Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education

Intent

Our PSHE curriculum is designed to ensure that all pupils leave St Gabriel’s CofE Academy with the skills, knowledge and understanding to flourish in all aspects of their life. The curriculum is designed to positively shape our children into happy, safe and fulfilled people who will make a positive contribution to Modern Britain both within their local community and the wider world. In addition, learning in PSHE aims to support the principles of Safeguarding, Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural (SMSC) development and understanding fundamental British Values. Our curriculum is designed to meet the needs of our children in their current context and to also prepare them to flourish in other contexts as they change and develop throughout their lives. Our PSHE curriculum also incorporates an age-appropriate understanding of RSE, as set out in the statutory guidance, enabling all children to be safe and to understand and develop healthy relationships both now and in their future lives.

Implementation

PSHE is taught discretely across a series of weekly lessons. The school has developed its own bespoke curriculum to provide the best quality education for the needs of the pupils. Using accredited content provided by the PSHE association, the curriculum has been designed as a whole school approach. It provides support for children's physical and mental wellbeing as well as their understanding of the wider world.

Our curriculum is a spiral curriculum with progression build in year on year. Our learning is separated into three key overarching topics: 'Relationships', 'Living in the Wider World' and 'Health and Wellbeing'. In Reception, this topics are visited every term and the curriculum has been designed in order to support our children's development towards their early learning goals. From Year 1 to Year 6, each topic explore three separate sub-topics that delve into particular aspects of these subject areas. These are:

Relationships

Respecting Ourselves and Others
Families and Friendships
Safe Relationships

Living in the Wider World

Belonging to a Community
Media Literacy and Digital Resilience
Money and Work

Health and Wellbeing

Keeping Safe
Physical Health and Mental Wellbeing
Growing and Changing

Lessons have a clear structure which guides the learning and understanding of children. Children learn through a variety of engaging activities including through discussing given scenario; creating information posters; role-playing etc. Content in lessons is depersonalised to enable children to fully participate safely. This is done through the use of fictional characters, imagined situations and puppets. Agreed rules are also shared regularly with children to maintain a depersonalised experience to learning.

Impact

Assessment for learning strategies are employed to enable teachers to identify the strength of understanding of the children. Teachers will use this information to make adaptations to their planning to meet the needs of the children. Teachers may also change the focus of learning during a lesson to ensure children are supported and challenged. Children regularly complete self-assessments reflecting on their learning in the lesson using PSHE journals. Whole class progression is captured through year group floor books. School leaders monitor pupil’s books termly and hold individual termly meetings with all teachers to ensure they are supported to provide a high-quality PSHE curriculum. In addition, children’s views and understanding are ascertained through pupil interviews/surveys.

Long-term Plan

Medium-term Plan

Skill Progression