHE - Relationship and Health Education 

How will we assess this learning?

We assess pupils’ learning through activities at the beginning of a lesson or a series of lessons to establish their baseline and then their endpoint to show individual progress. This is evidenced by work or photographs in the class books or by work in children’s individual journals. We may also carry out assessment-based questions at the end of each unit that can be discussed as a whole class or carried out in smaller groups. This assessment can also be used to inform next steps in planning.

How will we involve and consult pupils?

Pupils have been involved in the creation of this policy through discussions in PSHE lessons with their class teachers and questionnaires that have been discussed with KS2 classes. Pupils' needs and issues they are facing will be identified by knowing our families and what needs they have. Also using data about health etc. and from CPOM as mentioned above. Pupils' views of what is currently being taught and how, will help to inform the curriculum when the assessment-based questions are discussed at the end of each unit.

Pupils have opportunities to review and reflect on their learning during lessons through questioning and discussing the work they have completed in their journals. Their journals will show assessment at the start of a lesson or series of lessons and then the endpoint.

Pupils in KS2 have said that in PSHE lessons they want to learn more about:

• Keeping safe online
• Mindfulness
• Growing up and changing
• Media influence and how it influences online bullying
• Careers
• Finance/Money 
• Mental Health
• Health
• How to accept other people
• How to respond to bullying

All these topics will be covered in our curriculum.

Monitoring, Reporting and Evaluation

The Head Teacher/SLT and PSHE lead will look at class books and individual journals with the pupil’s permission. Support will be given to staff with planning and resources. All staff have access to the PSHE Association and the quality assured resources they provide. The PSHE lead will carry out staff and pupil questionnaires to ensure staff are confident and comfortable teaching the topics and pupils know what PSHE is, what it covers and they can talk about their progress in the subject.

All staff are to use the question-based model from the PSHE Association as their long-term plan. They also have access to the KS1 and KS2 overview documents and the document that links the statutory guidance to the question-based model. New staff or supply staff will be given this information to ensure the correct curriculum is delivered.