PSHE

Physical, Social, Health and Economic Education at John Perryn

 

"PSHE education gives children the knowledge, skills, and attributes they need to keep themselves healthy and safe and to prepare them for life and work in modern Britain."

PSHE Association

Intent

Our school’s PSHE planning is ambitious for all children and is coherently planned and sequenced to ensure that children build on and gain new knowledge and skills as they progress through primary school. Our curriculum is broad and balanced to ensure that children leave primary schools with the knowledge and skills to keep themselves physically healthy, mentally healthy and safe. We also aim to equip our children with the knowledge, skills and attitudes they will need to be active, respectful and engaged citizens of modern Britain.

John Perryn Primary School is a nurturing learning environment in which each child is encouraged to develop their full potential and where their achievements and successes are celebrated and rewarded.

As a school, we understand that children are all individuals and therefore, we aim to encourage mutual respect, responsibility and foster self-esteem in a happy and caring atmosphere. The teaching and learning of PSHE supports and upholds this vision. We aim to provide children a range of opportunities to develop themselves academically and beyond; guiding and supporting them to become thoughtful, responsible and independent citizens.

The PSHE programme is reviewed and evaluated regularly to ensure that provision is relevant, up-to-date and of the highest quality. Our curriculum is split into 3 core themes:

• Health and wellbeing

• Relationships

• Living in the wider world

The aims of PSHE education within John Perryn Primary School are to provide children with:

• accurate and relevant knowledge

• opportunities to create personal understanding

• opportunities to explore and challenge a range of values, attitudes, beliefs, rights and responsibilities

• a range of skills and strategies to live a healthy, safe, fulfilling, responsible and balanced life.

PSHE deals with the diverse beliefs, values and attitudes that individuals and societies hold. We help children to develop themselves, their understanding of the world, and their ability to communicate their feelings. PSHE helps children to acquire values and attitudes, which are necessary if they are to make sense of their experiences within school and life itself, value themselves, respect others, appreciate differences and diversity and feel confident and informed as a Global citizen. Through PSHE, children can develop the confidence, talents and skills, to become effective individuals, motivated learners and active citizens. We want to prepare them for the future by encouraging the development of characteristics for life such as a love of learning, resilience, integrity, team-work, critical thinking and independence. We want to prepare them for the world of work and support them in developing enterprise skills and financial awareness.

Implementation

During Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1, children learn about themselves as developing individuals and as members of their communities, building on their own experiences and on the early learning goals for personal, social and emotional development. They learn the basic rules and skills for keeping themselves healthy and safe and for behaving well. They have opportunities to show they can take some responsibility for themselves and their environment. They begin to learn about their own and other people's feelings and become aware of the views, needs and rights of other children and older people. As members of a class and school community, they learn social skills such as how to share, take turns, play, help others, resolve simple arguments and resist bullying. They begin to take an active part in the life of their school and its neighbourhood.

During Key Stage 2, children learn about themselves as growing and changing individuals with their own experiences and ideas, and as members of their communities. They become more mature, independent and self-confident. They learn about the wider world and the interdependence of communities within it. They develop their sense of social justice and moral responsibility and begin to understand that their own choices and how behaviour can affect local, national or global issues and political and social institutions. They learn how to take part more fully in school and community activities. As they begin to develop into young adults, they face the changes of puberty and transfer to secondary school with support and encouragement from John Perryn Primary School. They learn how to make more confident and informed choices about their health and environment; to take more responsibility, individually and as a group, for their own learning; and to recognise and resist bullying behaviour.

 

NSPCC

Tips and advice to help keep your children safe

Talk PANTS helps children understand that their body belongs to them, and they should tell someone they trust if anything makes them feel upset or worried.

To help you start the conversation with your child, the NSPCC send you helpful tips, advice and materials by email. Click here to go to the website and sign up.

PANTS Rule

To find out more about the PSHE curriculum, please contact either the school office, speak to your child's class teacher or to the PSHE subject coordinator Ms. Lebiszczak.

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