RSHE stands for Relationships, Sex & Health Education. Relationships and health are usually covered in ‘PSHE’ lessons, in general everyday classroom learning, in assemblies and sometimes in science (e.g. healthy eating).
PSHE stands for Personal, Social, Health and Economic education. It is an important part of your child’s national curriculum learning. Personal, social and health and economic education, or PSHE, aims to give children the knowledge, skills and understanding to lead confident, healthy and independent lives.
INTENT
At Forest View Primary School, the intent of our PSHE curriculum is to deliver a curriculum which is accessible to all, and that will maximise the outcomes for every child. This will ensure that they know more, remember more and understand more.
PSHE is embedded in all that we do and enables our children to become independent, responsible, healthy and confident members of society. Our PSHE curriculum has been built with the aim to support the development of the ‘whole child’, by helping them to understand how they are developing personally and socially as well as promoting their social, mental and physical development. Children will be able to develop the ability to tackle the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up.
Through our discreet lessons as well as a wider cross curricular approach to teaching PSHE, children are taught how to keep themselves safe, physically and emotionally. This results in the acquisition of knowledge and skills, which enables children to access the wider curriculum.
We provide our children with opportunities for them to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse society. They are also encouraged to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community.
IMPLEMENTATION
At Forest View, our PSHE programme of learning and wider curriculum will enable children to meet the End of Key Stage Statements as set out in the Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education Guidance 2019.
Our PSHE programme is an integral part of our whole school PSHE education provision and is designed to meet the unique needs of pupils, not only through the One Life spiral Scheme of Work and North Tyneside Relationship and Sex Education Scheme, but also through our wider PSHE curriculum offer.
One Life uses open learning activities which suit the ethos of PSHE in our school. All learning activities used in One Life allow opportunities for discussion and debate. Open learning activities provide an opportunity for children to develop their skills, knowledge and understanding and attitudes. The North Tyneside Relationship and Sex Education Scheme includes references to all types of relationships, including same sex, in order to prepare children for living in modern society and also to help protect their mental health. The teaching of these issues is both sensitive and age appropriate in approach.
Our ever expanding wider provision of PSHE promotes opportunities to link British Values and Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural (SMSC) responsibilities. Along with our broad and balanced curriculum, there are overlaps with other subjects, for example Computing (E-safety), Science (recycling), PE (leading healthy active lives). Therefore, flexibility in the timetable needs to be accounted for as objectives for PSHE education will be met outside of the allocated timetable slot.
Flexibility in the timetable is also important to allow us to respond to local/national/global events that may occur and allow us to respond to any such event in an age appropriate way. The distribution of lessons complements key campaigns throughout the year, such as Anti-Bulling Week and Mental Health Week.
IMPACT
At Forest View, our spiral PSHE curriculum and wider provision ensures that children will be equipped to support their decision making in regards to their own wellbeing, health and relationships.
Children will start their journey with us treating each other with kindness and respect. Our whole school vision to nurture children’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural development supports them to foster good relationships between all, in line with the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. Our spiral curriculum allows children to build upon their understanding of British Values in an age appropriate way, in order for them to become positive citizens in a forever changing community and ultimately preparing them for life and work in modern Britain.
By the end of each key stage, children will have had the opportunities to meet the end of key stage statements in line with the statutory guidance outlined in the Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education.
Children will have enhanced knowledge and understanding through real life experiences. Our carefully selected external visitors will promote the teaching of different aspects of our PSHE curriculum, such as: puberty talks (School Nurse), staying safe within the community (Road Safety) and being healthy responsible members of society (Sports Development, Red Cross) to name a few.
Ultimately, our overarching aims and objectives in supporting our children to become healthy and responsible members of society, enables pupils to develop the ability to collaborate, build upon their emotional security, improve concentration due to a focus on their wellbeing as well as ensuring children are self-reliant with an understanding of self-care and nutrition. We aim for children to end their journey at Forest View, moving onto the next stage of their education with self-confidence and a high sense of self-worth.
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