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. We use the PSHE education curriculum model and scheme of work developed by the PSHE Association, the national body for Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education.

The programme:

Aligns with statutory Department for Education requirements for Relationships, Sex and Health Education.
Provides a structured and progressive curriculum that builds on prior learning year by year.
Supports pupils' physical health, mental wellbeing, safety, relationships and understanding of the wider world.
Uses resources that have been quality assured by subject specialists and educational professionals.
Includes teaching on non-statutory economic wellbeing and careers education.

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. From this, it allows the PSHE Association's curriculum model to be tailored to our school's context and ensures that adaptations can be made to 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. Whole class progression is captured through class 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.