Personal, Social, Health & Economic Education (P.S.H.E)
Purpose of study
To embrace the challenges of creating a happy and successful adult life, pupils need knowledge that will enable them to make informed decisions about their wellbeing, health and relationships and to build their self-efficacy. Pupils can also put this knowledge into practice as they develop the capacity to make sound decisions when facing risks, challenges and complex contexts. Everyone faces difficult situations in their lives. These subjects can support young people to develop resilience, to know how and when to ask for help, and to know where to access support.
Our School Vision for PSHE
At Perryfields Primary School, Relationship and Sex Education is taught within a broader, carefully planned Personal, Social, Health and Relationship Education curriculum (PSHE), it aims to gradually and appropriately prepare children for adult life, and ensuring the development of the personal skills needed by pupils if they are to establish and maintain relationships both now and in their future. Pupils are encouraged to take part in a wide range of activities and experiences across and beyond the curriculum, contributing fully to the life of their school and communities. In doing so they learn to recognise their own worth, work well with others and become increasingly responsible for their own actions, learning, health and wellbeing. Pupils reflect on their experiences and understand how they are developing personally and socially, tackling many of the spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up. They also find out about the main political and social institutions that affect their lives and about their responsibilities, rights and duties as individuals and members of communities. The curriculum, reflecting local needs, is also designed to build students understanding of how to keep themselves safe both now and in the future.
EYFS
Pupils learn:
We teach PSHE and citizenship in reception classes as an integral part of the topic work covered during the year. As the reception class is part of the Foundation Stage of the National Curriculum, we relate the PSHE and citizenship aspects of the children’s work to the objectives set out in the Early Learning Goals (ELGs). Our teaching in PSHE and citizenship matches the aim of developing a child’s personal, emotional and social development as set out in the ELGs. We also support citizenship education in reception classes when we teach ‘how to develop a child’s knowledge and understanding of the world’.
Key Stage One and Key Stage Two
Our PSHE curriculum builds on the skills that pupils started to acquire during the Early Years Foundation stage (EYFS) to develop effective relationships, assume greater personal responsibility and manage personal safety, including online. PSHE education helps pupils to manage the physical and emotional changes at puberty, introduces them to a wider world and enables them to make an active contribution to their communities.
By the end of Key Stage 1 pupils should:
– Know the difference between right and wrong
– Share
– Be responsible for their own actions
– Listen to other people’s point of view
– Keep themselves safe
– Personal hygiene
– Healthy eating – balanced diet
– Exercise
– Taking care of the environment
– Respect for other people’s property
– Stranger danger/personal safety
– Awareness of adult help, eg Police etc.
– Medication/drugs awareness
– Respect for other people as individuals (eg special needs etc.)
– Know that they are Sandwell citizens
By the end of Key Stage 2 pupils should:
– Be independent
– Able to communicate
– Make informed choices
– Respect for all
– Have an awareness of teenage pregnancy/drug dependence/smoking
– Listen to all
– An awareness of puberty and surrounding issues
Greater responsibility
- jobs around school
- own equipment
- learning
Secondary transfer – confidence/knowledge
Realistic life goals – ambitions/how to get there
Peer pressure – strategies to cope with
Emerging political awareness
Social awareness – relationship and family
Community – respect for Police (not threatened), outside agencies, hospitals etc.
How we Achieve this
At Perryfields Primary School we teach PSHE and citizenship 1 hour every week and in a variety of ways through discreet curriculum time for topics such as sex or drugs education.
Teaching PSHE and citizenship through and in other curriculum/subject areas and activities and school events e.g. residential experiences, special days/weeks/visitors in school which provide opportunities for children to plan and work together, and develop and maintain relationships under different circumstances.
A combination of these are included in our whole school approach.
Additional Offer
In addition to our PSHE curriculum, we supplement our Childrens’ learning with visits on sensitive topics from Loudmouth Theatre group, school nurses, PC Treasure and have regular assemblies linked to supporting the curriculum in a wider group.
We also have opportunities for parents to join us to celebrate Childrens’, achievements and work alongside children in the classroom environment. Class assemblies or exhibitions provide further opportunities for children to develop their confidence, self-esteem and share their amazing achievements.
Children from Year 2 upwards also have opportunities to attend residentials which enhance PSHE skills of resilience, confidence and social interactions in new environments.
Website links to support the subject
PSHE Association | Charity and membership body for PSHE education
Improving children’s and young peoples mental health – Place2Be